Human Behaviour
Health & Medicine
Overcoming our psychological barriers to embracing AI
A new study highlights the best ways of addressing barriers to adopting AI and the risks and benefits involved
Business & Economics
Every Sherlock needs a Watson (or two)
Creatives often need colleagues to be catalysts, but how can organisations identify and foster these catalysts – and can too much become cataclysmic?
Health & Medicine
Can your personality be good, or bad, for your health?
The HILDA 2019 Survey finds intriguing links between dominant personality traits and the onset of serious illness – but it’s more likely to do with the behaviours linked to those traits
Politics & Society
5 modern philosophical dilemmas
A new ABC TV series looks at the role of philosophy in society - its host Dr Daniel Halliday examines how this wisdom can be applied to very modern dilemmas
Sciences & Technology
Clock on: When weather gets into a routine
Driving cars and using electricity is changing the city around us, with new analysis suggesting it is also forcing nature to conform to our weekly working routines
Business & Economics
Taking the risk out of decision-making
How we assess risk is influenced by how others are behaving – the trick is to keep your head while those around you are losing theirs
Arts & Culture
Go Figure
Why boys are blue and girls are pink
Hundreds of years ago the two colours told a very different story, but the current status quo will be hard to budge
Sciences & Technology
Breaking: Pigs like cuddles too
We get a boost in oxytocin or ‘love hormone’ levels after cuddling or positive interaction, now a world-first study shows pigs work the same way
Health & Medicine
Go Figure
Now we know: Why we stand in queues
Queuing is governed as much by environmental design as unspoken rules promoting equality and efficiency
Business & Economics
Bubbly personality: how our biology hits budgets
Economics and neuroscience are coming together to help solve market bubbles and crashes, by investigating how financial decisions are tied to our biological makeup