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The power of the punchline: how jokes can shape change
Jokes are far more significant than witty amusements, aligning us in challenging norms, allowing change to happen
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Is trust in government now a relic of the past?
As governments struggle with a loss of trust - cutting short chances of re-election and impacting policy in key areas- now is a good time to reconsider…
Welcome to Brand Weirding: The strange new logic of brand categories
The psychology sitting behind the way market categories stopped being a shorthand for sense making and started making worlds
An Era of Disappointment: How unmet expectations can drive us forward
Why optimism bias might be less helpful than the political discontent that comes from disappointment
The Price is Right (or not): How pricing shapes brand relationships.
The price of something is more than a number, defining the relationship between buyer and seller.
Beyond the prescription: Engaging with alternative health beliefs
How Behavioural Science can guide healthcare professionals in addressing alternative health beliefs
Frontline behavioural themes for 2025
A historical comparison shows how 2025 could be a year of crisis and reinvention
Kindness: a warm glow or a means to systems change?
The latest in our articles on how we need to understand our uniquely human attributes if we are to tackle today's biggest challenges
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From Command to Collaboration
Why behavioural science is essential for a new era of the 'Eco-organisation'
Fungi Frameworks: Rethinking behaviour change in a meme world
Although Brat summer is over, it showed us the way memes and vibes are often an underestimated part of behaviour change
How awkward truths can drive change
Awkwardness, while often avoided, can point to the need for new words to shape the way we understand our changing world
Who Turned Down the Lights?
Why navigating gaslighting is vital in a misinformed world.
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How we name things in a Code 6 world
The names we use are struggling to reflect our changing world. A new behavioural science approach to naming is called for
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The politics of pleasure
With the holiday season coming to an end in the northern hemisphere, we dive into a behavioural exploration of what pleasure means
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Thinking About Behavior
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Business of behavioural science
Beliefs
Change
Digital
Emotion
Gender
Risk
Trust
Summer reads
They call it love
Alva Gotby's book on the gendered politics of emotion
When God talks back
An amazing read to explore the way in which belief is formed and maintained
Why wellness sells
Arguably one of the best books published on wellness
The revival of political imagination
A really interesting book to dip into on utopian thinking
Seduced by story
A provocation about the uses and abuses of story telling
Human
All about what it means to be human
Blogs
Internal Exile
Thought provoking stuff from Rob Horning
thisanthrolife
Stimulating anthropological thinking

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