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New frontiers in financial services. Dragon’s den style introduced you Pantelis Solomon and @claudiahammond (Thread) #BX2019 
Challenges with saving:
- Predicting the future
- Trade offs
- Life gets in the way
- Predicting the future
- Trade offs
- Life gets in the way
Social norms matter! @betsylevyp at #BX2019 (Thread)
Social norm perception:
Perceptions of what is typical or (increasingly) desirable in your community. #BX2019
Perceptions of what is typical or (increasingly) desirable in your community. #BX2019
How do we change behaviour?
The standard answer: Information
But we all know that information on its own doesn’t work. There is a gap between intentions and actions.
#BX2019
The standard answer: Information
But we all know that information on its own doesn’t work. There is a gap between intentions and actions.
#BX2019
A simple model for changing behaviour:
- Friction (make it easy. Lower barriers)
- Fuel (create motivation.)
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- Friction (make it easy. Lower barriers)
- Fuel (create motivation.)
#BX2019
How to build a better organisation: using behavioural science to improve the way we work. (Thread) #BX2019
Why did @LaszloBock start @humuinc ?
Laszlo’s mission: ‘Can we take what we learnt about behavioural science at Google, and apply it more generally?’ #BX2019
Laszlo’s mission: ‘Can we take what we learnt about behavioural science at Google, and apply it more generally?’ #BX2019
Humu’s approach:
Start with science (experimentation), as opposed to ending with science (rationalization).
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Start with science (experimentation), as opposed to ending with science (rationalization).
#BX2019
How do people decide what they want to know? With Tali Sharpy @affectivebrain, @CassSunstein, and @SamuelNHanes moderating. Thread!
Tali explains that people want to know information if they can take action. (And sometimes avoid information of they can't take action based on it.) #bx2019 @BXconference
But pleasure from knowledge matters too. Tali calls this hedonic utility. Hence avoidance (by some) on predisposition to cancer. Tali calls this hedonic utility. #bx2019 @BXconference
Nick Chater persuades us that the mind is flat (thread). #BX2019
We live with a profound illusion, sustained by the experience that whatever we pay attention to seems incredibly complex.
The detail isn’t actually there. We find it when we need it. #BX2019
The detail isn’t actually there. We find it when we need it. #BX2019
The Kuleshov effect. The faces are exactly the same, influenced the images on the right. #BX2019
Narrative Economics:
The digitization of human text, and the ability to track this data and make sense of human behaviour using it as an lens.
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The digitization of human text, and the ability to track this data and make sense of human behaviour using it as an lens.
#BX2019
Why is this important?
People change their minds. This is largely driven by human speech, and speech involves narratives at its core.
#BX2019
People change their minds. This is largely driven by human speech, and speech involves narratives at its core.
#BX2019
