In today's episode of the Questioning Behaviour Podcast, Sarah and Merle talk to Melina Palmer, podcast host of the Brainy Business, author of "What Your Customer Wants, And Can't Tell You", about her work, about behavioural science and mostly about incentives for "good" behaviours.

In the after chat podcast hosts Merle and Sarah get philosophical about incentives and the "right" reason for doing something.

twitter: https://twitter.com/thebrainybiz

BEthoughtful: https://be-thoughtful-revolution.mn.co/feed

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In this episode of the Questioning Behaviour Podcast, Sarah and Merle chat with Jesal Sheth as part of the "Early Career Behavioural Researcher" series. 

We discuss Jesal's path onto doing the PhD, going back into Industry and then back into doing an industry-focused postdoc. Sometimes you can have the best of both worlds!

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/jesaldilipsheth/

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In this episode of the Questioning Behaviour Podcast, Sarah and Merle interview Fadi Makki about his work in the Middle East. They discuss the founding of the Citizen's Lab, Nudge Lebanon, work on psychological inoculation, combatting traffic violations as well as violent extremism and glass recycling. All wrapped up in a neat little packet you cannot miss! 

Finding Fadi:

In today's episode of the Questioning Behaviour Podcast, Sarah and Merle talk to Steve Shu about his decision to transition from his successful career in Behavioural Science consultancy to do a PhD (successfully!). We talk about the social and professional capital the PhD has afforded Steve, the non-overlaps between the work of a consultant and an academic, and life as a mature PhD student.

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Finding Steve:

twitter: https://twitter.com/steveshu

linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveshu

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Music: Derek Clegg “You’re the Dummy”

In this episode of the Questioning Behaviour Podcast, Sarah and Merle interview Joseph (Joe) Sweeney, the Director of the Alliance for Decision Education on their work in teaching kids behavioural science, and the benefits of it. 

The talk becomes a wild ride with mentions of the dot.com bubble, fantasy league football and Shakespeare! Can't miss that!

In this episode of the Questioning Behaviour Podcast, Sarah and Merle chat with Margaret as part of the "Early Career Behavioural Researcher" series. We discuss Margaret's research topic: children and finance, as well as her journey into the PhD, into a post-doc and her approach to dealing with uncertainty, which the academic world is riddled with!

In this episode of the QB pod, Sarah and Merle speak with Leigh Caldwell (Founding Partner of Irrational Agency and author of The Psychology of Price) about the existence of a System 3 within a dual systems model of thinking... What follows is an interesting discussion on the purpose and utilities of models and the evidence for an "imagination" system at the intersection of "emotion" and "rationality".

Helpful context:

Leigh's original blog post: https://www.irrationalagency.com/post/introducing-system-3-how-we-use-our-imagination-to-make-choices

Merle's response blog post: https://www.moneyonthemind.org/post/on-the-hunt-for-system-3-is-it-real

Finding Leigh:

Twitter (@leighblue): https://twitter.com/leighblue?lang=en

Linkedin: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/leighcaldwell

Irrational agency: https://www.irrationalagency.com/

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In this episode of the QB pod, Sarah and Merle chat with Victoria Valle Lara as part of our "Early Career Behavioural Researcher" series. We discuss life on the PhD and Victoria's experiences transitioning from the PhD into consultancy. Victoria is a senior behavioural economist at Allianz and completed her PhD in Economics in 2019 from HEC Lausanne, Switzerland.

Finding Victoria:

Linkedin: https://ch.linkedin.com/in/victoria-valle-lara

Worker Empowerment and Subjective Evaluation: On Building an Effective Conflict Culture - WORKING PAPER: https://www.nber.org/papers/w27857

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Music: Derek Clegg “You’re the Dummy” 

In this episode, Sarah and Merle speak with Saransh Sharma: a behavioural strategist at Final Mile consulting with 6+ years of experience in research and design. We discuss how behavioural science can be used to address some big problems (i.e. sanitation, HIV testing, etc.), the challenges of applying behavioural science without truly understanding the humans at the other end of the intervention, and how the WEIRD problem might be over-indexed...

Finding Saransh:

Go Nudge Yourself: https://www.gonudgeyourself.com/saranshsharma

Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/GoNudgeYourself/featured

Email: [email protected]

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saransh-sharma-behsci

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For this episode of Questioning Behaviour, Sarah and Merle interview Lenka Fiala. Lenka managed to transition from her PhD in Tilberg to an Assistant Professorship at Nova (Lisbon, Portugal). She explains her journey, the perks of knowing what you want early on, and tells us more about the research she is currently doing.

With loads of tips on time management and having hobbies!

Finding Lenka:

Website: http://www.lenkafiala.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/fialalenka?lang=en

NOVA staff page: https://www2.novasbe.unl.pt/en/faculty-research/faculty/faculty-detail/id/1187/lenka-fiala

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