A package of papers looking at the social and behavioural sciences shows the value of researchers collaborating to further ...

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 ...

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.

A major US study has assessed the reproducibility of research papers in the social sciences, revealing insights into the ...

A new study from St James’s Place (SJP) suggests that applying behavioural science to investment communications could ...

A seven-year study analysing thousands of social science research papers reveals insights into the reproducibility and robustness of findings in the field.

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 ...

A major international collaboration on scientific reliability has been completed and is now presented in three articles in ...

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 meadow grasshopper (Pseudochorthippus parallelus). This species is widespread across most of Europe and is commonly used as a model organism in evolutionary biology. If an experiment is repeated ...

The Noughties and early 2010s were a good time to be a behavioural scientist. At least, they were if you happened to be doing the right kind of behavioural science – the sexy kind. Pick an ...