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Many people believe that technology will solve the climate crisis. The World Economic Forum, for example, asserts that “we must invent our way out of climate change”. Whi…
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Storytelling is an essential part of being human. Stories are at the core of our memories, knowledge, and social interactions. Our brains are hardwired for storytelling…
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What if we understood our current ecological crisis as a “Human Behavioral Crisis”? That is how researchers, Merz et al (2023), have described it. In their paper, they a…
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Rare’s Centre for Behavior & the Environment has published a framework that includes six behavioural levers to apply when leading behaviour change campaigns.
They exp…
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In a recent Behavioural Scientist article, Dr. Vanessa Bohns articulates the ways in which we influence others without even realizing it. Through her research studie…
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I am curious if anyone else lives in a rural setting where the local/municipal level government has developed a program based around the villages/small towns in their go…
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A new article was published recently in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, which catalogues different types of failures in behaviour change programs as well as backfiring…
I’m sharing a recent article published in PLOSOne about a study carried out in Israel that investigated the effect of different messaging strategies on no-shows and appointment ca…
As described in this article, the firm The Behavioural Architects has released a free resource to help with physical distancing and people movement, specifically the behaviors of …
Last week, Rare hosted a webinar with behavioral economist and bestselling author Robert Frank, about how social norms can drive actions towards addressing climate change. A centr…
