In many areas, the delivery of the UN’s mandates is linked to changing human behaviour. Behavioural science refers to an evidence-based understanding of how people actually behave, make decisions and ...

The widespread use of benzodiazepines - better known as sleeping pills or anxiety medication - among the population has ...

A multi-year study of the reliability of published social & behavioral science research has found that only about half of published results are replicated by new studies.

Three experts discuss lessons learnt from a large-scale dissection of the reproducibility, analytical robustness and replicability of published results. Jelte M. Wicherts is in the Department of ...