Understand behaviour before trying to change it.
Discover accessible perspectives on psychology and behavioural science and their application to learning, careers, organisations and everyday decision-making.
Behavioural science has been popular long enough to have collected a great deal of confident nonsense alongside its genuine findings, and sorting one from the other is most of the work. Here we write about what psychology actually establishes about learning, choosing, working and living together — with the strength of the evidence stated, and with the studies that failed to replicate named rather than quietly dropped.
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Interest, aptitude and motivation are three different things
They are routinely spoken of as one, and the confusion produces some of the worst career advice given to students.
People are poor at predicting what will suit them at work
Not because they lack self-knowledge, but because they are imagining the wrong thing.
The advice trap: why everyone gives the same three answers
The people who care most about a student are often the least able to widen their options, and there is a structural reason for it.
