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Decision-making and Analytics
We have the largest Decision-making and Analytics group in Europe with the subject a growing area of influence with businesses and policymakers around the world.
Decision-making and Analytics brings together many disciplines such as psychology, economics and biology, to study human behaviour and decision making. Its insights have led to ‘nudges’ being developed for many different contexts from tax collecting to reducing alcohol consumption to help people improve their thinking and decisions.
The success of these interventions has led to governments across the world creating their own ‘nudge units’, such as the UK’s Behavioural Insights Team, which we often partner and work with.
Our Decision-making and Analytics group produces and disseminates cutting edge research and advises managers and policymakers about how to induce behavioural changes for better organisations and societies.
Latest Decision-making and Analytics Research
Daniel Read pens a tribute to his mentor and the immense contribution the Nobel laureate made to behavioural science.
New research suggests that automatic enrolment into pension saving can impact other areas of people’s finances.
Systemic change, rather than individual responsibility, are required to address society's ills. But behavioural science can still be a powerful tool for good.
Research from Warwick Business School suggests people may not always want help with sticking to their New Year’s resolutions.
Daniel Read, Andrea Isoni, and Despoina Alempaki reveal how to balance profit and purpose when applying behavioural science.
Professor Nick Chater reveals how cognitive bias can trap business leaders facing unfamiliar decisions.
Naomi Muggleton, Neil Stewart and Nick Lee detail how banks can meet new consumer protection rules.
WBS research found a third of primary schools have no male classroom teachers and male secondary school teachers are at a record low.