Dec 06 2023
This week I travelled to New Zealand to attend the 25th edition of the Australian New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference. It was fun to learn that the very first edition of this conference, way back in 1998, was also held at the University of Otago in Dunedin. Apparently, at that first meeting, there were approximately …
Sep 25 2018
Today I presented to the Sydney Behavioural Economics & Behavioural Science Meetup group. It is great that this group exists and allows people from different backgrounds – industry, government, and academia – to grab a beer and discuss behavioural science. My talk was provocatively titled “Nudges vs. Boosts“. Here’s the blurb: There are many interventions that …
Feb 16 2018
Today I had the great pleasure to travel down to Melbourne and present an introductory behavioural economics talk to approximately 100 interested staff members at the National Australia Bank. I covered many of the basic concepts including loss aversion, prospect theory, mental accounting, and the endowment effect. There were some great questions at the end, …
Jan 05 2018
This week I was fortunate to be one of the few to participate in the Society for Consumer Psychology Boutique Conference on Vice and Virtue Consumption. One of the great things about small conferences – this one had less than 120 attendees – is that you get a lot more interaction with people. I find that conversations …
Nov 01 2016
Today I took advantage of Ralph Hertwig’s long-standing offer to come and visit the Center for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute of Human Development. The last time I visited the Institute was way back in 2000 for a summer school. I have fond memories. For example, I remember watching an epic soccer match in which Germany lost …
Oct 21 2016
Simone Wies invited me to Goethe University in Frankfurt to spend some time with the marketing folk for a few days. It was fun to briefly relive our shared office experience (although, I must point out that Simone’s current office space is more than twice that of our old combined office spaces at Duke, and it includes a mini table …
Aug 28 2016
Earlier this year, I decided to lead a public lecture given by the RMIT Behavioural Business Lab on human irrationality as part of National Science Week. We were very happy to see some 50 engaged Melbournians attend our event, which was held in RMIT’s Storey Hall at 7pm on Thursday August 18th. The idea was to give the …
Jun 27 2016
In June I travelled to Toronto – my birthplace! – to participate in the 2016 Behavioral Decision Research in Management (#BDRM2016) conference. I really enjoyed the conference, which was bookended with an opening keynote by Ernst Fehr and a closing keynote by Elke Weber. The final conference dinner was held atop the amazing CN Tower with …
Nov 25 2015
This week I travel back to beautiful Sydney (where I lived for 25 years!) to present at the 2015 meeting of the Australia New Zealand Marketing Academy, which is being hosted by my alma mater, UNSW. My talk is called “Probability-Based Loyalty Programs Increase Motivation”, which is work done together with my collaborators, Prof. Liyin Jin and Prof. Ying Zhang. …
Aug 08 2015
On Wednesday August 5th 2015 the Behavioural Business Lab (BBL) together with the Victorian Behavioural Insights Network, hosted an event at RMIT: “Experiments for public policy – A beginners guide”. The session began with myself giving a 30 minute lecture about what experiments are all about, and how they could be leveraged by those in public …
