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Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology. -- Evan Davis
I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now. -- Trisha Goddard
The tabloids are like animals, with their own behavioural patterns. There's no point in complaining about them, any more than complaining that lions might eat you. -- David Mellor
Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there. -- Kary Mullis
The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers. -- Niall Ferguson
There are several ways we can know what a dog, a bird or, indeed, any other organism can see, for example either by looking at the structure of the eye and comparing it with other species, or by behavioural tests. -- Tim Birkhead
Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to a residential centre where girls with behavioural problems were 'evaluated'. My time there comes back to me now only in flashes of smells, images and sounds. -- Liz Murray
Since the web is totally worldwide, we need a set of behavioural rules, laws they are commonly called, that are accepted worldwide. There is a big difference as to how things are treated in the U.S. and Europe and Asia. -- Robert Cailliau
Today, you have neuroscientists working on a genetic, behavioural or cognitive level, and then you have informaticians, chemists and mathematicians. They all have their own understanding of how the brain functions and is structured. How do you get them all around the same table? -- Henry Markram
Research has shown that it takes 31 days of conscious effort to make or break a habit. That means, if one practices something consistently for 31 days, on the 32nd day it does become a habit. Information has been internalised into behavioural change, which is called transformation. -- Shiv Khera
Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption. -- Evan Davis
The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it's probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently. -- David Eagleman
Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively. -- Evan Davis
Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures. -- Lewis Thomas
The virtues of character, behavioural patterns determine how great a nation and people are. -- Sunday Adelaja
Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation -- Shiv Khera
The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better -- David Hemenway
Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences. -- Daniel J. Siegel
I have been in a youth hostel...You are put in a kitchen with seventeen venture scouts with behavioural difficulties and made to wash swedes. -- Victoria Wood
Well if manners maketh man make-up maketh woman.And we don't need a phalanx of behavioural scientists to explain why man judge women by their looks.Because the see bether than thay think. -- Kathy Lette

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