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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…
AI applications are beginning to dramatically influence the experiences of retail investors around the world - from providing advice and automated portfolio management to ‘turbo-charging’ fraud and scams. Securities regulators are striving to understand, prioritize and address potential investor harms while fostering innovation.
Governments collectively spend trillions on public services. Despite this, surprisingly little is known on what works across most areas of public spending. Alongside this, R&D spending by governments across most areas of spending, with the exception of health and defence, are incredibly low. For the U.S., UK, Australia and Canada,…
A nationally representative survey of 2000 adults found that 81% of people are overconfident in their answers to a series of general knowledge questions - that is to say, they answer incorrectly but believe their response to be right - but there are notable differences between generations.
In a rapidly changing labour market, how can people be empowered to make better decisions about skills and work?
Historically the gambling market in Britain has been dominated by cash. However, in more recent times debit card payments have become the predominant form of payment in Britain, including in the gambling market.
In this report, BIT’s Gambling Policy and Research Unit presents additional evidence wagering requirements (WR)—common restrictions on gambling offers stipulating how many times a player must stake their received bonus funds before they can withdraw anything as their own money—are poorly understood by consumers.
Commissioned by Citizens Advice, this report explores how online choices architecture disproportionately harm vulnerable consumers, recommending this architecture and vulnerability should be addressed together to protect consumers.
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