What is behavioural science?
Why do we carry high-interest debt even when we have the means to pay it off?
Why are there so many browser tabs open on your screen right now even though digital clutter is so stressful?
The answers to these questions – and so many other perplexities of human behaviour – are the domain of behavioural science.
The biology of behaviour
To understand why we do what we do, neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky looks at extreme context, examining actions on timescales from seconds to millions of years before they occurred. In this fascinating talk, he shares his cutting-edge research into the biology that drives our worst and best behaviours.
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