How this fraudster sold fake Scottish tea to the rich & famous
In 2015, the media became obsessed with one man’s attempts to grow tea in the Scottish Highlands. The BBC profiled him on the One Show. Radio reporters flocked to interview him. Even the Chinese nat...
23 Mars 36min
Will Guidara: “Here’s how I built the world’s #1 restaurant"
Will Guidara is the co-founder and restaurateur behind the world’s best restaurant. But Will’s not a standard restaurateur. He didn’t just focus on creating the best food. He used psychology and b...
16 Mars 35min
Can this “magic” number change your behaviour?
Do nine-ending prices really work? Will £9.99 sell more than £10.00? Can it be used for high-quality products? What about hedonic products? Can it be used on speed limits? For years this debate ha...
9 Mars 25min
Are we all just status-seeking monkeys?
Today on Nudge, Professor Katie Slocombe shares how chimpanzees handle power, build alliances, and jostle for status in their troop. It’s the first time on Nudge that we’ve looked at the primate root...
2 Mars 30min
“These two words increased sales by 18%.” Robert Cialdini
16 years ago a chain of Chinese restaurants wanted to increase sales without changing the price. They didn’t change the product. The service. The chef. The food. Instead, they changed two wo...
23 Feb 24min
When you can’t stop seeing the thing you’ve just discovered
I watched Home Alone and suddenly started hearing the theme tune everywhere. I thought I was going insane. But Tom Bowden-Green and Luan Wise explained that I actually fell for a fairly well-known...
16 Feb 26min
The Psych-Trick Behind One of the Decade’s Fastest Growing Orgs
HelloFresh is one of the fastest-growing companies of the past 20 years. And it’s down to one, relatively simple behavioural science tactic. --- Subscribe to the Nudge Vaults: https://www.nudgepo...
9 Feb 26min
Real-world examples of cognitive biases
Most of us are completely oblivious to the cognitive biases that dictate how we live our lives. Today, with Tom Bowden-Green and Luan Wise, we cover seven cognitive biases that all of us fall for. ...
2 Feb 24min
