Chances are that you’ve heard of the Metaverse. It’s vaguely linked to Facebook and whatever Zuckerberg is up to these days. It also...

This is not financial advice! As the subheader indicates, this is not financial advice. I'm not qualified. Most people giving financial...

A while back I was having dinner with a friend of mine who holds a PhD in neuroscience. We were discussing, or rather criticizing, some...

Not too long ago I was watching a YouTube video by Better Ideas, a self-improvement channel making content on, well, unsurprisingly,...

A lot of literature on behavioural change focuses on how to slowly and incrementally integrate a new behaviour into your life. Think of...

The main point for me to start this blog was to be able to disseminate academic work to an audience that was much wider than academia....

Lifestyle Inflation. You’re supposed to aspire to always become a better, happier, healthier, wealthier version of yourself. But when...

For those who keep somewhat up to date with me as a person rather than as a writer, you may have noticed I’ve moved to Australia. I also...

You’ve read the title. You know what this article is going to be about. To kick off, let me start by saying I am a proponent of both open...

A lot of behavioural science focuses on the “why”. Why do we do the things we do? What is our motivation? Or, potentially, what is our...

In my post last week I outlined some great books and papers to get you into behavioural science. I am a massive bookworm, so that’s where...

I previously wrote a post about all the things I would have done differently going into behavioural science. Now I’m a practical type of...

With the new year coming up, is there really a better time for some self-reflection? Of course not! Leading question aside, I thought I’d...

How do you test if people are adhering to their medication? What their beliefs are about certain political issues. How often they...

The pain of paying is one of the oldest and most prominent theories explaining why using credit cards as compared to cash (and back in...