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The sneaky strategy of reducing pack sizes shows the strength of consumers’ cognitive bias towards focusing on price, no matter what.
Big data analysis has unveiled startling links between seemingly unrelated things, such as how a person’s physical elevation above sea level might influence their personality.
The NSW government’s announcement of a $1,000 fine for failing to report a positive voluntary rapid antigen test will likely achieve the opposite of its intention.
A surge in stock markets towards year end goes against the idea of rational traders, yet it often happens.
The change point at which the happiness of most Australians no longer strongly depends on income has almost doubled from A$43,000 to A$74,000.
Would £184 million make you any happier?
Some thought Dan Ariely’s faked data study might be a blow to behavioural science, but actually its exposure shows how behavioural scientists are rooting out false research.
Protesters might make some noise, but not enough to stop vaccine passports becoming Australia’s preferred policy.
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.
How to inject more reality into gamblers’ overestimation of their chances of winning? One simple tool is feedback.
The difference between conspiratorial thinking and believing the official narrative isn’t necessarily as big as you might you think.
Australia appears to have cracked the case on teen driver safety by restricting late-night passengers.
Bias is a psychological process detectable in individual judgements. Noise is a different phenomenon affecting human decisions.
Financially stressing people who can’t make ends meet makes it hard for them to function.
Another local lockdown, another outbreak of shoppers stockpiling. Fortunately supply chains are now prepared.
Australia’s behavioral economics unit publishes rather than hides the results of its unsuccessful experiments.
With limits on family time this Christmas, are we going to supplement Christmas spirit with presents?
What Boris Johnson needs to learn from the Manchester funding debacle.
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.
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Professor of Economics, Tasmanian Behavioural Lab, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor in Economics, RMIT University
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The University of Queensland
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Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Director of the Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW
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Professor of Behavioural Economics, Tasmanian Behavioural Lab, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Behavioural Economics , Newcastle Business School, University of Newcastle
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