How will the new recycling scheme involving Woolworths, Coles and Aldi work? And what are some upsides for shoppers if we had more plastic-free food to choose from?
- Professor of Economics, Tasmanian Behavioural Lab, University of Tasmania
After years of warnings of a recruitment crisis in defence, new data show its suddenly risen by 17%. There’s a combination of reasons why.
Planning health and fitness goals for 2025? Here’s how to make home exercise equipment work for you (and keep it from becoming useless household clutter).
White people that sweep into developing countries to “save” people of colour are widely derided, including by donors. Does this translate to less charity donations?
The Australian Defence Force is in desperate need of more recruits. How could they get more Gen Z people on board?
Management jobs are proliferating much faster than other roles. But behavioural research shows the extra box-ticking can leave employees feeling stressed, patronised and demotivated.
Understanding people’s motivations for enlisting can also reveal a lot about the suitability of recruits for the military, given the new demands they face in these roles.
The merits of ‘nudging’ have become. entangled in the ideological war over pandemic responses.
People in our experiments liked art by women – but believed women’s paintings are less attractive for investment.
So far, we are not getting carried away about inflation.
“Itu tidak mungkin terjadi pada saya”: mengapa kami pikir kami kebal terhadap penipuan penipu, bagaimana mereka menipu orang biasa - dan mengapa kami menyukai pertunjukan tentang mereka.
“It can’t happen to me”: why we think we’re immune to con artist scams, how they go about swindling regular people - and why we love shows about them.
Too much of our discussion about vaccine hesitancy imagines the problem in rational terms. Perceptions about COVID-19 and vaccines are driven by emotion, not reason.
The difference between conspiratorial thinking and believing the official narrative isn’t necessarily as big as you might you think.
Most of us dislike commuting. But there are ways to make it a more positive experience.
With many more months of lockdowns, mask mandates and quarantining in our futures, the government needs to get its messaging just right and we all need to manage our expectations appropriately.
Law enforcement is a blunt tool to achieve social conformity with COVID-safe rule. It’s time to start thinking about other strategies to promote new norms.
The government has become an easy scapegoat as the pandemic has worsened. While blame can alleviate stress, grief and guilt, it can also be counterproductive if people trust less in their leaders.
Our desire to condemn and punish non-cooperative behaviour is strong. But we must also try to understand the complex emotional motivations of those refusing to wear masks.
People aren’t the perfectly rational, number-crunching risk-takers that traditional theory suggests. Research shows a whole variety of factors feed into risk-taking.
Past studies point to traditional Confucian values and a refugee mentality as a reason for the business success of Chinese people living overseas, our research debunks this.
Nobel Prize winner Thomas Schelling will be recognised for his little-known comments that sparked behavioural economics.
