Behavioural scientists explain why people react badly to paternalistic messaging from politicians. If you treat people like children and tell them to stop doing something, it has the opposite effect.
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You’ve heard pregnant women talk about nesting, whether that’s painting the nursery, or cleaning the house from top to bottom before their baby arrives. But new research turns ‘nesting’ on its head.
Large-scale adoption of simple, individual actions — like disinfecting our germ-laden phone screens — can limit the ability of COVID-19 to get a foothold.
The trick is changing our actual behaviour, as well as our intentions.
Cognitive neuroscience finds that regular consumption of pornography affects the centres of the brain responsible for will power, impulse control and morality.
You’ve no one to blame but yourself, according to science.
Research shows if time out is used occasionally, briefly and the child understands the process, it can be a useful parenting tool for kids aged two to eight.
Plenty of services use AI to study your behaviour to suggest new things to you. So could such a tool help you decide how to vote?
What’s often missing from domestic violence responses are investments and strategies to stop men perpetrating violence in the first place.
The power of intention only takes us so far. Achieving goals requires strategic infrastructure to overcome obstacles.
Just because somebody else does something doesn’t mean you have to follow. Or does it?
The way you and your partner use humour can shape your relationship, and even break it up.
Dogs have the same hormones and experience the same chemical changes that humans do.
If your child has a problem with defiant behaviours, there are a number of things you can do to avoid standoffs and reduce the chance of meltdowns. Here’s how.
Under some circumstances, people may feel wealthier than they actually are and this makes them psychologically more prone to increase their spending, as well as their borrowing.
Some children’s tantrums, irritability and defiance well exceed that typically found in healthy children of the same age. This can be overwhelming for parents, especially as children grow.
The vast discrepancy between abhorrence of bestiality and acceptance of slaughtering on animals suggests that thinking imaginatively about animal orgasm may help us to be more compassionate toward animals.
Clinically speaking, you can’t become addicted to a device, but you can develop behavioural addictions to smartphone functions.
Tantrum throwing peaks at age two, as children experience the perfect storm of not being able to express themselves verbally while simultaneously developing their sense of autonomy and independence.
The very existence of kindness and altruism seems to contradict Darwin’s theory of evolution. So how could kind behaviour have evolved?
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Behavioural Science, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Emeritus Professor of Marketing, University of Birmingham
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Professor, School of Population Health, UNSW
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Associate Professor, School of Educational Psychology and Inclusion, Monash University
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Professor of Management and Scientia Education Academy Fellow, UNSW
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Professor of Economics, Tasmanian Behavioural Lab, University of Tasmania
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Director of Health Programs, BehaviourWorks Australia; Lead, Monash-McMaster Social Systems Evidence Collaboration, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Director, BehaviourWorks, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Professor of Children's Environmental Health, Simon Fraser University
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PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
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PhD Student in Communication and Social Interaction, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental Management, Australian Catholic University
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PhD Candidate in Communications, University of Florida