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New report with the LEGO Group explores how governments can regulate digital technology to boost children's well-being, moving beyond harm prevention to shaping markets for good
BIT's new report explores how Singapore has become one of the world’s most effective bureaucracies. Through conversations with nine top Singaporean officials, this report identifies key themes in their success.
We designed and tested a WhatsApp chatbot to understand whether two-way interactive messaging incorporating behaviourally informed functionalities could perform better than one-way message reminders. We ran a large-scale preregistered randomized controlled trial with 249,705 participants in Argentina, measuring vaccinations using Ministry of Health records.
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Diseñamos y probamos un chatbot de WhatsApp para entender si la comunicación interactiva bidireccional, que incorpora funcionalidades informadas por el comportamiento, podría funcionar mejor que los recordatorios de mensajes unidireccionales. Llevamos a cabo un ensayo controlado aleatorizado y preinscrito a gran escala con 249.705 participantes en Argentina, midiendo las vacunaciones…
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BIT and Smart Energy GB’s new report shines a spotlight on how essential public engagement is for the Net Zero mission. It identifies 10 key areas to focus activity and action - grouped under our “4As” model of Awareness, Acceptance, Access and Adoption.
Community Apprentice was a youth social action programme in which teams of Year 10 pupils were supported to design and deliver a fundraising campaign for a charity of their choice. Delivered by Envision, the programme aimed to develop pupils’ self-efficacy, social confidence and teamwork skills, with the long-term aim of increasing their participation…
Building on our 2022 research, which found that gamification tactics can harm investors by encouraging them to trade more frequently, BIT partnered with the Ontario Securities Commission on a follow-up experiment. In a randomized controlled trial, we tested four more engagement techniques that platforms are starting to use
In the wake of the UK’s recent riots, social media platforms are under fire for perpetuating misinformation, disinformation, and hateful content. This note outlines behavioural factors that point to the need for platform and system-wide interventions to combat misinformation. Underpinning this note is analysis from a survey of 2,000+ UK…
We (The Behavioural Insights Team; BIT) were commissioned by the European Climate Foundation (ECF) and Nesta to better understand public attitudes to Net Zero policies, the factors that underpin support or opposition, and what can done in the way policies are designed to increase popularity.
People have been orchestrating financial fraud and scams for centuries. But the recent rise of generative AI has massively increased the scale and sophistication of scams, including in capital markets. Regulators are rightly concerned and focused on how to protect retail investors. BIT and the Ontario Securities Commission investigated this…
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