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Tag Archives: Behavioural insights

24 Mar
Law & Politics

Behavioural science helps explain why we miss autocratic red flags

  • 24/03/2025
  • By author-avatar Ralph Hertwig
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The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 paved the way for the democratisation of many eastern European countries and triumphantly ushered i...

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17 Mar
Philosophy & Psychology

The decisions we make

  • 22/03/2025
  • By author-avatar Elizabeth Dangerfield
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The new year is well and truly over, and most Australians are back to their normal lives. Which is another way of saying that the va...

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20 Sep
Business & Economics

What 15 years of research tells us about ‘nudge’ theory’s promises and politics

  • 20/09/2023
  • By author-avatar Stuart Mills
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It's been 15 years since a particular concept of behavioural science went mainstream. 'Nudge theory', the notion that our behavi...

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07 Jan
Science & Health

In defence of nudging

  • 07/01/2023
  • By author-avatar Meg Elkins
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Nudging – the idea that simple changes to how a choice is presented can lead people to make better decisions – has been one of the most...

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27 Dec
Science & Health

Behavioural science and its complications

  • 07/01/2023
  • By author-avatar Noel Turnbull
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Nudge theory offered a wonderful alternative future in which governments could nudge people to do the right thing and thereby avoid pes...

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