In many areas, the delivery of the UN’s mandates is linked to changing human behaviour. Behavioural science refers to an evidence-based understanding of how people actually behave, make decisions and ...

Predicting the social and behavioural impact of future technologies before they are achieved would enable us to guide their development and regulation before these impacts get entrenched.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A whole strata of academics became akin to rock stars thanks to their ability to explain why humans behaved the way they did.

Despite significant investments in “impact infrastructure”—the sum of interventions promoting researchers’ policy engagement—there is a notable lack of evaluations (Oliver et al. 2022) or systematic, ...

When fiction’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, needed to solve a crime, he turned to his sharp observational skills and deep understanding of human nature. He used this combination more than ...

The studentship is funded by the by Queen Mary University of London's (QMUL) School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences. It will cover home tuition fees, and provide an annual tax-free maintenance ...

The Noughties and early 2010s were a good time to be a behavioural scientist. At least, they were if you happened to be doing the right kind of behavioural science – the sexy kind. Pick an ...