Core Insights: Behavioural Science
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
How behavioural science nudges can improve our health
14 Dec 2020
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Send a textIn the final episode of our first Behavioural Science series, Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Ivo Vlaev, Professor of Behavioural...
How do Governments balance saving lives with impacting the economy?
07 Dec 2020
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Send a textCore Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Graham Loomes, Professor of Behavioural Science, about his research on the trade-offs involved in...
How AI can help us build more scenic towns and cities
30 Nov 2020
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Send a textChanuki Seresinhe has been training AI to recognise beautiful scenery and now believes it can be used to help design towns and cities that ...
How neuroscience can now predict our decisions
23 Nov 2020
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Send a textCore Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Nick Lee, Professor of Marketing, whose research using neuroscience and chaos theory has found a ...
The impact of Brexit on the UK's mental health
16 Nov 2020
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Send a textNick Powdthavee reveals the results of his nationwide research into the effect of Brexit on the population's mental wellbeing. The vot...
How our digital traces can be used as a real-time measure of global travel
09 Nov 2020
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Send a textTobias Preis and Suzy Moat direct the Data Science Lab, which examines how data science can offer insights into human behaviour and decisio...
Nick Chater on why autonomous vehicles will need their own roads
03 Nov 2020
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Send a textSelf-driving cars have been promised as the future for the last decade with various manufacturers experimenting with their own designs alon...
How business strategists can take advantage of our bias of ignoring luck
24 Oct 2020
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Send a textChengwei Liu, Associate Professor of Strategy and Behavioral Science, talks about his research into luck with Core Insights host Trevor Bar...
Does giving workers a pay rise lead to greater productivity?
19 Oct 2020
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Send a textAndrea Isoni, Professor of Behavioural Science, joins Core Insights host Trevor Barnes to discuss the conundrum of pay rises. Professor Iso...
Anchoring - the nudge plunging us all into debt
12 Oct 2020
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Send a textTrevor Barnes, host of Core Insights, interviews Neil Stewart, Professor of Behavioural Science, about a nudge - or sludge - that he discov...
Why short-termism often overrules obvious long-term gains
05 Oct 2020
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Send a textCore Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Daniel Read, Professor of Behavioural Science, about his research into intertemporal choices, whi...
Nick Chater on why searching for your true 'self' is pointless
17 Sep 2020
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Send a textWe assume that below a mental “surface” of conscious awareness lies a deep and complex set of inner beliefs, values, and desires that g...