Do people really want to be nudged towards healthy lifestyles?

People can expect longer and healthier lives if they make certain kinds of lifestyle choices.  This is known not only to health specialists, but also to the general public.  The considered advice of medical and public health experts is readily available in forms that are designed to be easily understood.  In the UK, for example, …

The Strangeness of Tradition

In case you missed it, it’s well worth listening again to this episode of the Human Zoo (series 7), first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 22 December 2015.  Hear NIBS Co-Investigator’s Nick Chater (University of Warwick) and Bob Sugden (University of East Anglia) talk about “The Strangeness of Tradition“. Christmas is the time of year …