Core Insights: Behavioural Science
Warwick Business School's Core Insights team presents a 12-part series on behavioural science. Warwick Business School has the biggest group of behavioural science researchers in Europe. Over 12 episodes host Trevor Barnes interviews academics on the latest research and thinking into how our mind works, how we make decisions, the biases and heuristics that govern our behaviour and how we can apply behavioural science insights to help improve business, government, health and society.
Episodes
12 episodes
How behavioural science nudges can improve our health
In the final episode of our first Behavioural Science series, Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Ivo Vlaev, Professor of Behavioural Science, about his work in the health sector. Professor Vlaev has put together a series of randomised co...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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32:28
How do Governments balance saving lives with impacting the economy?
Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Graham Loomes, Professor of Behavioural Science, about his research on the trade-offs involved in implementing costly health polices like those used during the pandemic. How does a Government decide how...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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30:56
How AI can help us build more scenic towns and cities
Chanuki Seresinhe has been training AI to recognise beautiful scenery and now believes it can be used to help design towns and cities that can improve our mental wellbeing. Dr Seresinhe tells Core Insights host Trevor Barnes how she has used AI...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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26:39
How neuroscience can now predict our decisions
Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Nick Lee, Professor of Marketing, whose research using neuroscience and chaos theory has found a way of predicting our decisions before we have even made them. Professor Lee reveals how brain scans can ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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30:54
The impact of Brexit on the UK's mental health
Nick Powdthavee reveals the results of his nationwide research into the effect of Brexit on the population's mental wellbeing. The vote split the nation and for those who voted remain Professor Powdthavee has found evidence that the distress an...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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23:46
How our digital traces can be used as a real-time measure of global travel
Tobias Preis and Suzy Moat direct the Data Science Lab, which examines how data science can offer insights into human behaviour and decision making. They are also Fellows at
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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26:16
Nick Chater on why autonomous vehicles will need their own roads
Self-driving cars have been promised as the future for the last decade with various manufacturers experimenting with their own designs alongside tech giants Google, Uber and Apple. Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioural Science, has been trying ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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28:35
How business strategists can take advantage of our bias of ignoring luck
Chengwei Liu, Associate Professor of Strategy and Behavioral Science, talks about his research into luck with Core Insights host Trevor Barnes. Dr Liu reveals the situations and reasons why we have a bias towards luck, underestimating our good ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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29:06
Does giving workers a pay rise lead to greater productivity?
Andrea Isoni, Professor of Behavioural Science, joins Core Insights host Trevor Barnes to discuss the conundrum of pay rises. Professor Isoni has used game theory to examine how pay rises are actually reciprocated by employees. For many bosses ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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25:17
Anchoring - the nudge plunging us all into debt
Trevor Barnes, host of Core Insights, interviews Neil Stewart, Professor of Behavioural Science, about a nudge - or sludge - that he discovered on his credit card statement. Anchoring is a well-established nudge with plenty of research confirmi...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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30:08
Why short-termism often overrules obvious long-term gains
Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Daniel Read, Professor of Behavioural Science, about his research into intertemporal choices, which looks at why, even though we are on a diet, we choose to eat a cream bun now, rather than wait for our...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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24:56
Nick Chater on why searching for your true 'self' is pointless
We assume that below a mental “surface” of conscious awareness lies a deep and complex set of inner beliefs, values, and desires that govern our thoughts, ideas, and actions, and that to know this depth is to know ourselves. But
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Episode 1
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