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.
Nick Chater often receives rapid feedback on his work. He shares three lessons he has learned about human behaviour in the face of wicked problems like the pandemic.
New research has enabled economic experts to pinpoint the UK’s local authorities most in need of the UK Government’s £4.8 billion Levelling Up Fund.
Racial bias in police stop and search operations is not limited to decisions made by individual officers. Neil Stewart explores the scale and causes of the problem.
Professor Nick Chater reveals how cognitive bias can trap business leaders facing unfamiliar decisions.
In the turbulent post-COVID environment, Mairead Brady argues companies need to make sure they have the right marketing leadership and stay agile
The sounds of certain words can grate for some people and there is a reason for that. Nick Chater and Morten Christiansen explain how sound symbolism works.
Nudging is becoming increasingly popular among policymakers, business and organisations, but Tim Mullett says it is important to understand its disadvantages.
Ivo Vlaev, Professor of Behavioural Science, has been helping the UK tackle the pandemic as part of the National Health Service’s (NHS) COVID Behaviour Change Unit.
Parasite stress is a known phenomena and is probably happening in the pandemic. Tim Mullett has been testing how a widespread infectious disease changes people's personality.
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