Finance
Why Road Safety And Bank Queues Are Long-Lost Cousins
Policymakers and private players are cottoning on to the reality that people are often imperfectly rational, and factoring this into policy design.
This Is Your Brain On Money
Behavioural research has worked to uncover the different ways in which we think about money. This knowledge can be used to ‘hack’ our behaviours to bring about financial and mental well-being.
How Does Anchoring Impact Our Decisions?
Anchoring is among the most prevalent and impactful cognitive biases that we encounter in our daily lives, particularly when making decisions under uncertainty.
Does Improving Financial Literacy Lead To Better Decisions?
Financial decision making is a complex beast and a full understanding of it might require much more than familiarity.
How Can We Make Online Banking More Enjoyable?
By studying customers and rethinking the user interface, we can leverage behavioral design principles to make online banking more enjoyable.
Need Not Greed: Bonuses, Risk–Taking And Evolution
Why would we seemingly be willing to take risks to earn more? What actually motivates and drives risk–taking? The answer may lie in how we have evolved.
How Wells Fargo Nudged Their Employees To Commit Fraud
Thousands of low-wage Wells Fargo employees defrauded customers. Why did they do it?
Why Don’t We Save Enough for Our Retirement?
In this post, we explore three behaviourally influenced reasons for why people do not save enough for retirement.
More Slacking, Less Tracking: How Scarcity Affects the Working Poor
Insights from behavioural economics are used to explain why the poor are not poor simply by virtue of their bad decisions.
Increasing The Pull Of The Future Self
People tend to discount the impact that their current decisions have on their future outcomes. A variety of explanations has been offered as to why this is.