Session two
🐘 Changing behaviour
Session two memory deck
The memory deck is a cut-down and annotated version of the slides we followed in our workout together. The idea is for this to act as an aid to your memory as well as let you share models and ideas with your team.
Attestation Journey – Behaviour Report
Password protected: behaviour
Cooldown activities
To read…
Placebo design
In this short essay, I explore wether design can be a placebo. I descibe how placebos work and give examples in sport and medicine and then transfer the idea to how design can also create a placebo effect. This is useful to remember why the perception of something is often more important than the reality.
The Choice Factory by Richard Shotton
A great way to learn about the biases people have when making decisions. Clearly structured so you can pick up 25 biases from this book.
The Behaviour Change Techniques Taxonomy
From the COM-B model of behaviour change, this lists and describes all the techniques which can be applied when attempting to change behaviour.
To watch…
Are we in control of our own decisions?
Dan Ariely’s first TED talk – and still his best I think. He covers the example we went through on the power of using defaults for organ donations and lots more interesting research from his team at Duke University.
The Technology Acceptance Model
Lear more about this very simple model.
To listen…
The Teenage Brain (Infinite Monkey Cage)
Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by impressionist Rory Bremner, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Professor of Zoology at Manchester University Matthew Cobb to look at the working of the teenage brain.
Broadcast 29 January 2018