Top Research Papers on Behavioural Economics

Qualitative analysis of a complex model provides evidence that the effects of shield immunity and economic shutdowns are complementary, such that governments should pursue them in tandem.

Unprecedented social, environmental, political and economic challenges - such as pandemics and epidemics, environmental degradation and community violence - require taking stock of how to promote behaviours that benefit individuals and society at large. In this Review, we synthesize multidisciplinary meta-analyses of the individual and social-structural determinants of behaviour (for example, beliefs and norms, respectively) and the efficacy of behavioural change interventions that target them. We find that, across domains, interventions designed to change individual determinants can be ordere...

Measuring Behaviour is the established go-to text for anyone interested in scientific methods for studying the behaviour of animals or humans. It is widely used by students, teachers and researchers in a variety of fields, including biology, psychology, the social sciences and medicine. This new fourth edition has been completely rewritten and reorganised to reflect major developments in how behavioural studies are conducted. It includes new sections on the replication crisis, covering Open Science initiatives such as preregistration, as well as fully up-to-date information on the use of remot...

The Explanation of Behaviour was the first book written by the renowned philosopher Charles Taylor. A vitally important work of philosophical anthropology, it is a devastating criticism of the theory of behaviourism, a powerful explanatory approach in psychology and philosophy when Taylor's book was first published. However, Taylor has far more to offer than a simple critique of behaviourism. He argues that in order to properly understand human beings, we must grasp that they are embodied, minded creatures with purposes, plans and goals, something entirely lacking in reductionist, scientific e...

Clear, concise, and written by experts currently lecturing in the field, Organizational Behaviour focuses exclusively on what you need to know for success in your business course and today's global economy. The text brings together a vast range of ideas, models, and concepts on organizational behaviour from an array of fields, such as psychology, sociology, history, economics, and politics. This information is presented in bite-sized, digestible pieces to create an accessible and engaging style that makes it the perfect text for introductory courses covering organizations. Key features include...

Abstract The way consumers behave is fundamental to marketing. Journal of Consumer Behaviour ( JCB ) is an international journal dedicated to publishing the latest developments of consumer behaviour. To gain an understanding of the evolution and trends in consumer behaviour, this study presents a retrospective review of JCB using bibliometric analysis. Using bibliographic records of JCB from Scopus, this study finds that consumer behaviour research in JCB has grown substantially in terms of collaboration (co‐authorships), global reach (countries), productivity (publications), and impact (citat...

This book discusses biomechanics and energetics, behaviour and the mechanical properties of the environment, certain animal structures and tools, and predictions based on laboratory studies on non-steady-state locomotor behavior in birds and fishes.

Organizational behaviour (OB) provides a framework for understanding and forecasting employee actions inside an organisation by drawing a line between private and public modes of behaving. There are some difficult organisational behaviour issues that cannot be solved by studying OB. It's a tool for solving problems that managers use to focus on one area at a time. Organisational Behaviour (OB) is a core component of many management degrees and programmes like PGDM, MBA, B.com, M.com, BBA, etc. Motivation, communication, managing groups and teams, dispute resolution, power and politics, decisio...

This study examines the determinants of e-waste recycling intention among young consumers in an emerging economy context by integrating habits into a prominent model that predicts people’s behaviour, namely, the theory of planned behaviour. Young consumers contribute significantly to the outgrowth of e-waste problem as front-runners in the consumption, generation and management processes. Survey data have been analysed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) approach as a multivariate statistical method. The findings show that the integrated model can explain more t...

Abstract In many countries farmers face pressure to adopt practices to promote sustainability and resilience while ensuring efficient business management to produce food and other agricultural products at reasonable cost. Given a policy context in which voluntary action is preferred over government regulation, understanding farmers’ motivation to embrace recommended practices has become a major subject for research. Increasingly, this endeavour is guided by the theory of planned behaviour, a reasoned action approach (Fishbein and Ajzen, 2010). We provide a brief overview of the theory of plann...

The WHO 2020 guidelines are based on the latest evidence on sedentary behaviour and health, along with interactions between sedentary Behaviour and MVPA, and support implementing public health programmes and policies aimed at increasing MVPA and limiting sedentarybehaviour.

Abstract Plastic pollution is a critical global sustainability challenge, but the social norms associated with single‐use plastics are changing. These new norms could be encouraging consumer behaviour change by highlighting which behaviours are common and acceptable. This paper explores the role of social norms in predicting plastic avoidance, using the theory of normative social behaviour (TNSB). A representative survey ( n = 1,001) was conducted measuring consumer behaviour in relation to four single‐use plastic items (bags, straws, coffee cups, and take‐away containers). Descriptive norms w...

This research investigates how entrepreneurial education activity (EEA) influences entrepreneurial behaviour (EB) by unpacking how EEA influences both entrepreneurial intention (EI) and EB and how behavioural entrepreneurial mindset (BEM) mediates the relationship between EEA and EI. This furthers research into the behavioural subdimension of entrepreneurial mindset and how this impacts the relationship between EEA and EI. Confirmatory factor analysis was used for checking the measurement model fit and psychometric properties of the measurement scales used, and structural equation modelling wa...

Behavioural screening in 24 mouse mutants identified the kinase Fgr as a driver of this pathogenic state, and interference with Fgr protected mice from inflammatory injury, and behavioural landscapes report distinct properties of dynamic environments at high cellular resolution.

The evidence suggests that CBT may slightly reduce depression but may result in little or no difference in anxiety or health-related quality of life, and the effects and safety of CBT for tinnitus in adults are uncertain.

This study first assessed participants’ neural responses when confronted with disappointments using two fundamental self-regulatory styles, self-criticism and self-reassurance, and identified neural networks associated with threat are reduced when practicing compassion, and heightened when being self-critical.

Neural recording and closed-loop manipulation during chronic stress in mice reveal causal links between dopamine, behavior and resilience and provide a link between DA neural activity, resilience and resilience-associated behaviour during the experience of stress.

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 practitioners, teams and academics building on each other's findings across the globe. Their focus on robust evaluation means we know that this work has had an impact on important issues such as antimicrobial resistance, educational attainment and climate change. However, several critiques have also emerged; taken together, they suggest that applied behavioural science needs to evolve further over its next decade. This mani...

It is found that the contrastive loss meets a uniformity-tolerance dilemma, and a good choice of temperature can compromise these two properties properly to both learn separable features and tolerant to semantically similar samples, improving the feature qualities and the downstream performances.

Purpose Studies have highlighted concerns about the role of knowledge creation between human resource management practices and employee behaviour. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of green human resource management (green HRM) on employee green behaviour (EGB) through the mediation of environmental knowledge of lecturers in public research universities in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach This cross-sectional study examines the mechanism in which green HRM affects the EGB of lecturers through environmental knowledge in Malaysian public research universities. Smart PLS was...