Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the use of behavioural science to address the
priorities of public and private sector actors. There is now a vibrant ecosystem of …

Nudging or 'choice architecture'refers to strategic changes in the environment that are
anticipated to alter people's behaviour in a predictable way, without forbidding any options …

A carbon tax is widely accepted as the most effective policy for curbing carbon emissions but
is controversial because it imposes costs on consumers. An alternative,'nudge,'approach …

Success of strategies for solving problems of climate change, resource efficiency and
environmental impacts increasingly depend on whether changes in public behaviour can …

Background Obesity has become a world-wide epidemic and is spreading to countries with
emerging economies. Previously tested interventions are often too costly to maintain in the …

Welfare conditionality has become an idea of global significance in recent years. A 'hot
topic'in North America, Australia, and across Europe, it has been linked to austerity politics …

The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB; Ajzen, 1985), an extension of the Theory of
Reasoned Action (TRA; Fishbein & Ajzen, 1975), has been the dominant theoretical …

Objective: To discuss healthy diet from a psychological perspective by considering
definitions of healthy diet in terms of consumer understanding; the health effects of specific …

Individuals make increasingly more decisions on screens, such as those on websites or
mobile apps. However, the nature of screens and the vast amount of information available …

Medicine has been personal long before the concept of “personalized medicine” became
popular. Health professionals have always taken into consideration the individual …