Program Lead: Professor Benno Torgler | Deputy Program Lead: Dr Ho Fai (Ben) Chan
Humans do not always behave the way we would expect, making decisions based on emotions, beliefs, biases, feelings, or habits. Our program applies behavioural economics to understand how humans cooperate, interact and comply.
- How do individuals behave in groups, social institutions and complex systems?
- What are the factors that affect compliance and cooperation in society?
- How does a better understanding of human cognitive architectures incentivise innovation and creativity?
- How does an empirical understanding of history create effective formal and informal institutions?
These are some of the research questions being investigated by the BEST Centre.
Research highlights
- Gender, sex, sexualities and human behaviour
- The science of science
- Behavioural sports economics
- Embedding cognitive architecture and artificial intelligence in behavioural economics
