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- Report
- 4th Aug 2021
Applying behavioural insights to design better safer gambling tools
Our latest report continues BIT's extensive work on investigating whether industry-standard safer gambling tools can be improved using principles from behavioural science. As with our report earlier in 2021, our latest work again focused on deposit limits: a widely-available tool that allows people who gamble to cap the amount they…
- Blog
- 12th Aug 2021
One behaviour at a time: Redesigning entrepreneurship pathways in the Arab States
We recently co-hosted a webinar at the UN Behavioural Science Week 2021 during which we presented initial evidence from the project and asked UNDP colleagues in participating Country Offices to reflect on their experience thus far. We share three insights below about what it takes to apply behavioural science to…
- Report
- 18th Aug 2021
Active Online Choices: Designing to Empower Users
We worked with the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) to explore and demonstrate how to create ‘active' choices; choices where individual users are empowered to better control how they use digital products and services, and have a clear in the understanding of the consequences.
- Blog
- 1st Sep 2021
Shouting into the void: The importance of engagement for safety messaging in the gig economy
In this time of COVID-19, we’ve seen the rise of a new hero: the food delivery worker (FDW). FDWs brave the streets and keep us well fed from our local restaurants as we move in and out of lockdowns. But the work of an FDW can be dangerous, and until…
- Blog
- 15th Sep 2021
Behavioural Insights Team launches Gambling Policy & Research Unit 🎲
Today, BIT launches the Gambling Policy & Research Unit, a dedicated team of specialists with a mandate to develop and rigorously test methods and approaches to significantly reduce gambling harms. The UK is already the largest regulated gambling market in the world. Our vision for the Gambling Policy & Research…
- Press release
- 15th Sep 2021
Behavioural Insights Team launches Gambling Policy & Research Unit
The Gambling Policy & Research Unit is a dedicated team of specialists with a mandate to develop and rigorously test methods and approaches that will significantly reduce harms in the UK’s £14 billion gambling market
- Blog
- 16th Sep 2021
Would you like friction with that?
If you’re reading this, you are no doubt familiar with nudges. But what about sludges?
- Academic publication
- 25th Sep 2021
I don’t get it, but I like it: Detailed pricing information increases confidence, but decreases quality of decision making
In collaboration with an energy regulator, we tested five versions of a potential Basic Plan Information Documents (BPID) for energy plans in an incentivized online framed field experiment.
- Academic publication
- 1st Nov 2021
Persisting effects of social norm feedback letters in reducing household electricity usage in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe
In a large-scale randomized field experiment in Chisinau, Moldova, with over 120,000 households, we tested the influence of a simple, one-time letter presenting electricity-usage social comparison feedback.
- Blog
- 11th Nov 2021
Money Talk - more than a penny for your thoughts
Historically, not mentioning money has been an age-old rule that has guided British social interactions. However, this social norm may do more harm than good.