Decision-making and Analytics
Investors love good news. Why is that bad news for their portfolio?
Investors aversion to bad news could lead them to adopt unhelpful behaviours when trading, warns Neil Stewart.
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
Decision-making and Analytics
Male teachers face bias when applying for jobs, study shows
Netflix drama Adolescence highlighted the need for good male role models, yet a new study reveals discrimination against male teachers.
Leadership
How are CEOs influenced by their spouse?
Constantinos Antoniou reveals how a CEO's personal relationships affect their professional decisions and attitudes to risk.
Decision-making and Analytics
Does evolution explain impatience in business?
People act impatiently, even if the financial rewards are greater when they wait. Daniel Read explores why evolution might be to blame.
Decision-making and Analytics
Do celebrity endorsements like Keir Starmer's HIV test affect public health?
Elvis Presley convinced teens to get vaccinated, but it will take more than a photo of the Prime Minister to promote HIV testing, warns Ivo Vlaev.
Decision-making and Analytics
The hidden cost of discrimination in everyday transactions
Redzo Mujcic reveals how an experiment on public buses exposed widespread white privilege that went unrecorded.
Healthcare and Wellbeing
The NHS in 2025: A tale of targets, technology and transformation
What lies ahead for healthcare in the UK? Graeme Currie and Ivo Vlaev offer their perspectives.
Decision-making and Analytics
Could your Christmas gifts change your behaviour?
New research by Liad Weiss has shown there is more to giving gifts at Christmas than we think.
Decision-making and Analytics
Bread and roses: Making the case for cultural funding
Resources may be scarce, but Jonothan Neelands and Mark Scott argue that cultural organisations are better placed than ever to apply for funding.
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