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- Blog
- 9th Jul 2024
How do you know that? Someone on Reddit told me
Forums are one of the oldest forms of online communication, where people can freely ask questions - from the weird and wonderful, to practical advice from strangers.
- Blog
- 3rd Jul 2024
Smarter delivery on policy can reap big gains for the next UK Government - even with constrained finances
Tomorrow the UK heads to the polls to choose their next government. In anticipation, Lucy Makinson, BIT’s Head of Policy, considers how an incoming government can deliver impact, even in the face of fiscal constraint.
- Blog
- 3rd Jul 2024
Celebrating Argentina’s first behavioral insights unit
Three years ago, Argentina’s first behavioral insights unit was born. The Behavioral Sciences and Public Policy Unit (UCCPP) was an incredible example of the promise for applied behavioral science in Latin America.
- Blog
- 3rd Jul 2024
Celebrando la primera unidad de ciencias del comportamiento de Argentina
Bajo la dirección de Iván Budassi y Fernando Torrente, el equipo de ocho personas logró grandes progresos en sólo tres años. Pusieron a prueba intervenciones, participaron en el debate público, proporcionaron asesoramiento basado en evidencia, y mucho más.
- Press release
- 21st May 2024
BIT and Ofcom trial methods to boost engagement with content controls on social media sites
BIT and Ofcom’s Behavioural Insight specialists ran two online trials to test different ways of encouraging people to use content controls.
- Blog
- 2nd Apr 2024
Meta’s Community Forum on AI
Our ongoing partnership with Meta has yielded strong evidence that deliberative processes are promising mechanisms for platform governance. Last October, building on earlier deliberative processes and our focus on AI, BIT designed and delivered a third Community Forum (CF) sponsored by Meta and working with Stanford University’s Deliberative Democracy Lab.
- Blog
- 27th Mar 2024
Realizing the promise of digital anti-corruption tools
Digital tools are promising in the fight against corruption.
- Blog
- 20th Mar 2024
How can a behavioral science lens reduce corruption?
Since 2019, BIT has been partnering with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation on their On Nigeria Big Bet. The initiative aims to bolster the momentum around Nigerian-led efforts to strengthen accountability, reduce corruption, and improve the quality of life for Nigerians.
- Working paper
- 18th Mar 2024
The Shrouded Economy
Executive summary Across the economy, consumers struggle to tell the difference between good and bad products. Critical information, from price to quality, is either missing, hard to access, or hard to compare. The markets are ‘shrouded’. This has obvious costs for consumers, but the effects on the economy run much…
- Blog
- 12th Mar 2024
Improving government communications with behavioral insights
Governments across the U.S. are responsive to residents' needs every day. But what happens when a state can be proactive, and focus on an initiative to support people long term?