In many areas, the delivery of the UN’s mandates is linked to changing human behaviour. Behavioural science refers to an evidence-based understanding of how people actually behave, make decisions and ...

A recent study provides evidence that some results of behavioral experiments with insects cannot be fully reproduced. So far, possible reproducibility problems have been little discussed in this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A whole strata of academics became akin to rock stars thanks to their ability to explain why humans behaved the way they did.

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This course is compulsory on the MSc in Behavioural Science. This course is not available as an outside option to students on other programmes. Behavioural science is the scientific study of human ...

This course is compulsory on the Executive MSc in Behavioural Science. This course is not available as an outside option to students on other programmes. The course aims to introduce students in an ...

As the world comes together to focus on recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, finding ways to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals is more urgent than ever. Behavioural science ...

Changing behaviour is complex. Knowing what should happen is not the same as making it happen. This research-led CPD programme, delivered by leading academics from The University of Manchester, ...

When fiction’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, needed to solve a crime, he turned to his sharp observational skills and deep understanding of human nature. He used this combination more than ...