Journal articles, books, and commissioned reports
We share behavioural science findings, explore practical policy applications, and contribute to public debate.
- Supervision for success: Helping young Tasmanians succeed in work (commissioned by Social Ventures Australia)”
- Pathways to Participation : A Behavioural Science Review of Young People’s Engagement in Education, Employment and Training (commissioned by Jobs Tasmania, Department of State Growth (Tasmanian Government)
- Behavioural Economics of Cardio-Vascular Screening Decisions (PDF 836.0 KB) (commissioned by St Luke’s)
- Elgar Encyclopedia of Behavioural and Experimental Economics
- Motivating Action: Closing the gender pay gap in Victorian businesses 2024 (PDF) (commissioned by Victorian Government)
- How Gamification Can Boost Employee Engagement (Harvard Business Review)
- A Qualitative Examination of Incentives to Deploy on Military Operations (Australian Government Department of Defence)
- An Interdisciplinary Examination of Incentives to Deploy on Military Operations (Australian Government Department of Defence)
- Emergent Adulthood: Review of Literature (PDF) (for the Youth Network of Tasmania)
- Applying insights from behavioural economics to increase volunteering (PDF) (for Volunteering Australia)
- Behavioural Business: The Psychology of Decisions in Economy, Business and Policy Contexts (Springer)
- Applying behavioural insights to online wagering (with the Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government ) (Video)
- Asthma community readiness in Tasmania: Rubrics Development and Pilot Findings
- Soft plastics recycling looks set to return to supermarkets. Cutting back on plastic would be even better
- After years of backsliding, the ADF is growing again. What’s behind the recruitment uptick?
- Why your spin bike has become a clothes rack – and what you can do about it, according to behavioural science
- People don’t like a ‘white saviour’, but does it affect how they donate to charity?
- Gen Z is turning away from military service in record numbers. We’re trying to understand why
- Red tape can strangle your key asset as an employee: your motivation
- Recruiting for the modern military: new research examines why people choose to serve and who makes the ideal soldier
- Are nudges sinister psychological tricks? Or are they useless? Actually, they are neither
- Male artists dominate galleries. Our research explored if it’s because ‘women don’t paint very well’ – or just discrimination
- Inflationary psychology could make things worse, but for now it’s in check
- We’re obsessed with shows about con artists like Inventing Anna: the fascination lies in how easily these people can dupe us
- Gamblers bet more when in the dark: feedback can curb their online losses
- Why lotteries, doughnuts and beer aren’t the right vaccination ‘nudges’
- From UFOs to COVID conspiracy theories, we all struggle with the ‘truth out there’
- The commuter’s paradox: there’s something to gain in the space between home and work
- Even with a vaccine, we need to adjust our mindset to playing the COVID-19 long game
- Beyond the police state to COVID-safe: life after lockdown will need a novel approach
- Playing the COVID-19 blame game may feel good, but it could come at a cost — the government’s credibility
- What to do with anti-maskers? Punishment has its place, but can also entrench resistance
- Explainer: how our understanding of risk is changing
- Hard work, not ‘Confucian’ mentality, underpins Chinese success overseas
- Thomas Schelling: the legacy of a master strategist