Browse our latest useful nuggets, opinions, and findings as food for thought.

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๐Ÿ’” Intimacy famine, falling in love with phones and forgetting

First off, we show how categorising makes people think differently and how people change when they're permanently online.

We look at how forgetting can be good for us and how "intimacy starvation" is making people actually fall in love with their mobile phones.

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Dan Thwaites Dan Thwaites

๐Ÿ Car-driving fishes, how people deceive themselves, talking to others

We start with the welcome if perhaps hopeful news that uncertainty can be motivating to the different reasons and ways that people deceive themselves.

We look at the benefits (and barriers) of talking to people to people we donโ€™t know - and why this will be important for many of our audiences as they live through and emerge from lockdowns around the world.

Oh, and finally, we have a goldfish driving a car.

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Dan Thwaites Dan Thwaites

๐Ÿ’ฐ Money, the cloak of illusion and Behavioural Science on-demand

This month we look at the invisibility cloak illusion and why we think people are paying less attention to us than they really are.

We see academic studies on how the mental associations that people make with money tend to affect how they spend it and also how people "mentally launder" unethical income.

There is a new study on how using the internet in retirement boosts cognitive function and our 60-minute webinars are now available free on-demand.

Don't miss how to apply nudges and how to combine psychology and data.

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