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The Behaviouralist is a research consultancy with a unique blend of academic insight and applied experience.
We founded The Behaviouralist in 2014 to help solve some of the biggest problems facing society, from reducing pollution and waste to boosting productivity, growth, and wellbeing.The Behaviouralist is a research consultancy with a unique blend of academic prowess and applied experience.
After running some of UK’s earliest applied behavioural economics trials, in 2014, we founded The Behaviouralist to help solve some of the biggest problems facing society - from reducing pollution and waste to boosting productivity, growth, and wellbeing.Meet our team

Prof. Robert Hahn

Prof. Rob Metcalfe
Co-Founder & CRO

Jesper Akesson

Manuel Monti-Nussbaum
Senior Data Scientist

Ian Redpath
Senior Behavioural Scientist

Iranzu Monreal
Senior Behavioural Service Designer

Filippo Muzi-Falconi
Senior Behavioural Scientist

Ondrej Kacha
Senior Behavioural Scientist

JingKai Ong

Hannah Chappell

Rahel Kiss
Behavioural Design Intern

Catalina Grosz
Research and Communications Intern

Hanna Truu
Office Administrator

Itzhak Rasooly

Canishk Naik
Research Associate
John is an American economist at the University of Chicago, where he serves as Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the Chairman of the Department of Economics.
List is noted for his innovative use of field experiments to offer new insights in various areas of economics research.
Diane is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and former Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester. She is a member of the Natural Capital Committee, a Fellow of the Office for National Statistics, and a researcher at the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence. She specialises in the economics of new technologies, markets and competition policy.
Alex is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow at St. Catherine’s College. He is also the Deputy Director of the Economics of Sustainability group at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School and a co-founder of Refugees’ Say, an organisation that is developing new technology for refugee resettlement.
Author of “The Economics of the Financial Crisis”, he is a two-times winner of the Rybczynski Prize for best paper in business economics, awarded by the Society of Business Economists in London. He has extensive experience (seven years as Chief Economist and Head of Business Innovation Strategy at GE) and he is also a member of the Board of Advisors on Information Technology at Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
We're very excited to be attending the London Behavioural Sciences Careers Fair today - if you're attending, stop by and say hello!
#Careers #behaviouralscience
What are the most effective tactics to recruit individuals onto fitness programmes? Check out our recent case to learn more about how imagery affects programme recruitment:
#sport #fitness #behaviouralscience

“That looks like me…”: How marketing imagery impacts the profile of participants recruited onto a sport programme - The Behaviouralist
Sport Ireland, Local Sports Partnership (LSP) network We worked with Sports Ireland and the Local Sports Partnership (LSP) network to explore the impa...
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What does the future hold for #behaviouraldesign? Ruth Schmidt explores this challenging question in @behscientist this week:

Three Tensions Behavioral Design Must Navigate - By Ruth Schmidt - Behavioral Scientist
Design’s development from buzzy hotshot to established practice offers insight into the path behavioral design could take and the choices it wil...
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Computational social science can help us understand and facilitate climate change action, according to recent work from Debnath and colleagues published in @NaturePortfolio:
#climatechange #behaviouralscience

Facilitating system-level behavioural climate action using computational social science
Nature Human Behaviour - Facilitating system-level behavioural climate action using computational social science
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We're thrilled to be attending the Behavioural Science Public Health Network Conference today and sharing our work with like-minded colleagues from across the UK!
#BSPHN2023 #publichealth #behaviouralscience
This week we explore some of the challenges that come with #AI powered tools like #ChatGPT. Check out our latest blog post to learn more about this important topic:

ChatGPT is great, but... - The Behaviouralist
By Catalina Grosz Share It is very likely that the name ChatGPT has recently made its way into your conversations. OpenAI’s natural language p...
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This year #BehavioralValentines writers will need to compete against #ChatGPT for the best romantic rhyme. Can you spot the human touch? Test your skills with @behscientist's Valentines quiz

Humans vs. AI in the Quest to Be the Bard of #BehavioralValentines - Behavioral Scientist
Will human or machine pen the perfect love poem for your behavioral valentine?
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(1/n) Please read: A thread about the #earthquakes #deprem
The earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria have been far more devastating than they seem, and the information provided in international outlets just scratches the surface.
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Some recent research conducted by our team!

This study conducts two experiments to show that beliefs about the racial identity of welfare recipients have a significant impact on support for welfare.
@jesper_akesson @Tbehaviouralist, R Hahn @TheSmithSchool, @RDMetcalfe @USC_Econ, I Rasooly @PSEinfo
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