The Network for Integrated Behavioural Science - The Science of Consumer Behaviour

Lead Research Organisation: University of Nottingham
Department Name: Sch of Economics

Abstract

Changes in the domain and complexity of consumer decision making raise key challenges for modern societies. Increasingly governments transfer responsibility for complex decisions away from the state towards the individual. The decline of state provision of social insurance and financial security has seen very important decisions, such as over retirement saving and personal protection insurance, become the responsibility of consumers, just as more familiar but often also highly complex decisions are. This project will drive forward scientific understanding of consumer behaviour in the face of difficult choices and of how public policy can intervene most effectively to promote their success.

The modern consumer faces decisions of bewildering complexity, with choices to be made between numerous options differing from one another in multiple ways. Consider e.g. all the specifications of mobile phone and new car available in typical modern economies, and all the different pension schemes or insurance products. Besides the number and complexity of the options, consumers face uncertainty e.g. about reliability, service quality or resale value. Even when a great deal of information is available, it may be framed by firms or suppliers in ways intended to induce particular customer responses e.g. via complex utility tariffs or terms and conditions for financial products. Many choices involve consideration of costs and benefits spread over time, e.g. lifestyle and savings decisions, or large consumer durable purchases.

Decades of research in behavioural science and psychology, and recent developments in behavioural economics, show that many individuals find even quite simple decisions difficult, are not always consistent, and often behave in ways reflecting biased or poor decision processes. The results can be highly detrimental to consumers concerned and, sometimes, to wider society.

Our research programme, drawing on economics and psychology and at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary behavioural science, will advance understanding of consumer behaviour. Theme 1 will study foundations of individual choice, with particular attention to decision processes and consumers' responses to features of their environment. Theme 2 will examine how firms frame and structure environments for actual and potential customers in the light of behavioural characteristics of consumers of varying sophistication. It will focus on how firms' strategies affect and are in turn affected by competition between firms. Understanding this interaction is vital to successful regulation of consumer markets. Theme 2 will also study the form of appropriate regulation directly, in collaboration with UK regulatory bodies. Theme 3 will apply lessons of behavioural science to personal and household financial decision making - an area of consumer behaviour that typifies the combination of choice between multiple, complex products; uncertainty; time; and potential for serious consumer detriment.

The work will be carried out by a team that is built out of, and develops, the existing Network for Behavioural Science, the hub of which is a partnership between leading behavioural science groups at the Universities of Nottingham, East Anglia and Warwick. The team will include world-renowned psychologists and economists, emerging scientists and team members with direct experience of consumer market regulation. The team will conduct and publicise research that achieves international academic recognition through publication in top-flight scientific journals and conferences. It will enhance the consumer environment for citizens by influencing policy formulation and consumer market regulation in the UK. By creating new data sets, training and nurturing researchers, and fostering an international research network with links between academics, the private sector and policy makers, the project will increase the research capacity of UK universities in behavioural science.

Planned Impact

The overarching aim of our proposal for continuation of the Network for Integrated Behavioural Science (NIBS) is to enhance the understanding of consumer behaviour and the well-being of individuals by improving decision making, the performance of markets, and policy and regulatory interventions in them.

Behavioural science offers transformative insights into how consumers make decisions, how firms respond to consumers, and what regulators and policy makers can do to improve decision making and the functioning of markets. Since its inception, NIBS has been at the forefront of translating academic research in behavioural science into policy-relevant applications. The structure of our future research plan is again to develop foundations and apply them, with the latter a major emphasis of our new research themes. There is scope for wide ranging application of our work across all themes but, given the scale of the project, we prioritise two of the most important areas here: financial decision making and competition policy.

We will expand the scope for influence of our research by developing new links with regulators and industry, forming collaborations with the Centre for Competition Policy and welcoming co-researchers on to the grant who hold Non-Executive Director roles at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the new cross-governmental UK Competition Network. These new project members bring the highest-level partnership with regulators and very extensive experience of bringing behavioural insights to bear on regulatory thinking across the UK policy environment.

We will also develop new ways of working which strengthen interaction and co-production of work with the research user community, by allocating time of post-doctoral research fellows to collaboration with the FCA's Behavioural Economics and Data Science Team, led by Dr Stefan Hunt. We see dedicated postdoctoral appointments as an ideal catalyst for increased collaboration. Postdoctoral fellows will hold academic research positions at NIBS institutions and spend a significant share of their time on location at the FCA, sitting within the FCA team.

We have developed collaborations with behavioural economics and data science groups within industry. One initiative involves collaboration with the data science team in a UK retail bank, a large player in the asset management industry with a 25% market share of privately managed asset portfolios in the UK, who have provided detailed asset trade data together with matched behavioural data from surveys. NIBS researchers have also developed a collaboration with the UK credit card sector and have combined transaction-level records for 1.8 million UK card holders from five credit card companies.

Our research will also inform and influence industry practices. Emerging research suggests that firms may be able to exploit the cognitive and behavioural biases of consumers. The possible resulting need for regulatory intervention provides the context for exciting and much needed future research work. The response of firms to 'behavioural consumers' is a focus of policy interest stressed in recent FCA studies (e.g. of the credit card market) and in other market studies (such as the CMA's Retail Banking Market Investigation).

NIBS researchers will continue to exploit the full scope of potential impacts, building on existing and new pathways, including statutory routes (consultation responses and presentations), expert advisory work and testimony, keynote addresses and contributions to public policy fora. We also seek new horizons of international impact, with a partnership with Gallup to investigate behavioural science issues worldwide. This collaboration has scope to achieve significant impact through dissemination of research findings through the news media.

Publications

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Description The Network for Integrated Behavioural Science (NIBS) is a cross-disciplinary initiative developing and translating the science of human decision making. This grant was the second wave of ESRC funding for NIBS and "NIBS2" focussed on developing and applying the behavioural science of consumer behaviour. The programme was organised around three themes: (1) The Network for Integrated Behavioural Science (NIBS) is a cross-disciplinary initiative developing and translating the science of human decision making. This grant was the second wave of ESRC funding for NIBS and "NIBS2" focussed on developing and applying the behavioural science of consumer behaviour. The programme was organised around three themes: (1) Foundations for understanding consumer behaviour; (2): Market responses to consumers and regulation of markets; and (3) Applications in personal financial decision making. The programme generated wide-ranging findings reported in over 100 publications (as of March 2023).

Under Theme 1, NIBS researchers conducted and reported numerous sub-projects investigating determinants of decision making and drawing on a range of conceptual approaches, theoretical modelling and empirical analysis. The latter drew extensively on analysis of field data plus a considerable body of new data gathered through numerous (lab and field) experiments, designed and conducted by NIBS2 researchers. Among the topics studied were the determinants of: ambiguity and risk preferences, including the role of emotions and information acquisition; information avoidance; inter-temporal choice and changes in time preferences across the life course; honest behaviour, the consequences of dishonest behaviour and other social influences on decision making (e.g. peer effects and relationship closeness); the psychological foundations of reasoning and bargaining; and subjective well-being. We also studied the roles of attention, learning and the impacts of framing and nudging.

We provide more specific illustrations for the more applied Themes 2 and 3.

Our Theme 2 example relates to growing public concern about the apparent unfairness of many trading practices that are emerging in (often digital) consumer markets, and which work only because 'naïve' consumers do not behave like the rational agents of traditional economics. In competitive markets, the overall effect is often to harm naïve consumers but to benefit sophisticated ones. That such practices should be regulated against as unfair is hard to express in terms of the standard welfare-economic categories of efficiency and distribution. Behavioural economists often treat unfair trading practices as exploiting psychological 'biases' which interpose between 'true' preferences and actual choices, but the concept of true preference is empirically ungrounded. Building on our earlier theoretical and philosophical work, we have developed a concept of transactional fairness that is distinct from efficiency and distribution, and does not presuppose true preferences. It establishes clear principles that can guide firms and regulators.

Theme 3 translated new foundational insights into better understanding of consumer behaviour and detriment in financial markets. We built on the collaborations established during NIBS1, such as that with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). For example, in NIBS2, researchers worked with the FCA on behavioural field trials, testing interventions to reduce consumer detriment in the credit card market. In addition, researchers worked in partnership with the financial sector (including UK Cards, Barclays Stockbroking, and Lloyds Banking Group) on topics such as how consumers make debt repayment decisions across multiple credit cards and how consumers make diversification choices in stock portfolios. These insights supported product innovation and development among financial services.
Exploitation Route We hope and expect that the outcomes of our project will benefit researchers and advance thinking in disciplines that study consumer behaviour, individual decision making, strategies of firms, and public policy. Such disciplines include e.g. economics, psychology, decision and management sciences, and disciplines concerned with regulation and public policy towards consumers, firms and consumer markets.

Our work has already had impact on policy and thinking in various organisations including firms in the financial services sector and organizations in the UK regulatory sector. We expect the influence our our work to grow and we will document this further in our impact narrative statement in Researchfish, in due course.
Sectors Chemicals,Construction,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice,Retail

URL https://www.behavioural-science.ac.uk/research/index.aspx
 
Description The NIBS Network has provided a forum for cutting edge cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional academic collaboration on behavioural science. Our research has resulted in evidence that will aid predication of consumer behaviour and inform those seeking to influence human behaviour. Members of the Network have been working, and continue to work, with an expanding range of organisations in the public sector, private sector and third sector who seek to influence the way humans behave in multiple ways, from encouraging better debt-management to improved medicines adherence or increased participation in democratic processes. We have pursued these connections through several routes, one of which has involved engaging non-academic stakeholders at NIBS events. This has led to collaborative research and sharing of ideas; access to data sets that may otherwise have been unavailable; and the opportunity for NIBS members to be active in external events organised by non-academic stakeholders, such as the FCA and CMA. We have developed numerous projects with public, private and third sector organisations involving various levels of collaboration with partners throughout the research. We will report more fully on project's impact at the next submission in 2024. Meanwhile current outputs are detailed in Researchfish and future outputs will be added as they arise. As of March 2023, Researchfish records over 250 engagement activities; more than 20 collaborations and partnerships and numerous influences on policy, practice, patients and the public.
First Year Of Impact 2018
Sector Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice
Impact Types Societal,Economic,Policy & public services

 
Description Citation in Power to the People (Penrose Report) BS
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/9616...
 
Description ESRC Behavioural Science Scoping Review: Academic consultation CVS
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description Evidence submitted to BEIS Consumer Green Paper 'Modernising Consumer Markets' and to BEIS Competition Law Review BL
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consumer-green-paper-modernising-consumer-markets
 
Description FCA Fair Treatment of Vulnerable Customers BS BL
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description FCA General Insurance Pricing Practices Market Study BL
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description Fair Pricing in Financial Services (FCA) BS BL
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact Following their response to the consultation, Bob and Bruce were invited to present their ideas at several regulatory agencies (see below). These agencies are working to improve the regulatory environment for the benefit of consumers. 25 March 2019 (with Bruce Lyons): invited presentation on 'transactional unfairness' to staff at Ofcom 24 June 2019 (with Bruce Lyons): meeting at Financial Conduct Authority (at their invitation) to discuss fair pricing and transactional unfairness 3 October 2019 with Bruce Lyons): invited presentation on 'Transactional fairness and unfair price discrimination in consumer markets' to regulators at Financial Conduct Authority (attended by staff who missed the 24 June event) 3 October 2019 with Bruce Lyons): invited presentation on 'Transactional fairness and unfair price discrimination in consumer markets' 'transactional fairness' to regulators at Ofgem
URL http://competitionpolicy.ac.uk/documents/8158338/28916580/CCP+response_fair+pricing+financial+servic...
 
Description Markets that work for all: helping vulnerable consumers - CMA Symposium GL AF
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
 
Description Presentation to Regulatory Policy Committee NC & AF
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact The Regulatory Policy Committee carries out independent scrutiny of government regulations. The Committee invited Amelia Fletcher (UEA) and Nick Chater (Warwick) to present at a meeting in March 2018 as they are interested in how behavioural insight can influence regulation, and using behavioural insights as an alternative to regulations. The impact of this work has not yet been fully realised. For details about RPC work www.gov.uk/rpc
 
Description Review of Fair Value in a Digital Age BS BL
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
Impact The FCA has a business plan to deliver 'fair value in a digital age', indeed this is one of the regulator's four external priorities over the next few years. They aim to ensure consumers get fair value by having the right information about suitable products, by ensuring competition is available and that there is fair treatment for vulnerable customers. One aspect of this is using firms' reporting data tin order to identify firms that continue to engage in price walking (when new insurance customers receive more competitive and cheaper premiums compared to long-standing customers renewing their cover).
 
Description Risk Compensation During Covid-19 (AL)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Roundtable on "Regulating for Competition", arranged by the FCA - AF
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
 
Description Roundtable with CMA on issues arising from the Citizen's Advice super-complaint into loyalty penalties AF
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact The CMA has responded to the Super Complaint by issuing a number of recommendations to regulators and government to help stop loyal consumers being ripped off. It has also made recommendations to the FCA and Ofcom in each of the 5 markets, where work is currently underway. More details online: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-tackles-loyalty-penalty-charges
URL https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-to-investigate-loyalty-penalty-super-complaint
 
Description Transactional Fairness at Beesley Lecture BS BL
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or Improved professional practice
Impact The Penrose Report on transactional fairness recommends "CMA should update its guidelines on what treating customers fairly means in practice, including 'transactional fairness' in its work" (referring to Lyons & Sugden, 2020: "Transactional fairness and unfair price discrimination in consumer markets"). This lecture by John Penrose, was given to regulators and endorses that recommendation.
URL http://johnpenrose.org/wp/2021/10/23/johns-full-beesley-lecture/
 
Description Transactional Unfairness and Price Discrimination - Response to Ofgem Consultation BL BS
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/ofgem-publications/154121
 
Description Unlocking Digital Markets Report led to a new UK watchdog AF
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
Impact Following the publication of the Unlocking Digital Market report (Furman Review) and further work by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), it has now been reported in the Financial Times (27 November 2020) that the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has announced a 'Digital Markets Unit' will be launched in April 2021 inside the UK's existing competition watchdog - the CMA. This new new tech regulator will try to hold huge online platforms such as Google, Facebook and Amazon in check against their smaller rivals. Professor Amelia Fletcher (NIBS Co-Investigator) was appointed to the HM Treasury-commissioned Digital Competition Expert Panel, and was a co-author of the 'Unlocking Digital Markets' report (March 2019). She is Professor of Competition Policy at Norwich Business School and Deputy Director at the Centre for Competition Policy. She is a Non-Executive Director of the CMA, and has been a Non-Executive Director of the Financial Conduct Authority (2013-20). Her academic work focuses on competition policy, consumer policy and sector regulation, with a particular focus on behavioural economics and digital markets. She was appointed OBE in 2014 and CBE in 2020.
 
Description Worked with FCA to design research into Rent-to-Own goods which resulted in a National Consultation & New Policy JG
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/policy/ps19-06.pdf
 
Description Written Report Published as Support Material in a Consultation by Office for Rail and Road NC
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL http://orr.gov.uk/rail/consultations/pr18-consultations/consultation-on-orrs-policy-on-holding-netwo...
 
Description ESRC IAA Strategic Award 'Promoting Medicines Adherence through Low-Cost Interventions'
Amount £37,160 (GBP)
Organisation University of Nottingham 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2019 
End 07/2021
 
Description The CIVIC Project: A Sustainable Platform for COVID-19 syndromic-surveillance via Health, Deprivation and Mass Loyalty-Card Datasets
Amount £233,965 (GBP)
Funding ID EP/V053922/1 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 12/2020 
End 12/2021
 
Title Survey Tool CVS 
Description Chris Starmer & Emily Wyman (Nottingham), and Umar Taj (Warwick) have developed survey tool for UNDP to evaluate the impact of anti-radicalisation strategies. The tool is based on NIBS 1 work around oneness and cohesion with Simon Gaechter and Fabio Tufano (both Nottingham). 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2018 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact The tool is not published, but some of the under pining research is (Measuring the Closeness of Relationships: A Comprehensive Evaluation of the 'Inclusion of the Other in the Self' Scale by Simon Gächter, Chris Starmer, Fabio Tufano in PLOS Published 12 June 2015). Data has also been gathered using the tool and preliminary results were presented at a user-facing workshop on Friday 7 December 2018. We are expecting the impact of this tool to grow. 
 
Description Adam Land - Competition and Markets Authority 
Organisation Competition and Markets Authority
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Adam Land is a member of our Advisory Group and is invited to attend NIBS events. We reimburse his travel and accommodation costs, and also invite him to join in the discussions/ give presentations to the Network, where appropriate.
Collaborator Contribution Adam attends NIBS events and contributes to discussions around policy making.
Impact Any outcomes that result in our collaboration with Adam at the CMA will be recorded under the relevant section of the database.
Start Year 2017
 
Description Albert Weale University College London 
Organisation University College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Albert Weale from University College London is a member of our Advisory Group (for NIBS1 and NIBS2) and is invited to our NIBS events. We fund travel, accommodation and conference fees where applicable.
Collaborator Contribution Albert is able to attend events and provide advice and support to NIBS.
Impact We value the continued support of our Advisory Group members, and any research collaborations which resulted from this involvement will be listed in the relevant section.
Start Year 2013
 
Description Andrew Colman University of Leicester 
Organisation University of Leicester
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Andrew is a member of our Advisory Group (NIBS1 and NIBS2) and regularly attends and supports NIBS events (we fund travel, accommodation and conference fees where applicable).
Collaborator Contribution Andrew Colman regularly attends our events and contributes to these by giving presentations and networking with colleagues.
Impact Andrew is actively involved in research projects with NIBS co-investigators, and in particular is working with Graham Loomes at Warwick (and his colleague Briony Pulford at Leicester). Publications / Working Papers which have been a result of these collaborations are reported in the relevant section of this database.
Start Year 2013
 
Description Approaches to measuring individual creativity MB CVS 
Organisation University of Konstanz
Country Germany 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Research on approaches to measuring individual creativity will form part of the PhD project of Malte Baader, and is joint work with Urs Fischbacher (University of Konstanz). This also involves exchange visits between Nottingham and Konstanz.
Collaborator Contribution The work builds on the results of a previous experiment which Malte developed in collaboration with Urs Fischbacher. Urs visited Nottingham In October/November 2018.
Impact The primary objective of the proposed study is to try to develop and test a cost effective, fast and portable tool to measure an individual's creative problem-solving potential. Our hunch is that creativity is a meaningful individual-level characteristic and that understanding heterogeneity in creativity may be an important ingredient in developing and understanding of individual decisions and choice processes. And also that an individual's measured creativity may be predictive of features of their preferences or their choice processes. This has implications for choice-based decision making.
Start Year 2017
 
Description Behavioural Finance University of Hamburg JW 
Organisation University of Hamburg
Country Germany 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Joerg Weber undertook a 5-day research visit to the University of Hamburg at the end of February 2018. The purpose of the research visit (funded through the NIBS Exchange Programme) was to work intensively on an existing project, and to deepen the established links with the Chair of Behavioural Finance. The project is about the role of inattention in consumer refinancing decisions, using a proprietary dataset from a large German bank that is exclusively available at the University of Hamburg. The data includes 2 million observations of all bank customers and their transactions who opened a specific revolving loan during the sample period. These customers are offered, by the bank, to switch to a cheaper loan, but many fail to do so. The data is uniquely suited to study the role of inattention on the failure to optimize, because we observe nudges in the form of letters and emails to the consumers, prompting them to refinance to the cheaper loan.
Collaborator Contribution The dataset used for this research is exclusively available at the University of Hamburg.
Impact This project has great potential because inattention is a topic that is currently of great academic and policy interest. The research visit enabled Joerg to take the project to the next level in an intensive face-to-face working period with the Chair of Behavioural Finance at Hamburg; and there are plans to present results to the data-providing bank later in 2018
Start Year 2018
 
Description Behavioural Insights Team Advisory Panel NC 
Organisation Cabinet Office
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Nick Chater is on the Advisory Panel for the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) - and listed as an Academic Affilate on their website. This is an on-going position through the NIBS1 and NIBS2 funding period.
Collaborator Contribution The Behavioural Insights Team exists to improve people's lives and communities. The Team has grown from a seven-person unit within UK government to an independent organisation, jointly owned by the UK Cabinet Office, innovation charity Nesta and its employees. Their work has spanned 31 countries in the last year, and they have run more than 750 projects to date, including 400 randomised controlled trials in dozens of countries. They have also launched an Executive Education programme with Warwick Business School.
Impact Nick Chater has not provided details of specific outcomes resulting from this collaboration, but the Behavioural Insights Team works to translate the best of behavioural science into policy and practice, and this collaboration is of benefit to many different consumers.
Start Year 2014
 
Description Carnegie Mellon University 
Organisation Carnegie Mellon University
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Carnegie Mellon is one of seven international partners working with NIBS and, as such, we have an ongoing dialogue and several shared research projects and activities. This includes visits by CMU PhD students to UK based NIBS partners, and reciprocal visits to the USA. These include: April 2016 - several CMU members (PhDs and Faculty) attended the NIBS 2016 workshop which took place at UEA, and some presented their work. September 2017 - several NIBS1 members visited CMU for a workshop which was specifically tailored to the research interests of our group Oct/November 2018 - Orestis Kospacheilis visited CMU and met with George Loewentein (CMU) & Valeria Burdea (Pittsburgh) to discuss different work including the persuasion project December 2019 - Valeria Burdea (former CeDEx PhD) visited Nottingham for 2 weeks to continue this work with Orestis.
Collaborator Contribution This is a two-way collaboration/ exchange with our international partner.
Impact We are building on the relationship established during NIBS 1 and details of individual outputs (including research papers, workshops and exchange visits) are logged individually in the appropriate section of Researchfish. For example, PhD student David Hagmann (from CMU) visited the University of Nottingham in November 2017 to discuss his research at a Brown Bag Seminar.
Start Year 2013
 
Description Daniel Hausman University of Wisconsin-Madison 
Organisation University of Wisconsin-Madison
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Daniel Hausman University of Wisconsin-Madison is a member of our advisory group (NIBS1 and NIBS2) and is invited to events. We fund accommodation, travel and conference fees where applicable.
Collaborator Contribution Daniel presented at our NIBS1 public conference in April 2016, at the University of East Anglia.
Impact Daniel shared his knowledge/ information at the NIBS 2016 public conference and any outcomes that resulted from this are listed under the relevant section of the database.
Start Year 2013
 
Description Ian Bateman UEA 
Organisation University of East Anglia
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Ian is a member of our Advisory Group (NIBS1 and NIBS2). He is invited to all our NIBS funded events and we pay for travel, accommodation and conference fees (where applicable).
Collaborator Contribution As a member of the Advisory Group, Ian provides advice, support and guidance to NIBS to help shape our research around NIBS themes and to better link research with policy/ business/ impact.
Impact n/a
Start Year 2014
 
Description Intuitive cooperation & give/take framing in public goods game and impact of time pressure CVS 
Organisation Dogus University
Country Turkey 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Chris Starmer has been working specifically on two projects with Ozan Isler - a former visiting scholar to CeDEx in Nottingham 2014-2017, and now Assistant Professor of Experimental and Behavioural Economics at Dogus University, Istanbul The first is around intuitive cooperation and the second is on give/take framing in public goods game and impact of time pressure.
Collaborator Contribution Collaborative working by both parties. The 'intuitive cooperation' project also involves J Maule from the University of Leeds.
Impact A paper has been publishes on the work around intuitive cooperation (published PLoS ONE 13(1): e0190560, 2018) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190560 Two experiments have been conducted and a paper is in preparation for submission to Psych Science for the second project around give/take framing.
Start Year 2014
 
Description Julian Le Grand London School of Economics 
Organisation London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Julian Le Grand from London School of Economics is an Advisory Group member (NIBS1 and NIBS2) and invited to events. NIBS funds his travel, accommodation and conference fees where applicable.
Collaborator Contribution Julian gave a keynote talk at our NIBS 2016 international public conference which took place at the University of East Anglia (April 2016).
Impact Julian shared his knowledge and information with the NIBS cohort and wider audience at our event in 2016, and any collaborations which resulted from this will be recorded under the relevant output section.
Start Year 2013
 
Description Karen Croxson - Financial Conduct Authority 
Organisation Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Under NIBS1, we developed very close links with the FCA and Stefan Hunt was a member of our Advisory Group, which continued into NIBS2. During 2018 Stefan left the FCA for another post and Karen Croxson agreed to join our Advisory Group to represent the FCA
Collaborator Contribution Karen attended our NIBS September meeting in 2018 and contributed to our discussion around issues of relevance to policy makers. We hope she will continue to engage with us, and in particular with the work around the NIBS2 themes led by John Gathergood and Neil Stewart.
Impact There have been several outcomes from various collaborations between NIBS Co-Investigators and the FCA including, publications, advice and guidance relating to policy. These are all listed under the relevant section in this database.
Start Year 2018
 
Description Max Planck Berlin 
Organisation Max Planck Society
Country Germany 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The Max Planck Institute in Berlin is one of seven international partners (NIBS1 and NIBS2). There have been various interactions between the two organisations over the years, including: * Sudeep Bhatai (NIBS1 PhD) was invited to give a talk on 16 April 2015. His talk was on the adaptive nature of associative processing, and he expected this topic to interest a large group of scholars at MPI, both due to its emphasis on adaptive judgment, and for its use of a heuristic that is often the subject of criticism from the MPI crowd. * Gordon Brown (Co-Investigator) organised a workshop in Berlin during April 2016 involving both partners and other collaborators * Orestis Kopsacheilis (Post Doc) networked with MPI colleagues at SJDM in New Orleans (2018) and has an open invitation to visit MPI and present hsi research
Collaborator Contribution This is an ongoing partnership with NIBS which involves collaborations and exchange programmes.
Impact Specific outcomes are listed in the relevant section of this database.
Start Year 2013
 
Description Mechanisms behind Nudging Adherence: A Randomised Controlled Trial SB CVS 
Organisation Boots UK
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution NIBS colleagues, the School of Psychology (Nottingham), Boots and various pharmaceutical companies are working together to undertake a national-scale, cross-discipline, investigation to enhance our understanding of the mechanisms behind nudges designed to improve a specific health behaviour: medication adherence. The investigation will take the form of a randomised controlled trial, at the pharmacy level, to test the efficacy of commitment nudges, combined with a mixed methods investigation into the mechanisms leading to the nudge effects. We plan to undertake the research project in two stages. First, a pilot study will be conducted involving 20 independent pharmacies around Nottingham. The second stage will be a scaled-up investigation rolled out nationally across the UK community pharmacy industry.
Collaborator Contribution Colleagues at the School of Psychology and Boots have had input into the design of the investigation, and the actual healthcare interventions will be undertaken by pharmacies.
Impact This is still at an early stage with the pilot expected to run in late 2018.
Start Year 2018
 
Description Mechanisms behind Nudging Adherence: A Randomised Controlled Trial SB CVS 
Organisation University of Nottingham
Department School of Psychology Nottingham
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution NIBS colleagues, the School of Psychology (Nottingham), Boots and various pharmaceutical companies are working together to undertake a national-scale, cross-discipline, investigation to enhance our understanding of the mechanisms behind nudges designed to improve a specific health behaviour: medication adherence. The investigation will take the form of a randomised controlled trial, at the pharmacy level, to test the efficacy of commitment nudges, combined with a mixed methods investigation into the mechanisms leading to the nudge effects. We plan to undertake the research project in two stages. First, a pilot study will be conducted involving 20 independent pharmacies around Nottingham. The second stage will be a scaled-up investigation rolled out nationally across the UK community pharmacy industry.
Collaborator Contribution Colleagues at the School of Psychology and Boots have had input into the design of the investigation, and the actual healthcare interventions will be undertaken by pharmacies.
Impact This is still at an early stage with the pilot expected to run in late 2018.
Start Year 2018
 
Description Michael Jones-Lee Newcastle University 
Organisation Newcastle University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Michael Jones-Lee from Newcastle University is a member of our Advisory Group (NIBS1 and NIBS2). He is kept informed of events/ information and news from NIBS and we will fund travel, accommodation and conference fees where applicable in order to enable him to attend events.
Collaborator Contribution Michael is able to provide NIBS with advice and guidance.
Impact I'm not directly aware of any impacts, but any outcomes which have resulted from this collaboration will be listed under the relevant section of Researchfish.
Start Year 2013
 
Description Michael Spackman NERA Economic Consulting 
Organisation NERA Consulting
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Michael Spackman NERA Economic Consulting is a member of our Advisory Group (NIBS1 & NIBS2). He is very active and attends almost all of our NIBS events. We provide funding for his travel, accommodation and conference fees where applicable.
Collaborator Contribution Michael provides advice, support and guidance to NIBS and also provides written feedback after each event he attends. His provides advice about making research more relevant to business, government and policymakers and is a vital link with our impact agenda.
Impact Michael has provided useful advice and guidance which has helped to shape NIBS events (topic, theme and structure) and the NIBS bidding process (where NIBS funded colleagues bid for funds to undertake relevant work).
Start Year 2014
 
Description Osama Rahman Ministry of Justice 
Organisation Ministry of Justice
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Osama Rahman from the Ministry of Justice was a member of our Advisory Group under NIBS1 (and NIBS 2 until April 2018). He was invited to events and NIBS fund travel, accommodation and conference fees where applicable. Osama was appointed as the Department for Education's Director of Analysis and Chief Scientific Adviser in April 2018, when he left his post in the Ministry of Justice. He stepped down from our Advisory Group, however he remains on our stakeholder list and receives our regular NIBS newsletter.
Collaborator Contribution Osama was invited to attend events and was able to provide support & advice to NIBS. Although no longer a member of our Advisory Group, he receives our NIBS newsletter and is welcome to engage with NIBS in the future.
Impact I am not aware of any specific outcomes which arose from this collaboration, other than a sharing of ideas and knowledge.
Start Year 2014
 
Description Rent-to-own price cap JG 
Organisation Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution John Gathergood (Nottingham) worked with the FCA to design and implement research into the effect of use of rent-to-own financial products on consumer outcomes. This resulted in a consultation paper, published by the FCA in November 2018, and a policy proposal to limit product pricing and interest charges in the rent-to-own market. https://www.fca.org.uk/publications/consultation-papers/cp18-35-rent-own-alternatives-high-cost-credit-feedback-cp18-12-consultation-price-cap
Collaborator Contribution This was a collaboration.
Impact The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) confirmed the introduction of a price cap to protect some of the most vulnerable customers in the UK in the rent-to-own (RTO) sector. The cap took effect on 1 April 2019 and it was estimated to save consumers in the UK up to £22.7 million a year. https://www.fca.org.uk/news/press-releases/fca-confirms-introduction-rent-own-price-cap
Start Year 2018
 
Description Stavros Georgiou Health and Safety Executive 
Organisation Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Stavros Georgiou (HSE) is a member of our NIBS Advisory Group (NIBS1 and NIBS2). He is funded to attend NIBS events and conferences (travel, accommodation and meals are provided by NIBS). If Stavros is unable to attend, he often sends a colleague (Bev Bishop) to attend in his place and we have made good links with the HSE through this commitment.
Collaborator Contribution Stavros attends NIBS events and conferences, he feeds back comments about the way forward and provides advice and guidance to NIBS
Impact Stavros and his colleagues at HSE have provided feedback and advice on NIBS, our research and the way forward to help us link research with impact. He is an active Advisory Group member and contributes regularly at NIBS events.
Start Year 2014
 
Description Stefan Hunt - FCA & CMA 
Organisation Competition and Markets Authority
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Stefan Hunt is a long-standing member of the NIBS Advisory Group. He attended our NIBS events as a representative of the Financial Conduct Authority until 2018 when he took up a new post at the Competition and Markets Authority. We are very happy he was able to continue his role on our Advisory Group after his new appointment.
Collaborator Contribution Stefan is a member of our NIBS Advisory Group and actively attends events and contributes towards the development of NIBS2 (and previously NIBS1). He is also an Honourary Professor at the University of Nottingham and a member of the School of Economics Advisory Group.
Impact Stefan has presented work at the NIBS events which has led to further collaborations with NIBS colleagues. He works closely with NIBS Co-Investigators John Gathergood and Neil Stewart on issues relating to household finance. This has resulted in several publications, policy briefings and changes to policy - all of which are logged in the relevant section within this database.
Start Year 2014
 
Description Stefan Hunt - FCA & CMA 
Organisation Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Stefan Hunt is a long-standing member of the NIBS Advisory Group. He attended our NIBS events as a representative of the Financial Conduct Authority until 2018 when he took up a new post at the Competition and Markets Authority. We are very happy he was able to continue his role on our Advisory Group after his new appointment.
Collaborator Contribution Stefan is a member of our NIBS Advisory Group and actively attends events and contributes towards the development of NIBS2 (and previously NIBS1). He is also an Honourary Professor at the University of Nottingham and a member of the School of Economics Advisory Group.
Impact Stefan has presented work at the NIBS events which has led to further collaborations with NIBS colleagues. He works closely with NIBS Co-Investigators John Gathergood and Neil Stewart on issues relating to household finance. This has resulted in several publications, policy briefings and changes to policy - all of which are logged in the relevant section within this database.
Start Year 2014
 
Description University of Konstanz 
Organisation University of Konstanz
Country Germany 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The Thurgau Institute of Economics at the University of Konstanz is one of seven international partners. Over the years we have undertaken various collaborative activities such as: Chris Starmer visited Konstanz from 3 -5 November 2015 (inclusive) and gave a series of talks to their students. At which time the University agreed to facilitate an exchange programme to consist of short exchange visits to Nottingham of Behavioural Masters Students in their second year at Konstanz and also PhD students whose research themes align with NIBS. This took place in 2016 and was well received by students both in Konstanz and Nottingham. The CeDEx research centre at Nottingham continues to promote the dual-MSc programme.
Collaborator Contribution Konstanz funded travel/accommodation for the visit by Chris Starmer in 2015 and facilitated the exchange visit, which NIBS funded in terms of travel and accommodation. We also continue an ongoing relationship with Urs Fischbacher at Konstanz, who regularly attends Nottingham to undertake specialist software training sessions (z-Tree).
Impact This is an ongoing relationship and specific outcomes are listed in the relevant section of the database. However the benefits overall of this partnership revolve around the sharing of knowledge and learning between both universities, and joint work/ research.
Start Year 2013
 
Title UNDP Survey Tool CVS 
Description Chris Starmer & Emily Wyman (Nottingham) and Umar Taj (Warwick) have developed a survey tool for UNDP to evaluate impact of anti-radicalisation strategies. the tool is based on NIBS1 work on Oneness/cohesion with Simon Gaechter and Fabio Tufano. 
Type Of Technology New/Improved Technique/Technology 
Year Produced 2018 
Impact We are not aware of the impacts at this time as the project is still ongoing and UNDP will be using the tool and then reporting back (as of November 2018) 
 
Description - Choice Overload and Asymmetric Dominance: experiment and theory SS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact - Choice Overload and Asymmetric Dominance: experiment and theory - presentation by NIBS collaborator, Stefania Sitzia, at the NIBS September 2020 Workshop, Day One, 14 September 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description - Choosing Not to Know, Choosing Not to Tell: Information Avoidance and Moral Wiggle Room RMD 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Choosing Not to Know, Choosing Not to Tell: Information Avoidance and Moral Wiggle Room - presentation by Rebecca McDonald at the NIBS September 2020 Workshop on 16 September 2020. Fascinating research that looks at how we choose to avoid information which tells us our actions are selfish.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description A "horse race" between elicitation methods of Cumulative Prospect Theory (NIBS) OK 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact A "horse race" between elicitation methods of Cumulative Prospect Theory was presented by Orestis Kopsacheilis at the NIBS Workshop, 18 to 20 September 2019 at the University of Warwick.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description A "horse race" between elicitation methods of Cumulative Prospect Theory OK 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact A "horse race" between elicitation methods of Cumulative Prospect Theory was presented by Orestis Kopsacheilis at ESA California 2019, Los Angeles, 11-13 October 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description A "horse race" between elicitation methods of Cumulative Prospect Theory OK 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A "horse race" between elicitation methods of Cumulative Prospect Theory was presented by NIBS Post Doc, Orestis Kopsacheilis at SPUDM 2019, which took place 19 August in Amsterdam.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/a14b80_71d427eb956846059ee5400737721a81.pdf
 
Description A Process-tracing Study on the Attraction Effect NP 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact A Process-tracing Study on the Attraction Effect - presentation by Neo Poon (NIBS PhD Student at Warwick Business School) at the NIBS September 2020 Workshop, 14 September.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description A Win-Win: Nurturing Reciprocity in Markets BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Bob Sugden and Chris Starmer attended the launch of a new book by Adam Oliver - Reciprocity and the Art of Behavioural Public Policy, published by Cambridge University Press in July 2019. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108647755

As part of the launch event, which took place on 23 October 2019, Bob was invited to speak. His commentary on the book and its themes, has been published in the BPP blog (5 November 2019). The BPP Blog is the companion to the journal Behavioural Public Policy. It aims to provide expert opinions and analysis from all areas of behavioural science and the policy implications that can be drawn from this research. As a forum for exchange between academics from any discipline as well as policy-makers and practitioners, the BPP Blog aims to provide a home for the varied community of people interested in behavioural public policy.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://bppblog.com/2019/11/05/a-win-win-nurturing-reciprocity-in-markets/
 
Description A battle of ideas: Resisting persuasion to avoid defeat OK 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Orestis Kopsacheilis presented "A battle of ideas: Resisting persuasion to avoid defeat" at the Center for Behavioral and Decision Research lab meeting, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh on 7 October 2019. CMU is one of our NIBS International Partners and this presentation was part of a wider visit to discuss current collaborative research projects.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description A horse-race between risk elicitation methods (Berlin) OK 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Orestis was hosted by the Center for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, 3-7 February 2020. The Center is an international partner of NIBS and during his stay, Orestis had the chance to present to the group his NIBS-funded project: "A horse-race between risk elicitation methods" as well as to discuss in one-to-one meetings a variety of other NIBS-funded projects that Orestis is involved in. This was part of an Exchange Programme visit (which has been recorded separately).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description A new approach to measuring choice overload - a field experiment MW 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact A new approach to measuring choice overload - a field experiment (with Bob Sugden and Jiwei Zheng) was presented by Mengjie Want (UEA Post Doc) at the NIBS Workshop, 18 to 20 September 2019 at the University of Warwick.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description A revolution in our sense of self NC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact A revolution in our sense of self was an opinion piece by Nick Chater, published in the Guardian on 1 April 2018. "In a radical reassessment of how the mind works, a leading behavioural scientist argues the idea of a deep inner life is an illusion. This is cause for celebration, he says, not despair". The full text of the article is currently available online via the Guardian website. At the time of writing this (11 December 2018) the article had been shared 1,328 times and there were 206 comments online.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/01/revolution-in-our-sense-of-self-sunday-essay
 
Description Academics Roundtable on Competition Law Review BL 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 22 June 2018 - Bruce presented his work at the Academics Roundtable on Competition Law Review, which took place at BEIS London.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Age brings patience to the rich but impatience to the poor DR 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Daniel Read presented, "Age brings patience to the rich but impatience to the poor" at SPUDM, University of Amsterdam, 19-22 August 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description An introduction to dishonesty in behavioural economics DA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 11-13 September 2019 - Despoina Alempaki presented, "An introduction to dishonesty in behavioural economics" at the Warwick Bridges/CAGE Summer School in Behavioural Economics (Venice).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Are Individuals' Long-term Goals Context Dependent? MW 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Are Individuals' Long-term Goals Context Dependent? - presentation by Mengjie Wang (NIBS Research Fellow based at UEA) at the NIBS September 2020 Workshop - 14 September.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Are You Paying Off Credit Card Debt the Wrong Way? JW 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Are You Paying Off Credit Card Debt the Wrong Way? was published in Wise Bread, by Dr Penny Pincher on 13 February 2018. This article was informed by research undertaken by John Gathergood, Neale Mahoney, Neil Stewart and Joerg Weber. It was one of a series of articles across different media channels which highlighted this research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.wisebread.com/are-you-paying-off-credit-card-debt-the-wrong-way
 
Description Assessing Choice Overload in a Complex Environment (FUR) RC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Robin Cubitt is presenting Assessing Choice Overload in a Complex Environment at FUR 2018 being held 25 to 28 June at York.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.furconference.org/fur-2018/
 
Description Assessing choice overload in a complex environment (ESA) CVS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Chris Starmer presented Assessing choice overload in a complex environment at the ESA meeting, held in Berlin 28 June to 1 July 2018. This paper was previously presented at the NIBS 1 2017 Autumn Workshop, by Robin Cubitt.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://esa2018world.wzb.eu/wp-content/uploads/16/2018/06/ESA-Conference-Program.pdf
 
Description Assessing choice overload in a complex environment (SABE) CVS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Chris Starmer presented Assessing choice overload in a complex environment at the SABE / IARPE conference taking place 19-22 July 2018 at Middlesex University
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://economics.mdx.ac.uk/sabe-2018/program/#papers
 
Description Behavioural Consumers and Competition with a particular focus on consumer engagement and inattention BL 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact 6th April 2018 - Bruce Lyons organised an Ofcom/CCP workshop on "Behavioural Consumers and Competition with a particular focus on consumer engagement and inattention" which was built around presentations by the UEA NIBS members Fletcher, Lyons, Turocy and Sugden.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Behavioural Science and Consumer Psychology: The Price Rank Principle GB 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact November 2017 - Gordon Brown presented, "Behavioural Science and Consumer Psychology: The Price Rank Principle" at the Revenue Management and Pricing International Conference in London (Invited speaker)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Behavioural biases and competition policy, with a focus on demand side remedies AF 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Amelia Fletcher presented on 'Behavioural biases and competition policy, with a focus on demand side remedies' at the ECN Chief Competition Economists Working Group Annual Meeting which took place on 10 November 2017, London. It involved around 40 Chief Economists and colleagues from DGComp and EC National Competition Authorities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Black Box Thinking in the Lab: Why we Avoid Reporting Mistakes SB 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Black Box Thinking in the Lab: Why we Avoid Reporting Mistakes - presentation by Sarah Bowen (NIBS PhD student at University of Nottingham) at the NIBS September 2020 Workshop, 16 September.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description CA/CCP workshop on price discrimination BL 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact 15 March 2018. Bruce organised a CA/CCP workshop on price discrimination (including behaviour consumer issues) which took place at UEA. He also presented his research at the workshop.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description CCC Workshop in Amsterdam May 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The annual CCC meeting is a collaboration between CeDEx, CREED and CBESS - the three behavioural science centres at Nottingham, Amsterdam and East Anglia. It's a PhD-led workshop which gives students the opportunity to present their research to a wider than usual peer group. Responsiblity for hosting the meeting rotates between the three institutions and in 2019, it was the turn of the University of Amsterdam. A decision was made to extend the meeting in 2019 to also include Network colleagues from the University of Warwick.

Presenting from NIBS were: Merle van den Akker (Warwick), Neo Poon (Warwick), Sarah Bowen (Nottingham), Malte Baader (Nottingham), Orestis Kopsacheilis (Nottingham), Prachi Hejib (UEA). Attending from NIBS were: Richard Mills (Nottingham), Lara Suraci (Konstanz/Nottingham), Sidney Sherborne (Warwick) Yu-Chun Huang (Warwick), Mengjie Wang (UEA), Professor Bob Sugden (UEA), Professor Chris Starmer (Nottingham).

Also presenting was Valeria Burdea (former Nottingham PhD now at the University of Pittsburgh). Valeria has links with colleagues at one of our international partners (Carnegie Mellon University) so was invited to present through the NIBS Exchange Programme. The University of Amsterdam is also one of our NIBS international partners, so there was a good deal of opportunity for networking in between the presentations.

The meeting took place 16 to 17 May2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cedex/documents/news/ccc-2019-final-program.pdf
 
Description CCP NIBS workshop with Ofcom BL 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact In April 2018, Amelia Fletcher and Bruce Lyons hosted a CCP workshop with the regulator Ofcom (in collaboration with NIBS) . This is part of a sponsorship scheme CCP has with seven major regulators. It was delivered by the full NIBS 2 team based at the University of East Anglia with added interventions from other CCP members. The aims were to understand consumer engagement with choice decisions, and the format consisted of short presentations by the team, followed by Ofcom sharing the research they have been doing. After lunch there was a roundtable discussion, drawing on the insights of the morning, to think about implications for regulation,

Feedback from Ofcom was positive. They reported finding the session extremely interesting and stimulating, and felt the format worked well in terms of generating discussion and the exchange of ideas. They expressed a desire to follow up on some of the research/papers cited in the various presentations to help develop their understanding in this area and were interested in staying in touch with the work we are taking forward as part of the NIBS programme.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description CMA Citizen's Advice super-complaint into loyalty penalties AF 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact 16 October 2018. Amelia Fletcher attended an academic roundtable discussion with the CMA in London to discuss behavioural economic issues arising from the Citizen's Advice super-complaint into loyalty penalties.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Can mere guidance shift investment decisions? PH 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Can mere guidance shift investment decisions? was presented by Prachi Hejib (PhD student at UEA) at the NIBS Autumn Workshop 2021 (15-16 September)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Can you Remember your Contactless Spend? MvdA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Can you remember your contactless spend? was presented by NIBS PhD student (Warwick) Merle van den Akker, at SPUDM 2019 which took place 19 August in Amsterdam.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/a14b80_71d427eb956846059ee5400737721a81.pdf
 
Description Challenging Nudge Economics BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Challenging Nudge Economics: Reframing the Market as a Community of Advantage - Webinar by Bob Sugden (and Jason Collins) broadcast on YouTube on 3 September 2018. Produced by Promoting Economic Pluralism in conjunction with The Mint Magazine.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thvkCiQW3IM#action=share
 
Description Choice Overload in a Complex Environment RC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Robin Cubitt presented his research (joint with Chris Starmer and Joerg Weber) "Choice Overload in a Complex Environment" at the NIBS September Workshop which took place 17 to 19 September 2018 at the University of Nottingham.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Choice Overload: in theory, in the lab and in the field CVS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Chris Starmer convened a symposia at the Subjective Probability Utility and Decision Making (SPUDM) 2021 Conference. The topic was Choice Overload: in theory, in the lab and in the field. Presenters included Chris Starmer (Nottingham), Stefania Sitzia & Bob Sugden (UEA), and Olivia Natan (Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley) with discussant, Barry Schwartz (Swarthmore College). The event was hosted by Warwick Business School with support from NIBS.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Choice overload and asymmetric dominance: experiment and theory BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Choice overload and asymmetric dominance: experiment and theory was presented by Bob Sugden and Stefania Sitzia (UEA) at the NIBS Autumn Workshop 2021 (15-16 September)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Choice overload and asymmetric dominance: theory and experiment BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Bob Sugden & Stefania Sitzia presented their research, 'Choice overload and asymmetric dominance: theory and experiment' at the symposium about 'Choice overload: in theory, in the lab and in the field' - at the 2021 SPUDM Conference. This was hosted by Warwick Business School (online) on 24 August 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Choice overload: is it a real thing and if so, why does it arise CVS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Chris Starmer (University of Nottingham) presented 'Choice overload: is it a real thing and if so, why does it arise?' at the NIBS event, 'behavioural science and market regulation' on 15 September 2020. The discussant was Moira Nicolson (Ofgem).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Compound games, focal points, and the framing of collective and individual interests JW 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Compound games, focal points, and the framing of collective and individual interests - was presented by Jiwei Zheng (NIBS collaborator, currently at University of Lancaster) at the NIBS Autumn Workshop 2021 (15-16 September)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Consumer Remedies AF 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Amelia Fletcher chaired a conference for the UK Competition Network on 'Consumer Remedies' in London, 1 October 2018. There were around 150 academics, policy makers and practitioners in attendance.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Consumer and Competition Policy in Times of Rising Corporate Power AF 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Fletcher A, participated in a panel on 'Consumer and Competition Policy in Times of Rising Corporate Power' at the 4th Annual Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies Conference, Berlin, 21 June 2019. This was attended by approx 150 academics and practitioners.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Consumer-Facing Remedies AF 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Amelia Fletcher presented on "Consumer-Facing Remedies", at the Competition Committee of the OECD, Paris, 5 June 2018. This was attended by around 50 international policy makers and Government officials. The accompanying OECD background note drew heavily on her work (https://one.oecd.org/document/DAF/COMP/WP3(2018)2/en/pdf).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Coronavirus: a behavioural scientist shares his views on easing lockdown GL 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Coronavirus: a behavioural scientist shares his views on easing lockdown by Graham Loomes, was published in Geographical Magazine (online) on 29 June 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://geographical.co.uk/opinion/item/3741-coronavirus-a-behaviour-scientists-shares-his-views-abo...
 
Description Coronavirus: are psychological biases causing politicians to make bad choices? NC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Coronavirus: are psychological biases causing politicians to make bad choices? - an article by Nick Chater in The Conversation (March 2020). Nick explains that our minds tackle the future by referring to the past and we reason about the world by constructing narratives, but we have a tendency to see only one possible model.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-are-psychological-biases-causing-politicians-to-make-bad-cho...
 
Description Could we live in a world without rules? NC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Could we live in a world without rules? - an article by Nick Chater published in The Conversation (February 2020). Nick tells us as a behavioural scientist he believes it's not really rules, norms and customs in general that are the problem - but the unjustified ones. The tricky and important bit, perhaps, is establishing the difference between the two.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://theconversation.com/could-we-live-in-a-world-without-rules-128664
 
Description Critique of nudging/ libertarian paternalism from The Community of Advantage BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Bob Sugden presented a critique of nudging/ libertarian paternalism from his book The Community of Advantage at:

6 April 2018 - Centre for Competiton Policy/ Ofcom Workshop on Behavioural Economics and Regulation
2 July 2018 - CCP/FCA workshop (session on behavioural consumers and regulation)

This aroused quite a bit of interest among the policymakers and was a step in developing contacts with regulators.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Curious Kids: how did humans think about things, before they had language to think with? NC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Curious Kids: how did humans think about things, before they had language to think with? - an article by Nick Chater in The Conversation, November 2019. In this article Nick proposes that language can express some of the results of our thinking, but it's not the thinking itself.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://theconversation.com/curious-kids-how-did-humans-think-about-things-before-they-had-language-...
 
Description Data Science Festival SS 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact PhD Students Sid Sherborne participated in the Data Science Festival - a month long festival of virtual events (November 2020).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.datasciencefestival.com/
 
Description December, SAFE 2018 Conference JW 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Joerg Weber was an Invited Discussant/Panellist at the SAFE 2018 Conference, Goethe University Frankfurt, December 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Deception and Reciprocity DA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Despoina Alempaki was invited to present her NIBS research, "Deception and Reciprocity" at LISER in Luxembourg, February 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Deception aversion and consumer responses to sustainability initiatives AI 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Andrea Isoni presented, "Deception aversion and consumer responses to sustainability initiatives" on 13 October 2020 at the meeting of the Strategic Information Network (Online)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Delegation Preferences: Computers vs Humans (UEA) LS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact NIBS PhD student, Lara Suraci, presented her research at the CCC meeting which took place from 20-21 May 2021 online. The CCC meeting is a PhD led annual event organised by the Universities of Nottingham, East Anglia and Amsterdam. Presenting research to their peer group from other universities provides valuable feedback for students.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Delegation Preferences: Computers vs Humans LS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Delegation Preferences: Computers vs Humans - was presented by Lara Suraci (NIBS PhD student at Nottingham) at the NIBS Autumn Workshop 2021 (15-16 September)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Descriptive and Injunctive Norms on children's preferences for truth-telling DA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Descriptive and Injunctive Norms on children's preferences for truth-telling was presented by Despoina Alempaki at the ESA Meeting in Dijon (Burgundy School of Business) which took place from 5 - 8 September 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Disclosure as a tool for Enhancing Consumer Engagement AF 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Amelia Fletcher presented, "Disclosure as a tool for Enhancing Consumer Engagement" at our NIBS September 2018 workshop, which took place 17 to 19 September 2018 at the Orchard Hotel Nottingham.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Driverless cars aren't safe enough to share our streets NC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Driverless cars aren't safe enough to share our streets - an article by Nick Chater published in the Financial Times, December 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.ft.com/content/0ec3079c-0b9d-11ea-8fb7-8fcec0c3b0f9
 
Description Early Career Behavioural Economists 2018 Conference JW 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Joerg Weber was an invited Discussant/Panellist at the Early Career Behavioural Economists 2018 Conference, NHH Bergen, June 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Economics Alumni RM 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Richard was invited to speak to Nottingham students about his experience of studying at the University of Nottingham, on both the MSc Dual Degree programme and PhD programme. This was part of an event organised by the School of Economics, who invited several alumni to speak to current students. Date18 February 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Effect of Repetition on Asymmetric Dominance Effects in Decisions and Games AC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Effect of Repetition on Asymmetric Dominance Effects in Decisions and Games was presented by Andrew Colman (NIBS Advisory Group member and long-term collaborator from the University of Leicester) at the NIBS Autumn Workshop 2021 (15-16 September).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Eliciting Preferences about Personal Data in the Internet of Things RmD 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Eliciting Preferences about Personal Data in the Internet of Things was presented by NIBS collaborator, Rebecca McDonald, at the NIBS September Workshop which took place 17 to 19 September 2018 at the University of Nottingham.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Encouraging Instructions Mimic Real Incentives CS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Professor Chris Starmer (Director of NIBS) presented his research, "Encouraging Instructions Mimic Real Incentives" at the NIBS September Workshop which took place 17 to 19 September 2018 at the University of Nottingham.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Encouraging instructions mimic the impacts of real incentives NHZ 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Noemí Herranz-Zarzoso presented Encouraging instructions mimic the impacts of real incentives at FUR - June 2018 in York. Noemi visited CeDEx in Nottingham during 2017, during which time she worked on this paper with Professor Chris Starmer, and NIBS colleagues.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.furconference.org/schedule/#schedule-top
 
Description Engagement in Investment Decisions PH 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Prachi Hejib presented Engagement in Investment Decisions at the EasternARC Experimental Workshop - 31 July to 1 August 2019. She also presented this research at the NIBS Workshop (18 to 20 September 2019) at the University of Warwick.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Evasive Communication (CeDEx) DA DR 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Daniel Read and Despoina Alempaki (Warwick) presented their research "Evasive Communication" at the CeDEx Brown Bag on Thursday 6 December 2018. Brown Bag seminars are primarily designed for 'work in progress' at any stage to be presented to peer groups for discussion. This project received NIBS funding via the small grant scheme and Daniel & Depi were invited to present in order to share details of their experimental approach. Co-author Valeria Burdea (former Nottingham PhD) was also present.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cedex/events/brownbag/brown-bag-archive-2018-19/despoina-alempaki-06-12...
 
Description Evasive Communication (DR@W) DA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Despoina Alempaki presented 'Evasive Communication' (joint work with Daniel Read) at the DR@W Seminar, University of Warwick on 24 October 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Evasive Communication (NIBS) DA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Despoina Alempaki presented "Evasive Communication" (with Valeria Burdea and Daniel Read) at the NIBS Autumn Workshop which took place 18 to 20 September 2019 at the University of Warwick. This research has been NIBS funded and this is just one of a number of presentations sharing the research with our group, and to a wider audience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Evasive Communication (Ningbo) DA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Despoina Alempaki presented "Evasive Communication" at the Workshop on Behavioural and Experimental Economics, at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (November 2019). This was part of an event organised to mark the establishment of a new decision-making lab at the Ningbo Campus, CeDEx. The purpose of the event was to support the development of a network of scholars linked to CeDEx China, so there were plenty of introductions and network-building. There was a series of talks serving as a wider introduction to the research interests of CeDEx China members (including this talk by Despoina) and Professor Chris Starmer (Director of Global CeDEx and NIBS) was given the honour of officially opening the new lab.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Evasive Communication (Winter School) DA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact In March 2019, Despoina Alempaki attended the Winter School at the University of Innsbruck and presented her research on 'Evasive Communication' at both the "Credence goods, Incentives and Behavior" workshop and the "(Un)Ethical behavior in markets" workshop.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Evasive Communication - Portsmouth, Berlin & Vienna DA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Despoina Alempaki presented 'Evasive Communication' at multiple seminars - these included the University of Portsmouth and WZB Berlin in November 2019, and the Vienna Center for Experimental Economics in November 2020. She was an invited speaker on all three occasions. Average audience attendance for each seminar was 50 to 100 people.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019,2020
 
Description Examining reason-based data in complex decision making NP 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Examining reason-based data in complex decision making was presented by Neo Poon at the NIBS Workshop, 18-20 September 2019 at the University of Warwick.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description FCA workshop on consumers and competition BL 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact 2 July 2018 - Bruce Lyons was a participant at the FCA workshop on consumers and competition, which took place at CCP/ UEA.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Fragile Self Esteem - George Loewenstein 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact George Loewenstein (NIBS international partner) from Carnegie Mellon University, visited the University of Nottingham and gave a public lecture on 14 September 2021. The topic was 'fragile self esteem' and it took place on University Park Campus with live streaming for those who were unable to attend in person due to Covid-19.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Future of Competition Policy BL 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Bruce Lyons presented at the Future of Competition Policy at Clifford Chance, Canary Wharf, London, 11th July 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Governments should be up front about the trade-offs made in relaxing lockdown GL 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Warwick Business School's Core Insights editorial team bring expert advice and knowhow to help organisations cope with the impact of the global pandemic. In episode 12, Graham Loomes reveals the trade-offs Governments are making between people's health and their livelihoods and argues they should be made transparent as leaders relax lockdown measures to get their economies moving again.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.wbs.ac.uk/news/core-insights-podcast-series-leading-through-covid-19/
 
Description Guess which foolish strategy people most often use to pay back credit card debt JW 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Guess which foolish strategy people most often use to pay back credit card debt - article written by Dan Kopf, 13 February 2018 published in Quarz. This article was based on research by John Gathergood, Joerg Weber, Neil Stewart and Neale Mahoney. It was one of several articles written at this time in relation to this research about credit card payments.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://qz.com/1205124/the-foolish-strategies-people-often-use-to-pay-back-credit-card-debt/
 
Description HSE Workshop on the Value of Statistical Life/ Life Years GL 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact On 26 April 2019 Graham Loomes participated in a workshop hosted by the Health and Safety Executive to discuss the relationship between the Value of Statistical Life and the Value of Statistical Life Years and the scope for further research in this area. Two members of NIBS Advisory Group also took part in their respective roles as members of the teams which were commissioning the researcher, and being commissioned to undertake the research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Heuristics behaviour identified from mass transaction data NS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 13 November 2018 Neil Stewart was invited to give a seminar at the Max Planck Institute, Berlin. The title of his presentation was, "Heuristics behaviour identified from mass transaction data".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description How a behavioural economist can also be a classical liberal BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Bob Sugden was an invited speaker to a conference in honour of Vernon L Smith, which took place in December 2017 at the University of Nottingham. He presented 'How a behavioural economist can also be a classical liberal'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description How big a state do we want? NC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Nick Chater presented his research at the Behavioural Public Policy (BPP) Symposium hosted by the London School of Economics on 8 April 2022.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description How do Individuals Repay their Debt Animation JG 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact In February 2020, following publication of the NIBS paper, "How do Individuals Repay their Debt? The Balance Matching Heuristic (by John Gathergood, Neale Mahoney, Neil Stewart and Joerg Weber) an animation of the key findings was created and published on YouTube. At the date of writing, this had received over 2,000 views. The aim of the animation is to convey the findings to a general audience using easy to understand language and concepts.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1uPFQecCTA
 
Description How do people repay their debt? The balance matching heuristic (Lancaster) JW 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact How do people repay their debt? The balance matching heuristic was presented by Joerg Weber at Lancaster University Business School, Department of Economics. December 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description How do people repay their debt? The balance matching heuristic (Luxembourg) JW 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact How do people repay their debt? The balance matching heuristic was presented by Joerg Weber at LISER, Luxembourg (December 2018).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description How do people repay their debt? The balance matching heuristic JW 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact How do people repay their debt? The balance matching heuristic was presented by Joerg Weber at Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Society) Annual Conference, Freiburg. September 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description How far should regulators go? Libertarian paternalism vs. opportunity provision BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Bob was invited to speak at the Centre for Competition Policy/ Financial Conduct Authority Workshop, which took place at the University of East Anglia 2 July 2018. He presented, 'How far should regulators go? Libertarian paternalism vs. opportunity provision'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description How far should regulators go? Libertarian paternalism vs. opportunity provision and 'Attention and engagement' BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact 6 April 2018, Bob was invited to present at the Centre for Competition Policy/ Ofcom Workshop on Behavioural Economics and Regulation (University of East Angliah). Title: How far should regulators go? Libertarian paternalism vs. opportunity provision and 'Attention and engagement'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Hume's experimental psychology and the idea of erroneous preferences BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Bob Sugden gave a talk, 'Hume's experimental psychology and the idea of erroneous preferences' at the David Hume, economic rationality, and policy conference, 10-12 October 2019 at New York University. It was attended by mostly academics.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Imprecise Preferences and Beliefs in Simple Games AI 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 7 Feb 2018 - Andrea Isoni presented, "Imprecise Preferences and Beliefs in Simple Games" at a seminar at the University of York. This paper is co-authored by G Loomes, D Navarro-Martinez and David Butler.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Improving medication adherence: investigating nudges and their mechanisms SB 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Improving medication adherence: investigating nudges and their mechanisms was presented by NIBS PhD (Sarah Bowen) at the NIBS Workshop, 18 to 20 September 2019 at the University of Warwick. This research has been funded by NIBS through our small grant scheme and Sarah has successfully applied for an Impact Accelerator Grant (University of Nottingham) to continue the project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Inattention, price sensitivity and refinancing decisions JW 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Inattention, price sensitivity and refinancing decisions was presented by Joerg Weber at Research in Behavioural Finance (Vrije University Amsterdam) in September 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Income inequality: Effects on preferences and behaviour GB 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact March 2018 - Gordon Brown was an invited speaker to the NYU Seminar Series (NYU). He presented, "Income inequality: Effects on preferences and behaviour"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Income, inequality, and happiness: The Social Rank Hypothesis GB 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact July 2018 - Gordon Brown presented "Income, inequality, and happiness: The Social Rank Hypothesis" at the Well-being Summer School, Warwick (Invited speaker)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Inequality and Competition Policy Netherlands BL 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Bruce Lyons was a panellist in the workshop on Inequality and Competition Policy which took place at The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM), and was attended by Martijn Snoep, the Chairman of ACM. 26 April 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Inequality and competition policy BL 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Bruce Lyons was a member of the plenary roundtable on 'Inequality and competition policy' at Lear Competition Festival which took place 9 June 2021 (online) hosted from Rome.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Infographic: Why 'balance matching' in debt management can be costly JW 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Infographic: Why 'balance matching' in debt management can be costly published in the Chicago Booth Review, December 2017. This article was based on research by John Gathergood, Neale Mahoney, Neil Stewart and Joerg Weber, relating to how people pay off their credit card debts. It was one of several articles published between December 2017 and February 2018 in different media.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://review.chicagobooth.edu/economics/2017/article/infographic-why-balance-matching-debt-manageme...
 
Description Information disclosure and unravelling DR 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Information disclosure and unravelling was presented by Daniel Read at the NIBS Workshop, 18 to 20 September 2019 at the University of Warwick.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Innovation Workshop NS 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 22 November 2018 Neil Stewart took part in a Cabinet Office Workshop and spoke on the topic of Innovation, at the Shard, London.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Introductions at NIBS Workshop by PhD students 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Some of our NIBS PhD students introduced themselves and presented their research topics and interests as a way of introducing themselves to the group at the NIBS September Workshop, which took place 17 to 19 September 2018 in Nottingham. Our students who presented were Malte Baader (Nottingham), Sarah Bowen (Nottingham), Neo Poon (Warwick) and Richard Mills (Nottingham).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Introductions by Post Docs at NIBS 2018 OK MW AL 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact We invited our new NIBS Post Docs (Orestis Kopsacheilis, Mengjie Wang and Ashley Luckman) to briefly introduce themselves and their research interests at our first NIBS 2 workshop, which took place 17 to 19 September 2018 at the Orchard Hotel, University of Nottingham. This aim of this was not only to introduce them to the group but to foster collaborations with partners which we hope will lead to cross-institutional working and outputs, such as co-authored research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Investigating Associative Thinking: A Network Exploration Task (CCC 2020) MB 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 13-15 May 2020 - Malte Baader presented, "Investigating Associative Thinking: A Network Exploration Task" at the Annual PGR-led CCC meeting, which was hosted online by the University of Nottingham.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Investigating Associative Thinking: A Network Exploration Task MB 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Investigating Associative Thinking: A Network Exploration Task was presented by Malte Baader at the NIBS workshop, 18 to 20 September 2019 at the University of Warwick. This research is in collaboration with Urs Fischbacher (Konstanz) and Chris Starmer & Fabio Tufano (Nottingham).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Investigating Associative Thinking: A Network Exploration Task MB (Amsterdam) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Investigating associative thinking: a network exploration task was presented by Malte Baader at the CCC Meeting (16-17 May 2019) which took place at the University of Amsterdam. This annual event is a collaboration between CBESS (University of East Anglia), CREED (University of Amsterdam) and CeDEx (University of Nottingham). It is designed and led by students, and is a forum where they present their own research to their peer group.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cedex/documents/news/ccc-2019-final-program.pdf
 
Description Investigating Associative Thinking: A Network Exploration Task MB (Dijon) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Investigating Associative Thinking: A Network Exploration Task was presented by Malte Baader at the ESA European Meeting in Dijon (4 to 9 September 2019). The Economic Science Association (ESA) is a professional organisation devoted to economics as an observational science, using controlled experiments to learn about economic behaviour. The ESA welcomes participation by economists interested in the results of such experiments, as well as scholars in psychology, business, political science, and other related fields. (As described on the ESA website).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.economicscience.org/page/conference/2019-european-esa-meeting-dijon-france
 
Description Investigating Associative Thinking: A Network Exploration Task MB (Toulouse) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Investigating Associative Thinking: A Network Exploration Task was presented by Malte Baader at the 10th International Conference of the French Association of Experimental Economics (ASFEE), in Toulouse from 19 to 21 June 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://asfee2019.sciencesconf.org/program/details
 
Description Investigating Associative Thinking: A Network Exploration Task MB (Trento) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Investigating Associative Thinking: A Network Exploration Task was presented by Malte Baader at JDMx, Trento which took place 26 to 29 June 2019. The JDMx meeting is an annual event organised and run by PhD students for other early-career researchers in the judgement and decision making community (psychology, economics, cognitive sciences, neuroscience, and other associated areas).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://jdmx19.neocities.org/#about
 
Description Investigating Choice Overload (HEC Paris) CS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Chris Starmer presented, Investigating Choice Overload at Decision: Theory, Experiments, and Applications (D-TEA) 2020 - Prospect Theory. This conference was hosted by HEC Paris but took place online due to travel restrictions caused by Covid-19.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://sites.google.com/site/dteaworkshop/home
 
Description Investigating Choice Overload (Loughborough) CS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 30 October 2019. Chris Starmer presented, 'Investigating Choice Overload' which is NIBS research (joint with Robin Cubitt and Joerg Weber) at the University of Loughborough
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Investigating Choice Overload (Ningbo) CS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Chris Starmer presented a research paper at the School of Economics, 2nd UNNC Workshop on Advances in Economic Research. Paper title: "investigating choice overload" The workshop took place on 26 April 2019 at the University of Nottingham Ningbo Campus, China. This is part of a wider intiative to share behavioural and experimental economics and the development of resources (including a lab) on the China campus. These facilities will align with CeDEx (the NIBS partner at Nottingham).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Investigating Choice Overload CVS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Professor Chris Starmer presented his work, "Investigating Choice Overload" on the 9 November 2018 at the Organisation and Markets Workshop in Dijon.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://lessac.bsb-education.com/index.php?page=organizations-and-markets-workshop-2018
 
Description Investigating Determinants of Consumer Engagement BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Bob Sugden presented, "Investigating Determinants of Consumer Engagement" at the NIBS 2018 September Workshop which took place from 17 to 19 September 2018, at the Orchard Hotel, Nottingham.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Investigating Preference Reversals and Response Times Using Different Equivalence Methods GL 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Investigating Preference Reversals and Response Times Using Different Equivalence Methods - presentation by Professor Graham Loomes (Warwick Business School) at the NIBS September 2020 Workshop - Day One - 14 September.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Investigating the role of Values & Beliefs in Strategic Thinking (JDMx) DA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 27-29 June 2019. Despoina Alempaki presented, "Investigating the role of values and beliefs in strategic thinking" at the 12th JDMx Conference, which took place at the University of Trento, Italy. This is joint work with Andrew Colman (NIBS Advisory Group); Felix Koelle (former NIBS Research Fellow); Graham Looms (NIBS Co-Investigator); and Briony Pulford (NIBS Collaborator).

The JDMx meeting is an annual event organised and run by PhD students for other early-career researchers in the judgment and decision making community (psychology, economics, cognitive sciences, neuroscience, and other associated areas).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Investigating the role of Values & Beliefs in Strategic Thinking (NIBS) DA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Despoina Alempaki presented her research, "Investigating the role of Values & Beliefs in Strategic Thinking" at the NIBS September Workshop which took place 17 to 19 September 2018 at the University of Nottingham. Despoina was a NIBS funded PhD during NIBS 1 and continues her close collaboration with NIBS as she has taken up a role at the University of Warwick. The research she presented was funded by NIBS and in collaboration with Co-Investigator, Graham Loomes.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description It's Not OK for Finance to Be Dangerous Again JW 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact It's Not OK for Finance to Be Dangerous Again (Consumers make mistakes out of ignorance. They need help, not a regulatory rollback) was an opinion piece published online in Bloomberg Opinion, 9 January 2018. It references research by John Gathergood, Joerg Weber, Neale Mahoney and Neil Stewart. Currently published as a NBER working paper the research is forthcoming in American Economic Review (as of January 2019 a preview version was available for AEA members only). This was one of a number of media articles related to this research, which showed how people may not be paying off multiple credit cards in the most financially efficient way.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-01-09/it-s-not-ok-for-finance-to-be-dangerous-again
 
Description Leading Integrity DA 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Despoina Alempaki was a participant in the "Leading Integrity" workshop which was organised by Warwick Business School (WBS) on 4 July at the Shard in London. The event was a series of information workshops to coordinate future research and action around the challenges related to improving organisational integrity.

Each workshop focused on a different topic, facilitated by Edward Gardiner, Umar Taj and Avri Bilovich from the Behavioural Science group at WBS. The aim for each workshop was to frame the associated challenges and develop a plan for how we might collaborate on future research and action. The workshop topics were:

09.30 - 11.00: Culture: What are the components of an organisational culture that positively supports ethical behaviour?

11.30 - 13.00: Justifying inappropriate acts: What motivates unethical behaviour and what justifications do people use?

14.00 - 15.30: Technology: How is technology hindering or helping support ethical behaviour in organisations?

16.00 - 17.30: Transparency: How can we balance the need for publicity and privacy in highlighting and addressing unethical behaviours?

About the project
Honesty, trust, transparency, and mutual respect are hallmarks of excellent organisations; and strengthening such organisational integrity is typically a key aim of leaders and other employees, as well as, increasingly, being demanded by the media and the public. Yet a succession of high-profile scandals, ranging from safety failures, corruption, and false accounting to sexual harassment, bullying, discrimination, continue to plague business, charities and the public sector. It is easy to blame individual "bad apples" for problems with organisational integrity. But, more often than not, the incentives, culture and structure in an organisation may be the real culprits. This project aims to challenge, debate, and distil insights from considering how we should understand why businesses exists and how they, and their employees, can flourish.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Machine Learning and AI as Business Tools: Threat or blessing for competition? PH 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Prachi Hejib presented, "Machine Learning and AI as Business Tools: Threat or blessing for competition?" at the CCP 15th Annual Conference which took place 6 to 7 June 2019 at the University of East Anglia.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Macroeconomic Implications of the Sampling Brain NC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Macroeconomic Implications of the Sampling Brain was presented by Nick Chater at the Rebuilding Macroeconomics meeting, University of Warwick, 18 March 2019. It was also presented to the Bank of England on 3 December 2019.

The talk explores combining a sampling model of belief revision motivated by psychology can be combined with a standard behavioural finance model for converting beliefs into asset prices. The time-series of the 'stock market' prices generated has some of the statistical and scaling properties found in real financial markets.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.rebuildingmacroeconomics.ac.uk/macroeconomic-implications
 
Description Market Investigations BL 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 10 April 2018. Bruce Lyons attended the GES/CCP course on Competition Economics, which included him giving a presentation on Market Investigations (with central role of effect of behavioural consumers on markets). Venue: London.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Markets, merit and the dignity of labour BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Bob Sugden presented 'Markets, merit and the dignity of labour' at the HEIRS (Happiness Economics and Interpersonal Relations) conference - 'The illusion of merit'.
Cardiff University (online) on 15 April 2021,
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Mobile Money: the effect of mobile payments on personal finance management MvdA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Merle van den Akker (NIBS PhD student at Warwick Business School) presented her research in poster format, at the SPUDM 2021 event which took place 22 to 24 August 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Mobile Payments: Salience vs Simplicity MvdA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Mobile Payments: Salience vs. Simplicity was presented by Merle van den Akker (NIBS PhD student at Warwick Business School) at the NIBS Autumn Workshop 2021 (15-16 September)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Money on the Mind Blog Site MvdA 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Merle van den Akken is a NIBS PhD at the University of Warwick. She uses her 'Money on the Mind' blog to share information and promote discussion about behavioural science. As part of her blog she has interviewed several academics from NIBS. Merle explains, "I take findings and insights from academia and explain them in simple(r) terms, so not just behavioural economists understand what is going on. I explore and explain the assumptions underlying the sciences of neoclassical economics, behavioural economics and psychology; and explain what a lot of heavy duty terms mean and how they are relevant. On a more practical note, I would like to show how you can fit scientific findings in your day to day life and be better for it".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018,2019
URL https://www.moneyonthemind.org/
 
Description Most people are paying off their credit card debt all wrong - are you? JW 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Most people are paying off their credit card debt all wrong - are you? was published by the Washington Post in January 2018. The article references research by John Gathergood, Neale Mahoney, Joerg Weber and Neil Stewart. The research has been published as a NBER working paper and is currently (January 2019) forthcoming with AER.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/01/02/most-people-are-paying-off-their-credit-card-...
 
Description Most people repaying credit cards wrong JW 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Most people repaying credit cards wrong - What's the best way to pay down credit card debt? Article online at NBC ch2 (Southwest Florida) on Wednesday, March 7th 2018. This is based on research by John Gathergood, Neale Mahoney, Neil Stewart and Joerg Weber.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.nbc-2.com/story/37666218/most-people-repaying-credit-cards-wrong
 
Description NIBS Monthly Briefing 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact From January 2019 we introduced a monthly briefing for our NIBS members and very close collaborators. All members of the group are invited to supply content and the briefing is not shared widely, which means it can be used not only to disseminate information, but also to solicit advice & guidance or find collaborators for activities. It's a useful way for our members to keep in touch in between annual workshops and retain an overview of activities throughout the Network.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description NIBS Newsletter February 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The February 2018 edition of our newsletter which is sent to our stakeholder list, international partners, colleagues and promoted on the website and via Twitter.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://www.behavioural-science.ac.uk/documents/february-2018-newsletter-final.pdf
 
Description NIBS Newsletter February 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact We issue a regular newsletter to our stakeholders, and members of our Network. This is also shared via Twitter and our Website. The aim of the newsletter is to feedback on our work, provide information about opportunities to engage with NIBS and disseminate our research/ knowledge.

In this addition we provided information on how to view NIBS outputs online; details of our exchange programme aimed at our young researchers; and featured several recent publications by members of our Network (which acknowledge the support of the grant).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.behavioural-science.ac.uk/documents/february-2019-newsletter-final.pdf
 
Description NIBS Newsletter July 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Our regular newsletter shares information with our Network and Stakeholder groups as well as being available more generally to the public/ policymakers. In this edition we provided information about viewing our NIBS outputs on 'Gateway to Research'; showcased publications from our NIBS 1 grant; and provided highlights of the research from NIBS 2 - focussing on key publications in 2019 which acknowledge the support of the grant.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.behavioural-science.ac.uk/documents/july-2019-newsletter-final.pdf
 
Description NIBS Newsletter June 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Our June 2018 edition of the newsletter which features news about our events, staff, research and recent publications. This is shared online and by direct mail to our partners, colleagues and stakeholders.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://www.behavioural-science.ac.uk/documents/june-2018-newsletter-final.pdf
 
Description NIBS Newsletter October 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Our regular NIBS newsletter which showcases publications, events and news relevant to the grant
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://www.behavioural-science.ac.uk/documents/october-2017-newsletter-final.pdf
 
Description NIBS Newsletter October 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact In our October 2018 newsletter we share news of our new PhD students, recent events, and feature publications. Our newsletter is shared directly with our colleagues, partners and stakeholders, and via the website and Twitter.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://www.behavioural-science.ac.uk/documents/october-2018-newsletter-final.pdf
 
Description NIBS Newsletter October 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Supporters
Results and Impact Articles featured in our newsletter for October 2019 are:

• Update on recent NIBS events
• Welcome to our new PhDs who joined us this month
• Congratulations to the NIBS Team at Warwick Business School
• Update on potential impact of our 'voter registration' paper
• Spotlight on two recent publications (in Management Science and Nature Human Behaviour)

Our newsletter is mailed directly to our stakeholders, collaborators, Advisory Group, international partners and colleagues. It is posted on our website and shared via Twitter.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.behavioural-science.ac.uk/documents/october-2019-newsletter-final.pdf
 
Description NIBS September Workshop 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Our September 2018 NIBS workshop is for NIBS-funded colleagues and close collaborators. The aim of the workshop is to foster networking and opportunities for cross-institutional collaboration and working. The event was attended by academics and policy makers (in their capacity as members of our Advisory Group). On the programme was feedback on NIBS funded research, as well as introductions by our new NIBS PhD students and Post Docs. We also devoted one session to a discussion on policy issues (chaired by Bob Sugden) with the aim of identifying topics which are of interest to regulators. Our intention is to organise some small, focused workshops with regulators to address the issues we identified. The workshop took place from 17 to 19 September, at the University of Nottingham.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description NIBS September Workshop 2020 - external speakers 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact As part of our annual NIBS 2020 workshop, we devoted an afternoon to 'Behavioural Science and Market Regulation' on 15 September 2020. This event was hosted by NIBS colleagues at UEA, and took place online due to Covid-19 restrictions. It consisted of presentations on key NIBS topics by senior academics within the NIBS network. Each presentation was followed by comments from a policymaker discussant. The event ended with a discussion panel at which policymakers summarised how academic research can shape policy. The Workshop was well-attended by a mix of academics and policymakers. A copy of the programme is available online.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.behavioural-science.ac.uk/documents/behavioural-science-and-market-regulation-nibs-progr...
 
Description NIBS September Workshop 2020 - internal speakers 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Our annual NIBS Workshop aimed at network members, took place online using MS Teams due to Covid-19 restrictions. It took place over two afternoons - 14 & 16 September 2020 with presentations by our members. This workshop is for NIBS colleagues to feedback research funded by NIBS, and to solicit interest in further NIBS relevant projects.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description NIBS September Workshop 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact This year our annual workshop was hosted by the University of Nottingham but took place online due to Covid-19 restrictions. There were various presentations across two half-days (15 and 16 September 2021) but Network members and collaborators. As always, the aim of this workshop was to share research funded by NIBS and to enable Co-Investigators to seek collaborators for new research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Narrow Bracketing your way to reinvestment success by Gretchen Chapman DR 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Daniel Read was a discussant on 29 March 2019 at the Conference in Behavioral Finance and Decision Making (Chicago Booth University), during the talk, Narrow Bracketing your way to reinvestment success by Gretchen Chapman (Carnegie Mellon University).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://research.chicagobooth.edu/famamiller/conference-in-behavioral-finance-and-decision-making/sc...
 
Description Naïve Diversification & Narrow Framing Among Investors NS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Neil Stewart presented his research, "Naïve Diversification & Narrow Framing Among Investors" at the NIBS September workshop, which took place 17 to 19 September 2018 at the University of Nottingham.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description New Insights Into Competition Regulation and Consumer Protection AF 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Amelia Fletcher presented on 'New Insights Into Competition Regulation and Consumer Protection' (drawn on her work on consumer remedies), at the CCRP Competition Policy Roundtable, City University, London on 26 October 2018. Around 80 academics, policy makers and practitioners were in attendance.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description New Year's Resolution Test media coverage 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact 'Taking the New Year's Resolution Test seriously: eliciting individuals' judgements about self-control and spontaneity' by Kevin Grubiak, Andrea Isoni, Robert Sugden, Mengjie Wang and Jiwei Zheng (published in Behavioural Public Policy) was picked up for media coverage in The Daily Telegraph (31 January 2022) and i newspaper (5-6 February 2022).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Noise & Variability in Repeated Games GL 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Professor Graham Loomes (WBS) presented his research, "Noise & Variability in Repeated Games" at the NIBS September Workshop, which took place 17 to 19 September 2018 at the University of Nottingham.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Nudging Self-Reports of Medication Adherence: newline An Online Experiment SB 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 30 October 2018, NIBS PhD, Sarah Bowen (Nottingham) presented her project "Nudging Self-Reports of Medication Adherence: \newline An Online Experiment" at the University of Warwick, BRIDGES seminar series. The pilot phase of this project has been funded by NIBS and Sarah sought feedback from the group to inform the next steps of the project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Nudging self-reports of adherence SB 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Nudging self-reports of adherence - was presented by Sarah Bowen (NIBS PhD student at Nottingham) at the NIBS Autumn Workshop 2021 (15-16 September)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Patterns of competitive interaction - John Vickers 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact John Vickers (University of Oxford) was a speaker at our NIBS 2020 'behavioural science and market regulation' event on 15 September 2020. He presented 'Patterns of competitive interaction' with Alena Kozakova (Ofwat) as discussant.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Paying Down Credit Card Debt in Suboptimal Ways JW 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Paying Down Credit Card Debt in Suboptimal Ways was published by the NBER Digest, and references research by Joerg Weber, John Gathergood, Neil Stewart and Neale Mahoney. This research has been published as a NBER Working Paper and is forthcoming in AER.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.nber.org/digest/feb18/feb18.pdf
 
Description People Prefer Coordinated Punishment to Make Others Cooperate CVS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Press release by the University of Nottingham to highlight the publication of our paper published in Nature Human Behaviour, September 2019. The paper acknowledges the support of both grants (NIBS 1 & 2) and was produced in collaboration with one of our international partners (Max Planck Institute of Human Development in Berlin).

Abstract of the paper: Human groups can often maintain high levels of cooperation despite the threat of exploitation by individuals who reap the benefits of cooperation without contributing to its costs. Prominent theoretical models suggest that cooperation is particularly likely to thrive if people join forces to curb free riding and punish their non-contributing peers in a coordinated fashion. However, it is unclear whether and, if so, how people actually condition their punishment of peers on punishment behaviour by others. Here we provide direct evidence that many people prefer coordinated punishment. With two large-scale decision-making experiments (total n = 4,320), we create minimal and controlled conditions to examine preferences for conditional punishment and cleanly identify how the punishment decisions of individuals are impacted by the punishment behaviour by others. We find that the most frequent preference is to punish a peer only if another (third) individual does so as well. Coordinated punishment is particularly common among participants who shy away from initiating punishment. With an additional experiment we further show that preferences for conditional punishment are unrelated to well-studied preferences for conditional cooperation. Our results highlight the importance of conditional preferences in both positive and negative reciprocity, and they provide strong empirical support for theories that explain cooperation based on coordinated punishment.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/people-prefer-coordinated-punishment-to-make-others-cooperate
 
Description People won't get 'tired' of social distancing - the government is wrong to suggest otherwise NC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact People won't get 'tired' of social distancing - the government is wrong to suggest otherwise - an article by Nick Chater published in The Guardian, April 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/16/social-distancing-coronavirus-stay-home-govern...
 
Description Personalities are like traditions - unique patterns of behaviour that build over a lifetime of improvisation NC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Personalities are like traditions - unique patterns of behaviour that build over a lifetime of improvisation was published in The Conversation on 24 April 2019. In this article Nick Chater suggests "it is details, not generalities, that make each of us special" and that "changing aspects of our personalities (if we want to) will, most likely, be slow and difficult".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://theconversation.com/personalities-are-like-traditions-unique-patterns-of-behaviour-that-buil...
 
Description Persuasion With Motivated Beliefs DH 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact During his visit to the University of Nottingham, David Hagmann from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) presented his work at a CeDEx Brown Bag seminar. This seminar series is designed for PhD students to gain peer feedback and review of work in progress. His talk was entitled "Persuasion With Motivated Beliefs" and took place on 23 November 2017. David visited Nottingham as part of the NIBS Exchange Programme and this is part of on-going collaboration between NIBS and CMU (one of our international partners).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Pioneer of 'nudge' science and explorer of irrational decisions earns economics Nobel CVS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Pioneer of 'nudge' science and explorer of irrational decisions earns economics Nobel - article by Adrian Cho published in Science (online 9 October 2017). In his article Adrian talks about why people hold savings paying low interest rates rather than paying off credit card debts with higher interest rates, to highlight the work of Richard Thaler (recipient of the Nobel Prize). Quoted in the article are NIBS Principle Investigator, Chris Starmer (Nottingham) and NIBS Co-Investigator, Amelia Fletcher (UEA) who reflect on the importance of Richard's work on 'nudge' and its influence on policymakers.

Although we are not directly aware of any impact from this specific article, the Award; and subsequent articles about 'nudge' and Richard's work, have no doubt raised the profile of behavioural economics.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/pioneer-nudge-science-and-explorer-irrational-decisions-earns...
 
Description Polarisation of Public Opinions during Intergroup Contact NP 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Polarisation of Public Opinions during Intergroup Contact - presented by Neo Poon (NIBS PhD student at Warwick Business School) at the NIBS September 2020 Workshop on 16 September.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Policy Discussion NIBS 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Professor Bob Sugden chaired a policy discussion session at our NIBS 2018 September workshop which took place 17 to 19 September 2018 at the University of Nottingham. The aim of the session was to ask the regulators and academics present, which topics would be most suited as the focus of some forthcoming NIBS policy-focused events. Contributors to the discussion included Adam Land (CMA), Karen Croxson (FCA) and Stavros Georgiou (HSE) in addition to NIBS Co-Investigators - Neil Stewart, Chris Starmer and John Gathergood; NIBS collaborator Rebecca McDonald (Birmingham) and NIBS PhD student, Merle van den Akker (Warwick).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Poor financial literacy is costing consumers dearly JW 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Poor financial literacy is costing consumers dearly was published in the Business Section of The National, January 2018. The article was based on research by John Gathergood, Neale Mahoney, Neil Stewart and Joerg Weber.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.thenational.ae/business/money/poor-financial-literacy-is-costing-consumers-dearly-1.6953...
 
Description Preference Reversals under Strategic Uncertainty (Birmingham) DA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 29-30 May 2019 - Despoina Alempaki presented, "Preference Reversals under Strategic Uncertainty" (joint work with Graham Loomes) at the Birmingham Experimental Economics Workshop, University of Birmingham
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Preference Reversals under Strategic Uncertainty (CCC) DA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Despoina Alempaki (PhD student under NIBS 1 at Nottingham) presented this research, "Preference Reversals under Strategic Uncertainty" at the CCC meeting which took place in May 2018 at the University of East Anglia. Research is joint with Professor Graham Loomes, University of Warwick (Co-Investigator with NIBS). Despoina has continued her affiliation with NIBS after graduation, via her post doc positions at the University of Warwick. CCC is an annual meeting organised by PhDs at CREED (Amsterdam), CBESS (UEA) and CeDEx (Nottingham).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Preference Reversals under Strategic Uncertainty (ESA) DA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Despoina Alempaki (former NIBS1 PhD student at Nottingham, now Post Doc at the University of Warwick) presented "Preference Reversals under Strategic Uncertainty" joint work with Graham Loomes at the ESA Asia-Pacific meeting, NYU Abu Dhabi, Jan. 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Preference Reversals under Strategic Uncertainty (Loughborough) DA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 17 May 2019 - Despoina Alempaki presented "Preference Reversals under Strategic Uncertainty" (joint work with Graham Loomes) at the 1st Loughborough Behavioural Decision Science Workshop. This was one of a series of presentations Depi gave regarding this research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Preference Reversals under Strategic Uncertainty (NIBS) DA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Preference Reversals under Strategic Uncertainty was presented by NIBS collaborator (and former NIBS funded PhD) Despoina Alempaki at the NIBS September Workshop, which took place 17 to 19 September 2018, at the University of Nottingham.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Preference reversals across domains DA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Preference reversals across domains (with Geoffrey Castillo) was presented by Despoina Alempaki at our NIBS September 2019 workshop (University of Warwick 18 to 20 September).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Process Models of Choice Workshop (Warwick) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Ashley Luckman (NIBS Post Doc) organised and hosted a mini workshop on Process Models of Choice in March 2019. This involved a small group of NIBS members and close collaborators, and took place at the University of Warwick. In addition to the workshop, the group discussed ideas for a further event focusing on this topic, and whether a large, medium or small scale approach would work best. Interest was solicited from all NIBS members who were also asked to suggest further topics that might work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Psychological Parameters Have Units: Fixing prospect theory, Rachlin's delay discounting model, and Stevens' Law NS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Neil Stewart presented, "Psychological Parameters Have Units: Fixing prospect theory, Rachlin's delay discounting model, and Stevens' Law" at SPUDM 2019, University of Amsterdam, 18 - 22 August 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Psychology of Money (online) MvdA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact On 21 October 2020, Merle van den Akker presented, "Psychology of Money" at the Masterclass for the IE Behavioural Economics Club (delivered online).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Psychology of Money MvdA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Merle van den Akker (NIBS PhD student at Warwick Business School) presented "The Psychology of Money" at the Coventry University Psychology Society (CUPS) Part 1 of their collaboration with the investment society. This took place on 3 February 2020 at the University of Coventry.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.cusu.org/society/psychology/
 
Description Questioning Behavioura Podcast Series 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Questioning Behaviour Podcast has been developed by two NIBS PhD students - Sarah Bowen (Nottingham) and Merle van den Akker (Warwick). They interview specialists in the field of behavioural science, and also host an 'office hours' series which is aimed at helping PhD students navigate their doctorate. Broadcast across three platforms - as of 10 July the series had over 1000 downloads on Podbean, and over 300 subscribers in YouTube.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://questioningbehaviour.podbean.com/
 
Description RCTs to scale: comprehensive evidence from two nudge units - Stefano DellaVigna 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Stefano DellaVigna (UC Berkeley) presented 'RCTs to scale: comprehensive evidence from two nudge units' at the NIBS event, 'behavioural science and market regulation' on 15 September 2020. The discussant was Karen Croxson (Financial Conduct Authority).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Ranking Rankings AF 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Fletcher A, presented "Ranking rankings: Or how to protect consumers from being misled when searching online" at the CCP Annual Conference in London, 6 June 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Reflections on Humanomics BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 29 April 2020 - Bob Sugden presented 'Reflections on Humanomics' at the experimental and behavioural economics conference (online) organised by University of Lancaster.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Regulating for Competition - Financial Conduct Authority - AF 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact 7 February 2018. Amelia Fletcher was a participant in a roundtable discussion on "Regulating for Competition", arranged by the Financial Conduct Authority, London,
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Risk Compensation During Covid-19 DR 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Warwick Business School issued a press release relating to the research, "Risk compensation during COVID-19: The impact of face mask usage on social distancing" by Ashley Luckman, Hossam Zeitoun, Andrea Isoni, Graham Loomes, Ivo Vlaev, Nattavudh Powdthavee, and Daniel Read.
This was reported in a couple of media outlets, and Daniel Read and Ivo Vlaev were interviewed by Sky News, Bloomberg, the Guardian and Russian Today. The paper was also shared with the Cabinet Office, NHS England, Public Health England, and the Department of Health and Social Care.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Risk Compensation from Mask Usage Reduces Preferences for Distancing during Covid-19 AL 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Risk Compensation from Mask Usage Reduces Preferences for Distancing during Covid-19 was presented by Ashley Luckman at the NIBS Workshop, 14 to 16 September 2020 (held online).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Risk Compensation from Mask Usage Reduces Preferences for Distancing during Covid-19 AL 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Risk Compensation from Mask Usage Reduces Preferences for Distancing during Covid-19 was presented by Ash Luckman at the NIBS September 2020 Workshop (internal speakers) on 16 September 2020. This research was very topical as it was presented during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Risk Warning Information can lead to Worse Consumer Decisions TM 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Risk Warning Information can lead to Worse Consumer Decisions - presentation by Tim Mullett at the NIBS September 2020 Workshop, 14 September.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description SJDM Conference 2018 OK 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Orestis Kopsacheilis (NIBS Post Doc) attended the SJDM conference which took place in New Orleans, USA from 16-19 November 2018. He had the chance to meet and discuss his work with a lot of people whose work is relevant, in particular Thorsten Pachur Sudeep Bhatia (former NIBS Post Doc) and Ian Krajbich.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://www.sjdm.org/programs/2018-program.pdf
 
Description SPUDM 2021 - sponsorship 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact NIBS supported/sponsored the Subjective Probability Utility and Decision Making (SPUDM) 2021 event which was hosted by NIBS partners at the University of Warwick in August 2021. The NIBS logo was included on the programme and within the online delivery platform used to host the event. As part of the event, a symposium was led by NIBS Director, Professor Chris Starmer (this has been logged separately).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description SPUDM Symposium - Choice Overload, in theory, in the lab and in the field CVS 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Professor Chris Starmer (Nottingham) led a symposium on Choice Overload at the SPUDM event, on 24 August 2021. Presentations by Chris Starmer, Bob Sugden, Stefania Sitzia, Olivia Natan (with discussant Barry Schwarz). This also involved research by NIBS colleagues, Robin Cubitt, Joerg Weber and Gerardo Infante.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Social norms and polarisation: A cognitive model GB 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact NIBS Co-Investigator, Gordon Brown (Warwick) gave a talk for the University of Nottingham's CeDEx seminar programme on 11 October 2017. Title: Social norms and polarisation: A cognitive model. Abstract: A process model of social norms and social influence is described. Individuals' private attitudes, and social norms, are assumed to be represented as distributions rather than single points. Individuals located within a social network observe the behavior of their network neighbors and hence infer the social distribution of particular attitudes and behaviors. Agents dislike behaving in ways that are extreme within their neighborhood social norm ("social extremeness aversion"), and hence have a tendency to conform. However agents also prefer to behave consistently with their own underlying attitudes ("authenticity preference"). Expressed attitudes and behavior reflect a utility-maximizing compromise between these opposing principles. The model, which is dubbed Social Sampling Theory, derives from cognitive models of judgment and is explored using agent-based modeling to link individual-level and network-level effects. The model is applied to social norm influence and a number of other social phenomena including (a) homophily and the development of segregated neighborhoods, (b) polarization, and (c) social contagion effects.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Summer School on Cognitive Modelling GB 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Gordon Brown was an invited Lecturer at Summer School on Cognitive Modelling, Couches (France), July 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://sites.uci.edu/cmmc/files/2018/02/SS2018-Poster-for-webpage-1.pdf
 
Description Sydney Masterclass GL 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact In conjunction with the University of Sydney Workshop on Behavioural Economics: Foundations and Applied Research, Professor Graham Loomes of The University of Warwick undertake two half-day masterclasses.

Different Ways of Incorporating Psychological Features into Decision Theory
Tuesday 7 November, 2 to 5 pm 2017

There are now more than a hundred different models of decision making under risk. But how different are/can they all be? How can we better understand the overlaps and distinctions between them and what these represent in terms of the psychological features that may be involved? In this talk, I'll use a reasonably simple act-state framework to highlight inter-relationships between expected utility theory (EUT) and some of the more prominent alternative models. This talk will be restricted to deterministic models: variability is discussed in the second talk.

Incorporating Variability and Error into Decision Theories
Wednesday 8 November, 2 to 5 pm 2017

Ever since the earliest days of experimental studies of individual decision making under risk, it has been known that if a participant is presented with exactly the same scenario (choice or valuation) in exactly the same format on two or more occasions (sometimes separated by a few days but often only separated by a few minutes) he/she is liable to respond differently to at least some of those scenarios. In short, much decision making is probabilistic rather than deterministic. But what are the sources of such variability? How should we incorporate noise/error/imprecision into models? And what might be the implications for testing and discriminating between competing 'core' theories?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://sydney.edu.au/arts/conference/BEW/bew.shtml
 
Description Tainted Nudge (NIBS) AI 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Andrea Isoni presented his research, "Tainted Nudge" at the September NIBS workshop, which took place 17 to 19 September 2018 An update to this research was presented at the September NIBS workshop the following year - which took place 18 to 20 September 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018,2019
 
Description Tainted Nudge (SES) DA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Despoina Alempaki presented "Tainted Nudge" at the School Students and Teachers of Economics 13th Annual Conference, which took place at the Scottish Economic Society on 30 October 2019. This research has been funded by a NIBS small grant and is on-going. It was first presented by Andrea Isoni at the NIBS 2018 Workshop (September 2018, Nottingham). The research is joint with Daniel Read.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Take it or leave it: Experimental evidence on the effect of time-limited offers on consumer behaviour BS MW 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact This research paper looks at time limited offers for consumers. Dr. Wang said: "There are a number of psychological reasons for expecting consumers' choices to be biased in favour of time-limited offers (and) accepting a time-limited offer is less risky than continuing to search for a better price. A consumer who rejects the offer and continues to search may find that the rejected offer was in fact the best available, and this may induce painful feelings of regret. Choosing the offer and terminating the search process can be a method of avoiding regret."

This research paper acknowledges the support of both NIBS1 and NIBS2 and all the authors responded to media enquiries which resulted in coverage including:

Daily Mail 24 October 2019
Science Daily 25 October 2019 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191025075840.htm
PhysOrg. Com 25 October 2019 https://phys.org/news/2019-10-shoppers-pressure.html
Long Room 26 October 2019 https://www.longroom.com/discussion/1677151/shoppers-tend-to-reject-offers-made-under-time-pressure
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2019.09.008
 
Description Tapping in: the Effect of Contactless Payment Methods on Spending, Debt and Cash Usage MvdA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Tapping in: the Effect of Contactless Payment Methods on Spending, Debt and Cash Usage - presentation by Merle van den Akker (NIBS PhD student at Warwick Business School) at the NIBS September 2020 Workshop, Day One, 14 September.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Testing preference reversals in risky choice with multiple value elicitation AL 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact 'Testing preference reversals in risky choice with multiple value elicitation' (joint work with Andrea Isoni and Graham Loomes) was presented by Ashley Luckman on 21 November 2019, at a CeDEx Brown Bag seminar, University of Nottingham. These PhD led seminars allow researchers to present design ideas to their peer group in order to refine the methodology before running the decision-making experiments.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description The Challenges Involved in Building Probabilistic Decision Models GL 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Graham Loomes presented, 'The Challenges Involved in Building Probabilistic Decision Models' on Tuesday 10 September 2019 at a Behavioural and Experimental Economics Workshop, organised by the Lancaster Experimental Economics Laboratory (LExEL) in honour of Al Roth (Nobel prize winner in 2012).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/images/lums/alumni-profiles/up...
 
Description The Challenges of Public Policy NC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Questioning Behaviour is a Podcast Series, produced and hosted by two NIBS PhD students - Sarah Bowen at Nottingham and Merle van den Akker at Warwick. In episode 11 they interview Nick Chater on how public policy has been approached for covid19... and for climate change.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://questioningbehaviour.podbean.com/e/episode-11-questioning-the-challenges-of-public-policy-wi...
 
Description The Community of Advantage ASSA Conference BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 5 January 2019. Bob Sugden was an invited speaker at the Allied Social Science Association's annual conference. He delivery a 'critical book symposium' on his book, The Community of Advantage. The event was organised by International Network for Economic Method.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description The Community of Advantage BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 6 Feb 2021 - Bob presented 'The community of advantage' at the 2021 Marshall Society Conference, University of Cambridge (online)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description The Community of Advantage Helsinki & Arizona BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Bob presented, 'The Community of Advantage' to an academic audience at these two seminars:

Philosophy, Politics and Economics seminar (online) hosted by the Center for Study of Economic Liberty, Arizona State University - 9 October 2020
Philosophy of Economics seminar (online) hosted by the Centre for Philosophy of Social Science, University of Helsinki - 19 October 2020
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description The Community of Advantage Ofcom BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact 6 May 2020 - Bob Sugden presented 'The community of advantage' to a group of regulators at an online seminar organised by Ofcom. This is one of a series of presentations on this topic.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description The Description - Experience gap in cooperation OK 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact The Description - Experience gap in cooperation was presented by Orestis Kopsacheilis (former NIBS Post Doc) at the NIBS Autumn Workshop 2021 (15-16 September). This was collaborative work with Dennie van Dolder (former NIBS Post Doc) and Ozan Isler (CeDEx at Nottingham).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description The EU Google Decisions: Extreme Enforcement or the Tip of the Behavioral Iceberg? AF 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The EU Google Decisions: Extreme Enforcement or the Tip of the Behavioral Iceberg? - was an article written by Amelia Fletcher and published by Competition Policy International (CPI) in their January 2019 Antitrust Chronicle. A copy of her article is available on the NIBS website.

This work was also presented at the Centre for Competition Policy seminar programme on 8 March 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://www.behavioural-science.ac.uk/esrc-nibs/documents/cpi-fletcher.pdf
 
Description The Future of Digital Regulation AF 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Amelia Fletcher participated in a roundtable discussion on The Future of Digital Regulation on 30 September 2019 at Oxera, London,
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description The Investment Effects of the GDPR Opt-In Requirement when Consumers are Loss Averse BL 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact The Investment Effects of the GDPR Opt-In Requirement when Consumers are Loss Averse was research presented by Bruce Lyons at the NIBS September 2018 workshop, which took place 17 to 19 September 2018 at the University of Nottingham.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description The Mere Urgency Effect: an artefact of experimental design? (Nottingham) RM 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The Mere Urgency Effect: an artefact of experimental design? was presented by NIBS PhD student, Richard Mills, at the University of Nottingham, as part of the first year PhD Conference - 16-17 September 2019. Richard also presented at the NIBS workshop from 18-20 September 2019 (this is logged separately). Comments from these presentations have fed into the final design of the research (which has been funded by a NIBS small grant).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description The Mere Urgency Effect: an artefact of experimental design? RM 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact The Mere Urgency Effect: an artefact of experimental design? was presented by Richard Mills (NIBS PhD Student) at the Autumn Workshop - 18 to 20 September 2019 at the University of Warwick. This piece of research has been funded by NIBS via our 'small grant' scheme.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description The Mind is Flat: The illusion of mental depth and the improvised mind NC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The Mind is Flat: The illusion of mental depth and the improvised mind was presented by Nick Chater on 28 August at the University of Trondheim

As advertised on Facebook, "This talk will present the case that there are no hidden depths, whether evolutionary, psychological, or economic, from which the real motivations for human behavior emerges Motives are, indeed, astonishingly shallow, with the illusion of depth sustained by our mental proximity of the actions of ourselves and other But the illusion of depth is of crucial importance: it helps us rule in our behavior, which would otherwise be more capricious and inconsistent. This thesis has implications for theories in psychology, economics, and ethics which are explicitly, or implicitly, committed to "deep" motivations underpinning human life".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://hi-in.facebook.com/events/251619989005957/
 
Description The Mind is Flat: Thought as Case-Law Not Naïve Science (Columbia) NC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Nick Chater presented his research on 'The Mind is Flat' during September 2018 at several universities including Columbia, during a visit to the USA. This talk was co-sponsored by the Columbia Economics Program for Economic Research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/decisionsciences/events/speakers
 
Description The Mind is Flat: Thought as Case-Law Not Naïve Science (Edinburgh) NC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 9 Nov 2018, Nick presented this work at the ILCC seminar, which took place at the University of Edinburgh.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description The Mind is Flat: Thought as Case-Law Not Naïve Science (Harvard) NC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 14 Sept 2018 Nick Chater presented, "The Mind is Flat" Seminar at the Psychology Dept, Harvard University.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description The Mind is Flat: Thought as Case-Law Not Naïve Science (New York) NC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 18 Sept 2018, Nick Chater presented, "The Mind is Flat" for an audience/seminar at Microsoft Research, New York.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description The Mind is Flat: Thought as Case-Law Not Naïve Science (Paris) NC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 6 November 2018, Nick Chater presented his research at Ecole Normal Superieure (Paris). The University advertised the talk as follows:

"The cognitive sciences often view thought as operating through tacit 'theories,' analogous to those of science. Such theories are organized sets of principles, which might be expressed in networks of beliefs, utilities, grammatical rules, moral norms, and more. But does a set of hidden, but general, theoretical principles really underpin thought and behavior? Finding such general principles has been a key goal in many areas of psychology, philosophy, linguistics and artificial intelligence. But our attempts to extract and formalize such principles lead continually rapidly into contradiction.

I argue that such principles-and mental "depths" in general---are illusory. Instead, the brain generalizes flexibly from specific local problem; and gradually creates a tradition of 'precedents' for dealing with new problems. Thus, the mind is analogous to case-law---in which each new case is addressed by finding links with past cases---rather than to science---in which new situations are dealt with by referring to hidden general rules."
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://lnc2.dec.ens.fr/en/agenda/mind-flat-thought-case-law-not-naive-science-10755
 
Description The Mind is Flat: Thought as Case-Law Not Naïve Science (Princeton) NC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Nick Chater presented this work at the University of Princeton (Department of Psychology) on Friday 21 September 2018 as part of a series of seminars he gave in USA, around the topic of 'the mind is flat' based on his research which was published by Yale University Press.

Chater, N. (2018). The Mind is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://psych.princeton.edu/event/nicholas-chater-university-warwick
 
Description The Mind is Flat: Thought as Case-Law Not Naïve Science (Yale) NC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact "The Mind is Flat: Thought as Case-Law Not Naïve Science" was presented by Nick Chater on Monday 24 September 2018 at Yale (Institution for Social and Policy Studies)

Abstract: The cognitive sciences often view thought as operating through tacit 'theories,' analogous to those of science. Such theories are organized sets of principles, which might be expressed in networks of beliefs, utilities, grammatical rules, moral norms, and more. But does a set of hidden, but general, theoretical principles really underpin thought and behavior? Finding such general principles has been a key goal in many areas of psychology, philosophy, linguistics and artificial intelligence. But our attempts to extract and formalize such principles lead continually rapidly into contradiction.

I argue that such principles-and mental "depths" in general - are illusory. Instead, the brain generalizes flexibly from specific local problems and gradually creates a tradition of 'precedents' for dealing with new problems. Thus, the mind is analogous to case-law - in which each new case is addressed by finding links with past cases - rather than to science - in which new situations are dealt with by referring to hidden general rules. (Chater, N. (2018). The Mind is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.)

The seminar was open to Yale Faculty, Yale Postdoctoral Trainees, Yale Graduate and Professional Students.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://isps.yale.edu/events/2018/09/the-mind-is-flat-thought-as-case-law-not-na%C3%AFve-science-nic...
 
Description The Power of Online Rankings and What To Do About Them AF 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Amelia Fletcher presented on The Power of Online Rankings and What To Do About Them, at the Network of Integrated Behavioural Science annual workshop, 18-20 September 2019 (University of Warwick).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description The Role of Deception in Stimulating Negative Evaluations of Win-Win Corporate Initiatives AI 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Andrea Isoni presented, "The Role of Deception in Stimulating Negative Evaluations of Win-Win Corporate Initiatives" at the NIBS September - 14 to 16 September 2020 (online).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description The Role of Deception in Stimulating Negative Evaluations of win-win Corporate Sustainability Initiatives AI 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact The Role of Deception in Stimulating Negative Evaluations of win-win Corporate Sustainability Initiatives - presentation by Andrea Isoni at the NIBS September 2020 Workshop on 16 September 2020. This research is a continuation of 'Tainted Nudge' and has been funded by NIBS.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description The Social Contract in Miniature NC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Nick Chater delivered the 4th Annual LSE Behavioural Public Policy Lecture on 17 March 2021. The title of Nick's talk was "The Social Contract in Miniature".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://economicspsychologypolicy.blogspot.com/2021/03/nick-chater-annual-behavioural-public.html
 
Description The biases that afflict leaders in a crisis NC 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Warwick Business School's Core Insights editorial team bring expert advice and knowhow to help organisations cope with the impact of the global pandemic. In episode 3 Nick Chater talks about the biases and heuristics that leaders suffer in a time of crisis. He suggests the tactics leaders can use to resist these very understandable biases that we often fall prey to, but can lead to taking wrong turns or a false sense of security.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.wbs.ac.uk/news/core-insights-podcast-series-leading-through-covid-19/
 
Description The community of advantage (and what's wrong with the nudge programme) BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact 17 April 2019, Bob Sugden was invited to give a talk, 'The community of advantage (and what's wrong with the nudge programme)' at a Forum organised by the Adam Smith Institute in London. Bob was the only speaker at this sell-out event, which was aimed at the general public.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.adamsmith.org/events/professor-robert-sugden-on-the-problems-with-nudging
 
Description The community of advantage, Rotterdam BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 29 Nov 2019 - Bob Sugden presented 'The community of advantage' at the 'dealing with normative issues in behavioural welfare economics' workshop, hosted by the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Rotterdam.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description The community of advantage: a behavioural economist's defence of the market BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 4 April 2019 - Bob was invited to speak about his book - The Community of Advantage. He delivered a talk, 'The community of advantage: a behavioural economist's defence of the market' at the Economic Science Institute, Chapman University, California.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description The determinants of consumer engagement MW 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The determinants of consumer engagement was presented by NIBS Post Doc (Mengjie Wang) at a CeDEx Brown Bag Seminar in Nottingham on 29 November 2018. Mengjie's project received NIBS funding (via our small grant scheme) and she presented her design/ work-in-progress to a peer group of Post Docs/PhDs to gain feedback. We anticipate she will present the full results at the NIBS 2019 September Meeting.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description The determinants of consumer engagement: a price prediction approach MW 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact The determinants of consumer engagement: a price prediction approach was presented by Mengjie Wang (NIBS Post Doc at UEA) at the NIBS Autumn Workshop 2021 (15-16 September)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.behavioural-science.ac.uk/documents/nibs-workshop-september-2021-programme-v2.pdf
 
Description The determinants of consumer engagement: valuing engagement TT 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact The determinants of consumer engagement: valuing engagement was presented by Ted Turocy (UEA) at the NIBS Autumn Workshop 2021 (15-16 September)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description The distribution of responsibility between consumers, firms and regulators - AF 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Our September 2020 event, 'behavioural science & market regulation' on 15 September, ended with a panel discussion - 'The distribution of responsibility between consumers, firms and regulators'. This was chaired by Amelia Fletcher (University of East Anglia). On the panel were:
• Kate Collyer (FCA)
• Stefano DellaVigna (UC Berkeley)
• Bruce Lyons (University of East Anglia and NIBS)
• John Vickers (University of Oxford)
• Mike Walker (CMA)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description The government should be up front about the trade-offs behind its new social distancing measures GL 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The government should be up front about the trade-offs behind its new social distancing measures - discussion article by Graham Loomes, published in The Conversation newsletter (online).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://theconversation.com/the-government-should-be-up-front-about-the-trade-offs-behind-its-new-so...
 
Description The interplay of multiple psychological processes underlying the attraction effect NP 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact NIBS PhD student, Neo Poon, with co-researchers Andrea Isoni, Tim Mullett an Ash Luckman presented their work in poster format, at the SPUDM 2021 event which took place 22 to 24 August 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description The semblance of success in nudging consumers to pay down credit card debt - NS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Neil Stewart (University of Warwick) presented 'The semblance of success in nudging consumers to pay down credit card debt' at the NIBS event, 'behavioural science & market regulation' on 15 September 2020. Tania Van Den Brande (Ofcom) was the discussant.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description The theoretical impossibility of a Paretian liberal and the empirical impossibility of behavioural welfare economics BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 15-16 December 2017 Bob Sugden was invited to present 'The theoretical impossibility of a Paretian liberal and the empirical impossibility of behavioural welfare economics' at the Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Behavioural Political Economy, which took place at the Walter Eucken Institute, Freiburg.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description The value of opportunity, and why it does not depend on assumptions about rational choice BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 12-14 April 2018, Bob Sugden was invited to present 'The value of opportunity, and why it does not depend on assumptions about rational choice' at the Behavioral economics and New Paternalism conference, which took place at the Classical Liberal Institute, New York University
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Time allocation and bracketing behaviours RM 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Time allocation and bracketing behaviours was presented by Richard Mills (Nottingham PhD student) at the NIBS Autumn Workshop 2021 (15-16 September)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Time and Risk Preferences when Outcomes Differ DR 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 17 May 2019 - Daniel Read presented, "Risk and time preference when outcomes differ" at the 3rd workshop of the Masters of Economics and Finance (Current Issues in Behavioural Economics from Theory to Applications) which took place at the Universidad de Navarra, Madrid
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Time, Psychology of Scarcity & Bracketing RM 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Time, Psychology of Scarcity & Bracketing - presentation by Richard Mills (NIBS PhD student at Nottingham) at the NIBS September 2020 Workshop, 16 September.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description To hide or not to hide: reporting mistakes RM 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Richard presented his NIBS research at the CCC meeting which took place online 20-21 May 2021. This annual PhD-led event is organised by the Universities of Nottingham, East Anglia and Amsterdam and it provides an opportunity for students to present, and gain feedback, from their peer group.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Too much choice? An experimental investigation (Birmingham) RC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 21 Nov 2018, Robin Cubitt presented Too much choice? An experimental investigation at a Departmental seminar (Economics), University of Birmingham
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Too much choice? An experimental investigation (Dublin) RC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 2 Nov 2018, Robin Cubitt presented Too much choice? An experimental investigation at a Departmental seminar (Economics), University College Dublin
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Too much choice? An experimental investigation (Konstanz) RC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 15th Jan 2019 Robin Cubitt presented Too much choice? An experimental investigation, at a Departmental seminar ("Research colloquium") University of Konstanz (Economics).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Too much choice? An experimental investigation JW 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Too much choice? An experimental investigation presented by Joerg Weber at IMEBESS, European University Institute, Florence. June 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Tools to enhance consumer decision-making in financial services: Pros and cons AF 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Amelia Fletcher presented on 'Tools to enhance consumer decision-making in financial services: Pros and cons' at the Finance Industry Group Norwich Conference, 23 November 2017, UEA Norwich. Around 120 academics and financial services industry practitioners
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Transactional Fairness (NIBS) BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Bob Sugden presented 'Transactional Fairness' at the NIBS workshop, 18 to 20 September 2019, University of Warwick. This is joint work with fellow NIBS Co-Investigator, Bruce Lyons.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Transactional Fairness (Ofgem) BS BL 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact 3 October 2019 Bruce Lyons (with Bob Sugden) was invited to present on 'Transactional fairness and unfair price discrimination in consumer markets' 'and transactional fairness' to regulators at Ofgem. He also presented again to Ofgem when they visited CCP on 19 November 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Transactional Fairness - BEIS BL BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Bob Sugden and Bruce Lyons gave a seminar on Transactional Fairness with BEIS consumer team, 26 April 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Transactional Fairness - Fair Value Roundtable BL 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact 4th May 2021 - Bruce Lyons presented on transactional fairness at the Fair Value roundtable organised by the FCA with participation by the chief economists of all the main UK regulators (CMA, FCA, OFCOM, OFGEM, OFWAT, PRA).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Transactional Fairness CCP 2021 BS BL 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Bob and Bruce presented their work on Transactional Fairness as part of the CCP 2021 Conference "Rethinking Consumer Policy: lessons learned and options for reform" which took place in June 2021. Their presentation is currently available to watch via the CCPs YouTube channel.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AORH8val394&list=PLtGTBuc0nlmcb7SHe8KLxasHDCSiITw_s&index=2
 
Description Transactional fairness and unfair price discrimination in consumer markets (FCA) BL BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Bob Sugden and Bruce Lyons presented on "Transactional fairness and unfair price discrimination in consumer markets" to the FCA on 25 January 2019, 24 June 2019 and 3 October 2019. This work has aroused a lot of interest among regulators, and led to Bob and Bruce being invited to present their ideas at seminars organised by other regulatory agencies.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Transactional fairness and unfair price discrimination in consumer markets (Ofcom) BL BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Bob Sugden and Bruce Lyons were invited to present on 'Transactional Unfairness' to Ofcom staff on 25 March 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Transactional fairness and unfair price discrimination in consumer markets BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Robert Sugden (University of East Anglia) presented 'Transactional fairness and unfair price discrimination in consumer markets' at the NIBS event 'behavioural science & market regulation' on 15 September 2020. The discussant was Rohan Grove (Competition and Markets Authority)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Trust and mutual benefit in markets RS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 13 Nov 2019 - Bob Sugden gave a seminar entitled, 'Trust and mutual benefit in markets' at the University of Sheffield.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Types of Remedies: Supply-side and Demand-side Remedies AF 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Amelia Fletcher presented, "Types of Remedies: Supply-side and Demand-side Remedies" at the 14th Annual Conference of the Global Competition Law Centre, Brussels, 31 January 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Unfair Price Discrimination - various venues BL BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Bob Sugden and Bruce Lyons gave a series of presentations on 'Unfair Price Discrimination' to several regulators (at their invitation). Their presentations drew on ideas from Bob's recent book on 'The Community of Advantage', and was one of a series of talks to regulators (at their invitation). Bruce and Bob are developing a conceptual framework that can be used to assess the fairness or unfairness of pricing strategies by firms. This involves a new concept of 'transactional fairness' applied to policy issues that are currently highly salient for regulators. The talks included:

Ofcom on 25 March 2019
FCA on 24 June 2019 and again on 3 October 2019
Ofgem on 3 October 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Unintended Consequences of Regulatory Interventions: An Introduction AF 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Amelia Fletcher presented on 'Unintended Consequences of Regulatory Interventions: An Introduction', at the CARR Workshop, London School of Economics, London on 18 October 2018. Around 30 academics, policy makers and practitioners were in attendance.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Unlocking Digital Competition AF 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact In 2019 Amelia Fletcher presented "Unlocking Digital Competition: A Perspective" to a selection of policymakers, private sector companies and academics. She presented at:

*the Financial Conduct Authority, London, 12 April (to around 60 policy makers)
*the Royal Economic Society conference, Warwick, 15 April (to around 40 academics and policy makers)
*Ofcom, London, 16 April (to around 80 policy makers)
*Society of Professional Economics, London, 25 Apri (to around 40 private sector practitioners and policy makers).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Unlocking Digital Competition: A Brief Reprise AF 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Fletcher A, presented 'Unlocking Digital Competition: A Brief Reprise' at the Global Competition Review Live conference, London, 17 June 2019. This Conference was attended by around 100 competition policy practitioners.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Unlocking Digital Competition: A Data Perspective AF 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Amelia Fletcher presented on Unlocking Digital Competition: A Data Perspective at the Regulatory Policy Institute annual conference, Oxford (18 September 2019).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Unlocking Digital Competition: A Perspective from the Furman Report AF 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Amelia Fletcher presented on Unlocking Digital Competition: A Perspective from the Furman Report, at the Portuguese Competition Authority on 12 September 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Using RTs to further explore preference reversals in risky valuations and choices AL 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Using RTs to further explore preference reversals in risky valuations and choices was presented by Ashley Luckman (NIBS Post Doc) at the NIBS Workshop - 18 to 20 September (University of Warwick).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.behavioural-science.ac.uk/documents/nibs-workshop-september-2019-as-of-09-september-2019...
 
Description Using response times to distinguish between attribute-wise and alternate-wise intertemporal choice AL 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Ashley Luckman presented, "Using response times to distinguish between attribute-wise and alternate-wise intertemporal choice" at Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making (SPUDM). The workshop took place 18 to 22 August 2019 at the University of Amsterdam. The University of Amsterdam is one of NIBS' international partners so not only was this an opportunity for our Post Doc to share his research, but it was also a good networking opportunity.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/a14b80_d7a3ae5f7d8549309a0867cc8a852faf.pdf
 
Description Views from somewhere: a celebration of the work of Bob Sugden 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 5 September 2019, The University of East Anglia in collaboration with NIBS, organised a special workshop to pay tribute to Professor Bob Sugden. Bob didn't present his research at the event, but instead other colleagues spoke about their work and Bob's influence. Bob gave a short closing speech at the end of the event.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Virtual Bargaining: The social contract in miniature NC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Virtual Bargaining: The social contract in miniature was presented by Nick Chater at MIT Sloan School of Management, on 13 September 2018. During his visit to the USA he also presented at several other prestigious universities on the topic of, 'The Mind is Flat'. These talks are recorded individually in Researchfish.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Vulnerable Consumers and Trust in Markets AF 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Amelia Fletcher chaired a session at a Competition and Markets Authority Symposium on "Vulnerable Consumers and Trust in Markets", London, 23 July 2018. Attended by around 80 academics and practitioners.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Warwick Behavioural Science Summit 2019 NP 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 20 June 2019 - Neo Poon attended/participated in the Warwick Behavioural Science Summit 2019 (Health & Well-being), organised by the Warwick Behavioural Insights Team.

The summit provided different perspectives, from theoretical advances in Behavioural Science to challenges of bringing interventions to life. This annual event aims to bridge the gap between academics and professionals, public and private sectors. It provided an opportunity for everyone to hear inspiring ideas, form potential partnerships, find prospective employees, and discover new trends in Behavioural Science.


Warwick participant
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.wbs.ac.uk/events/view/5948
 
Description Wearing face masks makes people more careless and less likely to abide by social distancing guidelines, research shows AL 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact NIBS researchers tested for risk compensation related to mask usage during the Covid-19 pandemic in two online experiments that investigated whether either wearing a mask or seeing others wearing masks reduced physical distancing. As a result of publishing a working paper about their research, the working paper was cited in several media outlets, and the authors were interviewed on Bloomberg, Sky News and Russia Today.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8659487/Wearing-face-masks-makes-people-careless-lik...
 
Description Welfare or opportunity? Reconciling normative economics with behavioural findings BS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 6-7 June 2019. Bob Sugden was invited to present, 'Welfare or opportunity? Reconciling normative economics with behavioural findings' at a Workshop entitled 'Welfare, preferences and risk: theory, behavioural evidence and policy' which took place at the London School of Economics. The Workshop had Bob's book (The Community of Advantage), as its focus.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description What Lies Beneath? NC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact The Psychologist published an article by Nick Chater (July 2019) - What Lies Beneath? In this article Nick proposes that "we can't uncover the depths of our own minds, not because those depths are murky or difficult to fathom: but because ... there are no depths to uncover. The stream of our conscious experience is a flow of improvised interpretation and re-interpretation: of our environment, art-works, poems, other people, and even ourselves".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-32/october-2019/what-lies-beneath
 
Description What is the point of behavioural public policy? A contractarian approach NC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Nick gave a seminar followed by a developmental workshop at the Nottingham University Business School, Centre for Research in the Behavioural Sciences (CRIBS). 16 June 2022. Prof Chater draws on his 'real-world' experience of applying behavioural insights in practical contexts.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Who won the war? we did, days everyone NC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Who won the war? We did, says everyone - The Conversation (August 2019). Nick argues our national collective memories seem to be deceiving us, and this is part of a far more general pattern.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://theconversation.com/who-won-the-war-we-did-says-everyone-121767
 
Description Why do people pay not to go to the gym? AI 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Why do people pay not to go to the gym? was presented by Andrea Isoni (WBS) at the NIBS Autumn Workshop 2021 (hosted online).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Why do people pay not to go to the gym? SPUDM AI 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Andrea Isoni presented his research in poster format at the SPUDM 2021 event which took place online from 22 to 24 August 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Why we are paying off our credit cards all wrong JW 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Why we are paying off our credit cards all wrong by Shane Wright, Economics Editor at The West Australian, published online Sunday, 1 April 2018. This article relates to research by John Gathergood, Neale Mahoney, Neil Stewart and Joerg Weber.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://thewest.com.au/opinion/opinion-why-we-are-paying-off-our-credit-calls-all-wrong-ng-b88790529...
 
Description Would you stand up to an oppressive regime or would you conform: Here's the science NC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Would you stand up to an oppressive regime or would you conform: Here's the science - an article by Nick Chater published in The Conversation, October 2019. Nick believes a small number of us would rebel against an oppressive regime, but not primarily based on differences in individual moral character. Instead the rebels would find different norms and ideals, shared with fellow members of the resistance, or inspired by history or literature, because breaking out of one set of norms requires that we have an available alternative.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://theconversation.com/would-you-stand-up-to-an-oppressive-regime-or-would-you-conform-heres-th...
 
Description You may be paying off your credit card debt wrong-here's the best way JW 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact You may be paying off your credit card debt wrong-here's the best way, an article by Emmie Martin was published in CNBC on 9 February 2018. This was informed by research undertaken by John Gathergood, Neale Mahoney, Neil Stewart and Joerg Weber.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/09/why-snowball-method-is-best-way-to-pay-off-debt.html