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  • 15th Feb 2016

Applications now open for Behavioural Exchange 2016 Junior Scholars Award

Following the success of the first BX Awards last year at our London BX2015 Conference, we are pleased to be able to announce that the award for junior scholars will be returning to the BX2016 conference at Harvard this year. This award recognises junior scholars who are conducting cutting-edge research that intersects with applied areas…

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  • 17th Feb 2016

Would you hire on the toss of a coin?

Here’s a reasonable question: why put multiple people on a task when you can just get one really smart person to do all the work? Put simply, because the group’s probably going to do a better job. The history behind the science One hundred years ago, British statistician Francis Galton…

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  • 19th Feb 2016

Reducing antibiotic prescribing: a new BIT study published in The Lancet

The growth of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the major health challenges of our time. The UK’s Review on Antimicrobial Resistance has forecast that AMR will result in 10 million deaths and $100 trillion in unachieved GDP a year by 2050. One of the main causes of resistance is…

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  • 22nd Feb 2016

How can text messages encourage people to see a doctor?

If you haven’t seen a doctor in a long time, the thought of picking up the phone to schedule an appointment can be terrifying. Sometimes it’s easier to adopt an “out of sight out of mind” mentality. However, the people who haven’t seen a doctor in years are the ones…

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  • 26th Feb 2016

People: peers, pain and power

One of the most fascinating and important areas in life is surely the fine line between wanting to help, and being wary of, those around us. It’s a tension woven deeply into policy and into our humanity. Recently I had one of those afternoons where an accident of meetings seemed…

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  • 2nd Mar 2016

Tax lotteries and Behavioural Insights in Europe

Last week, the European Commission published a report on the growing uptake of behavioural insights across the governments of Europe. You can read the report here. One of the most interesting parts of the paper is on the growing use of tax lotteries in European countries. Lotteries or prize draws…

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  • 4th Mar 2016

How can a letter encourage us to pay our parking fines?

Like death and taxes, parking tickets are a fact of life - especially in urban areas. While no driver likes seeing that slip of paper tucked under their windshield wiper, parking tickets serve important functions - like keeping busy roadways free of impediments and making parking fair to all drivers.…

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  • 8th Mar 2016

How do you get gender equality? Design for it

Thinking hard about the environments in which we make decisions is as important has having the best of intentions

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  • 18th Mar 2016

Sugar tax: how will it affect behaviour?

One of the most striking announcements in this week’s UK budget was the introduction of a new ‘soft drinks levy’ (quickly dubbed the sugar tax), which will come into force in 2018. New taxes aren’t usually associated with the Behavioural Insights Team - partly because BIT’s preference is to find…

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  • 22nd Mar 2016

Five factors for supporting people to take a more active role in health and wellbeing

Today we launch a report, as part of the Realising the Value consortium, that aims to show how people themselves can take more active roles in their own health and care. They, along with their communities, can create self-care routines which boost health and wellbeing. The potential value of this…