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View article: Large Language Models Are More Persuasive Than Incentivized Human Persuaders
Large Language Models Are More Persuasive Than Incentivized Human Persuaders Open
We directly compare the persuasion capabilities of a frontier large language model (LLM; Claude Sonnet 3.5) against incentivized human persuaders in an interactive, real-time conversational quiz setting. In this preregistered, large-scale …
View article: Education is Effective in Improving Students’ Ethical and Moral Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Education is Effective in Improving Students’ Ethical and Moral Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Open
Addressing society's greatest challenges, such as climate change, requires us to act as moral agents. If effective, interventions within schools and universities could cultivate ethical and moral attributes in millions of people. In this p…
View article: The AI Risk Repository
The AI Risk Repository Open
The risks posed by Artificial Intelligence (AI) are of considerable concern to academics, auditors, policymakers, AI companies, and the public. However, a lack of shared understanding of AI risks can impede our ability to comprehensively d…
View article: Survey of Australians on Giving Effectively: Research Report
Survey of Australians on Giving Effectively: Research Report Open
We conducted the online Survey of Australians on Giving Effectively (SAGE) of 1,059 Australians in May 2024 to investigate Australians’ attitudes towards effective charitable giving - that is, giving to charities and programs that do more …
View article: Understanding and changing community attitudes towards vulnerable families: A review of literature and practice
Understanding and changing community attitudes towards vulnerable families: A review of literature and practice Open
Background: Communities can play an important role in protecting children and supporting vulnerable families. However, there is currently a lack of understanding regarding what communities actually think and do regarding these groups. Obje…
View article: What Works to Increase Charitable Donations? A Meta-Review with Meta-Meta-Analysis
What Works to Increase Charitable Donations? A Meta-Review with Meta-Meta-Analysis Open
Many charities rely on donations to support their work addressing some of the world’s most pressing problems. We conducted a meta-review to determine what interventions work to increase charitable donations. We found 21 systematic reviews …
View article: Chapter 9: Using generic behaviour change tools when time and resources are scarce
Chapter 9: Using generic behaviour change tools when time and resources are scarce Open
In Chapter 8, you learnt how to match behavioural influences to intervention options, prioritise interventions, and carry out an intervention co-design. All of these steps will help you to develop an intervention but require sufficient tim…
View article: Interventions that Influence Animal-Product Consumption: A Meta-Review
Interventions that Influence Animal-Product Consumption: A Meta-Review Open
Transitioning toward plant-based diets can alleviate health and sustainability challenges. However, research on interventions that influence animal-product consumption remains fragmented and inaccessible to researchers and practitioners. W…
View article: Chapter 2: Systems Thinking and Behaviour
Chapter 2: Systems Thinking and Behaviour Open
As a society, we are dealing with increasingly complex\nproblems and working in environments where there are many competing agendas. To\nbuild a shared understanding of the problem and uncover insights on the changes\nthat organisations ca…
View article: Barriers to the Circular Economy in Australia and the European Union (EU): A comparative mixed methods review
Barriers to the Circular Economy in Australia and the European Union (EU): A comparative mixed methods review Open
After the disruptions to international flows of low-grade recycling in 2018, jurisdictions like Australia are placing increased priority on transitioning to a more sustainable, circular economy (CE). In other jurisdictions, like the EU, CE…
View article: Scale up of behaviour change interventions: A rapid review of international evidence and practice
Scale up of behaviour change interventions: A rapid review of international evidence and practice Open
Behaviour science has been applied for public value by more than 100 government and public purpose organisations worldwide. Much of this work has focused on evidence production through rigorous research design and theories of behaviour cha…
View article: Age and education moderate the relationship between confidence in health and political authorities and intention to adopt COVID-19 health-protective behaviours
Age and education moderate the relationship between confidence in health and political authorities and intention to adopt COVID-19 health-protective behaviours Open
PurposeResponding to worldwide pandemics, such as the recent COVID-19, requires the general public to comply with recommended health-protective behaviours at early stages of the spread of the virus. MethodologyThe current study of 1,211 Au…
View article: Information Safety Assurances Increase Intentions to Use COVID-19 Contact Tracing Applications, Regardless of Autonomy-Supportive or Controlling Message Framing
Information Safety Assurances Increase Intentions to Use COVID-19 Contact Tracing Applications, Regardless of Autonomy-Supportive or Controlling Message Framing Open
Promoting the use of contact tracing technology will be an important step in global recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Across two studies, we assessed two messaging strategies as motivators of intended contact tracing uptake. In one samp…
View article: Physical activity and sedentary behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic: An Australian population study
Physical activity and sedentary behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic: An Australian population study Open
BACKGROUND:Participating in physical activity (PA) and minimising time spent sedentary is important to achieve and maintain good health. Time spent being physically active and sedentary could be negatively influenced by the 2019 global pan…
View article: What works to increase charitable donations? A meta-review with meta-meta-analysis
What works to increase charitable donations? A meta-review with meta-meta-analysis Open
Many charities rely on donations to support their work addressing some of the world’s most pressing problems. We conducted a meta-review to determine what interventions work to increase charitable donations. We found 21 systematic reviews …
View article: SCRUB: Survey of COVID-19 Responses to Understand Behaviour - Public Summary
SCRUB: Survey of COVID-19 Responses to Understand Behaviour - Public Summary Open
The Survey of COVID-19 Responses to Understand Behaviour (SCRUB) seeks to understand behaviour and its drivers in the context of COVID-19. We are conducting a survey with both repeated cross-sectional and longitudinal sampling -- to track …
View article: Additional file 4 of Research co-design in health: a rapid overview of reviews
Additional file 4 of Research co-design in health: a rapid overview of reviews Open
Additional file 4: Records excluded at full text screening
View article: Interventions that Influence Animal-Product Consumption: A Meta-Review
Interventions that Influence Animal-Product Consumption: A Meta-Review Open
Review question(s) 1) What interventions influence the dietary consumption of animal-based products? 1a) What does the combined information from all systematic reviews indicate? 1b) How well do current systematic reviews use best-practice …
View article: Persuasion: An Analysis and Common Frame of Reference for IS Research
Persuasion: An Analysis and Common Frame of Reference for IS Research Open
Information systems (IS) researchers persistently examine how information and communications technology (ICT) changes attitudes and behaviors but rarely leverage the persuasion literature when doing so possibly due to this literature’s wel…
View article: Research co-design in health: an overview of reviews
Research co-design in health: an overview of reviews Open
BACKGROUNDBillions of dollars are lost annually in health research that fails to create meaningful benefits for patients. Engaging in research co-design - the meaningful involvement of end-users in research - may help address this research…