One of the achievements of behavioural economics was to overhaul the view of humans as selfish and rational creatures. But another assumption has gone...

An intervention to reduce Islamophobia

Behavioural research digital health

Communicating behavioural science

Construal Level Theory describes the relationship between psychological distance and the extent to which people's thinking is concrete or abstract. T...

Interventions for better diagnosis

Dr Brea Kunstler has been 'working the room'; leading discussions on the ways in which physiotherapists can use behavioural insights to encourage peop...

The OECD recently released a report on how Behavioural Insights can deliver better policies. One chapter was co-authored by our own Morgan Tear.

Effective health service boards keep our hospital systems running. But how do board members learn the skills needed to be effective and challenge them...

Knowing HOW to change behaviour isn't easy. Thankfully, Susan Michie and her colleagues introduced a framework to help researchers and practitioners s...

Nick Fawkner and Stefan Kaufman believe that it is important to be able to measure how government organisations generate public value, so they underto...

An important new initiative of the Monash Sustainable Development Institute and McMaster University, SSE will give decision-makers clearer evidence of...

Websites that encourage good behaviours are often less effective than websites that encourage purchases.  A new paper sets out to address this by givi...

Following a 2018 roundtable on “Research Impact in Policy” at the 2018 Global Evidence and Implementation Summit, Wiley Publishing invited BehaviourWo...

The potential of using wearable technology to tackle global health issues like diabetes will now be explored thanks a $2.15M grant awarded by the Aust...

Understanding prosocial behaviours is important with respect to tackling United Nations Sustainable Development Goals; in particular reducing inequali...

Launched in 2018 and supported by Monash University and industry partners, the Behaviour Change Graduate Research Industry Partnership Program (GRIP) ...

Many Labs 2 is the latest in a series of international projects to see if influential psychology experiments can be reproduced.  Almost 200 psychologi...

A new book entitled, From Roadside to Recovery: The Story of the Victorian State Trauma System, details how a grim statistic – 1034 – was a catalyst f...

Recognised as the first model of behaviour change specifically designed to help public administrators, BehaviourWorks’ INSPIRE framework describes sev...

Many human behaviours are being targeted by game-makers; healthy eating, medicine, coding, buying goods, using social media and education. BehaviourWo...

Increasing the uptake of e-services is critical for government agencies like VicRoads, which handles a wide range of vehicle-related tasks such as ren...

A paper on the impact of Rural Retirement Migration explores the issues of retirees choosing to relocate to rural locations and the impact that this h...

It’s estimated that dishonesty costs society hundreds of millions of dollars each year. BehaviourWorks Australia’s Nick Faulkner reviewed the literatu...

12 researchers. 3 days. 83,000 words. BehaviourWorks' Research Fellows take off on a writing retreat.

Sustainability Victoria has come up with a video campaign – the Love-a-list Challenge – to highlight how much of our bins contain avoidable food waste...

With Professor Dave Griggs, BehaviourWorks Director, Liam Smith, has proposed a new system of giving. Under this system, anyone on a high annual incom...

Behaviour change needs a new cohort of PhD qualified researchers capable of working with industry. Monash University's Graduate Research Industry Part...

BehaviourWorks Australia, working with the Monash Sustainable Development Institute, is delivering the first-ever specialised behaviour change unit. ...

Healthcare decisions can be complex. There are several contributing factors and multiple treatment options, which can place patients in complicated, c...

Obikes aren't the problem - it's our behaviours.

Some tips on how to form good habits and stick to them

A Behavioural guide to the Silly Season

Dr Peter Bragge is part of a Monash team identifying better treatments of TBI (traumatic brain injury)

Why we're punishing our bodies for good causes

BehaviourWorks gets fast results on slow payers

Digital tricks and behavioural insights

How footy fans can shed light on fanatics

The Trolley Problem is heading our way

Are oBikes a solution or a tripping hazard?

A BWA article in the Conversation asks if big issue docos bring about change

What does a month off the grog mean in terms of health benefits, awareness of dangerous drinking habits and cancer research? The evidence appears mixe...

Stories don't just take us away, they can bring us back to change our behaviour

Mindfulness certainly sound like the answer to many behavioural problems, particularly for kinds, but what's the evidence?

Four BWA researchers have written an article for The Conversation detailing some of the findings of a review into the best way to encouraging healthy ...

A recent episode of ABC Radio National’s The Money was devoted to online scams and the tricks that scammers use to defraud, humiliate and sometimes bl...

It promised so much – but has the self-esteem movement created a measurable rise in narcissism and a generation of selfie-snapping millennials? And is...

The inaugural Master of Environment and Sustainability course is the first cross-faculty Masters course at Monash University. It’s also the first time...

A new article reveals why Australian towns and cities don't have public squares

Can you put a value on government services? Yes you can.

An article about rental apps that are marketed as fair but are actually forcing prices up

Scientists need to get emotional to explain what they do and why it's so important

BWA embarks on a three-year project to improve patient outcomes

As political polarisation intensifies, it seems even the US flag can trigger different reactions depending on your ideology.

The more we worry about investment mistakes, the more we make (mistakes, that is)

How parents react and behave during their children’s medical treatment can affect how that child perceives stress and pain.

What motivates workers in the gig economy? Behavioural science, apparently.

Will our behaviour soon be dictated by devices speaking in algorithms?

A behavioural insight into why doctors prescribe so many useless scans

BWA's Nick Faulkner has had a new paper published exploring the link between cosmopolitanism and empathy

Fear drives behaviour, and gun sales

Can celebrities influence our buying behaviours?

An article on tennis match-fixing from a behavioural point of view

BWA researchers have come up with a better letter