economics, psychology, policy

I am currently giving a set of lectures as part of a module " Behavioural Economics: Concepts and Theories " in Stirling. I am pos...

How can researchers and universities make better use of smartphones? Programming dedicated apps for different research needs is costly bot...

The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance Steven D. Levitt, John A. List, Susanne...

The Institute for Advanced Behavioural Studies' new website has just been launched. The mission of the institute is to act as a facili...

Will organise an online bookclub on this recent publication from Princeton University Press in the near future. Description below. ...

TED talk by Laurie Santos from a while back. This is really interesting. About seven minutes in, we see some clips of monkeys using money t...

Ipsos MORI recently published a report detailing research carried out into the acceptability of governmental interventions, available here ....

I had a quick read of Kahneman's new book and will read it more carefully over the weekend. Looks wonderful from first reading. Michael ...

Tomorrow sees the conclusion of a recent series of Channel 4 programmes put together by the illusionist Derren Brown: The Eperiments . Accor...

"The American Academy of Arts and Sciences will present its Talcott Parsons Prize to Daniel Kahneman, whom some have called the world’...

Nudgers amongst you might be interested in a recent special program from the excellent BBC Radio 4 series All in the Mind that looks at the...

I recently read Fischer's (JEBO, 2001) paper 'Read this paper later: procrastination with time-consistent preferences.' It buil...

The notes from my talk on behavioural economics in Kenmare are available on this link . Abstract : The last 10 years has seen a dramatic ...

People tend to accept good news much more than bad according to this paper by Sharot, Korn and Dolan. I suppose these kinds of asymmetries ...

The Behavioural Insights Team within the UK Cabinet office has been working on the application of a number of literatures surrounding behavi...

Behavioural characteristics and financial distress Yvonne McCarthy Using a new nationally representative survey of financial capability and ...

One area that I want to use this blog to keep a discussion going on is the very important change in the pension system that will take place,...

Thanks to Clare for pointing me to this paper forthcoming in Psychological Science by Savani, Stevens and Markus. Abstract below. Abstract...

TCD Neuroscience Professor, Shane O'Mara, sketches a number of potential cognitive biases that might have underlay the Irish economic cr...

The European Health and Consumer Directorate, in particular its consumer division, has been taking an active interest in behavioural economi...