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Climate Change: A Social Dilemma
In this piece, we uncover one of the behavioural challenges – the social dilemma in climate action.
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'You see me. But do you really see me?' : A Case of Fundamental Attribution Error
We underestimate the impact of the situation and environment on an individual’s behaviour and overestimate the influence of personality-based dispositional factors.
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‘Monkey see, monkey do’: How social norms can help in behaviour change
The environment has been particularized as an influential force on behaviour. For this, various contextual interventions are devised. One such is the community context – where the power of social norms is harnessed to make people behave better.
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Choice Architecture and Behaviour Change
There is an increased application of the interventions for individual behaviour change. For example, changing environmental cues have offered the potential to change behaviour. More commonly, they are referred to as choice architecture or nudge interventions.
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Stressed out ?: Psychological Factors Involved in Stressors
A dive into psychological stressors and factors
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Making Sustainable Behaviour a Social Default
Sustainable behaviour a social default
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Food and Behaviour: Your anger maybe because of what’s on your plate
Food and Behaviour
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Why can practical problem solving be difficult?
Barriers to effective decision-making and critical thinking
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Have you left your mind, or are you in the right mind?
Most of us have seen the looks of the gel ball inside our skull. And most of us have also experienced headaches; sometimes, it hurts on the top, left, right or front, but we rarely experience the pain all over. But it is less often that we grapple with how
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Is COVID-19 changing food consumption behaviour?
A recent study [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0956713521004904] conducted in China showed that COVID-19 had modified individual consumption behaviour concerning food purchase. There is no doubt that the unprecedented and relentless COVID-19 pandemic has transformed our lifestyles and limited our mobility. When it comes to alterations
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Air Pollution and Cognition
While there exists evidence regarding the severely harmful effects of air pollution on respiratory health, limited evidence can be found in terms of the consequences on cognition. Particulate matters (PM 2.5 & PM 10) are hazardous due to their ability to penetrate the lungs and affect the blood flow
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Up, up, & away: What do psychoactive drugs do to our consciousness?
"Uppers", as they are commonly known, are stimulants that fasten up the functioning of the nervous system (e.g., causing the heart rate to pace up or the brain to be hyperactive, or both). These psychoactive drugs open a shortcut to experiencing altered states of consciousness. Such drugs