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28 minutes
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75 tập
kể từ Ngày 22 tháng 5 năm 2025
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As UK Celebrity Traitors nears its finale, Robert and Jamie discuss the psychology of lying and deception – and just as importantly, how good are we at detecting lies? A mega review of the research evidence put us at just above chance level, with a bit of a bias towards believing people rather than…

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Tìm kiếm các tập trước của Unlocking Behaviour Change.

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Communication for behaviour change

Robert has been to China with Susan (Michie) to launch the Chinese translation of the Behaviour Change Wheel book. Robert waxes lyrical about what a wonderful time he had and how smart, fun, and kind his hosts were, and how modern, clean, and efficient everything was ... Meanwhile, in what's left …
In the previous episode, Robert castigated economics and economists' concept of 'utility' as fundamentally flawed, leading to models whose predictions keep being wrong. This week, Robert sketches out a way of thinking about utility that could improve economic modelling, yield more accurate predicti…
Robert has a bone to pick with economic theory . . . In fact, he wants to pick its bones clean and start over with a much better theory for everyone! Join the duo as they discuss what economic theory gets wrong and how it might be put right . . .   Want more? Check out our latest books:   Energis…
Derisory amounts of money paid for a piece of work called an 'honorarium' seem ok when if they were a 'fee', it would be insulting! Robert and Jamie discuss how we react differently to the same things when they are classified and labelled differently. This includes clinical diagnoses, where receivi…
Robert and Jamie discuss the crucial question of how we classify and label things: one of the most basic things that we do in our mental and social world. But in an infinitely complex universe, putting things into boxes is fraught with difficulties, and classifications lie at the heart of important…
Robert and Jamie pay tribute to Dolly Parton - and Jamie plugs his video on her which can be found here - and then discuss how our intuitions about probability can be seriously misleading - leading to disastrous decisions. Robert explains why decision-makers must understand numerical probability. R…
Robert and Jamie discuss various ways in which we understand probability, including a tendency to 'overchunk' probabilities ('possible', 'likely'), and how these can lead to disastrous decisions. Want more? Check out our latest books:   Energise: The Secrets Of Motivation: https://shorturl.at/bbA…
Robert makes the bold claim that 'probability' underlies all knowledge and that behavioural scientist should always be thinking about knowledge and claims we make in terms of 'priors' (their judgement of the likelihood that something is true before gathering some evidence) and their 'posterior prob…
Robert and Jamie discuss the ubiquitous phenomenon, illustrated by one of the episodes in The Odyssey, that the first priority of our motivational system is not necessarily our best interests, or even what we most enjoy - it's something else. Because humans kind of know this, we are sometimes willi…
Tuyên bố miễn trừ trách nhiệm: Podcast và tác phẩm nghệ thuật được nhúng trên trang này là của Robert West, là tài sản của chủ sở hữu và không được liên kết hoặc xác nhận bởi Listen Notes, Inc.