I graduated from my Neuroscience BSc back in 1998. The big takeaway from my degree was that as Francis Crick put it back in 1979… Read More »To our Brain Everything is a Location: A Unified Theory of Neuroscience
Love this. The term Sludge is a great one. Sludge highlights how companies and organizations can and are taking advantage of innate consumer traits and… Read More »Sludge Detectives: The “Behavioural Economics Police” Take On Hotel Booking Sites
Well of course we are. It’s never been about gender. People are just bad at multi-tasking but really at kidding ourselves we can multitask. Source:… Read More »Humans are Bad at Multitasking
There are some great behavioural nudges at Japanese (busiest in the world!) railway stations. Source: The Amazing Psychology of Japanese Train Stations – CityLab
So now you know. Add that middle initial and look more clever… Middle name initials often appear in formal contexts, especially when people refer to… Read More »Middle name initials enhance evaluations of intellectual performance
If you’ve been to one of my workshops you’ll know my obsession with body language. Here are some great tips: https://youtu.be/l-WNI7BJQbg via Swiss Miss
A really interesting study looking at the different regions of the brain do many things, rather than the received wisdom that each brain region is… Read More »Specific parts of the brain do many things
Great stuff. It explains why changing one’s mind is so hard. Xu hopes these insights into how difficult it is for the brain to amend… Read More »The Neuroscience of Changing Your Mind
Tim Hartford takes a long hard look at Behavioural Economics. …there is something unnerving about a discipline in which our discoveries about the past do… Read More »What next for behavioural economics?
Loads of background, research, psychology and good advice on using icons. Great job Matthew Standage.