Better training data – how behavioural science helps businesses ethically use AI and automation
Chapter 12: AI, Automation and Behavioural Science
Part Four: Boosting Productivity with Behavioural Science
Will a robot be stealing your job?
Psychological solutions will be needed to solve economic problems
Losing your job to a robot may not be a bad thing – if it’s a bad job
Losing work does not lead to bad decisions – but financial (and time) poverty does
What behavioural science tells us about how we view work
What is good work?
More money doesn’t transform bad work into good work
Bad work is bad for business
Creating good habits at work
Think about your environment
Normalising good behaviour and providing positive motivation
Chapter 15: Building Effective Teams Using Behavioural Science – Finding and Maintaining Success
Recruitment: the traditional home of psychology in business
Recruiting the right people for the right reasons
Assessing potential and predicting success
Test-tube recruiting
Training is not enough
Diversity is good for business
Generating psychological safety
Chapter 16: Behavioural Science in the Workplace
Part Five: Behavioural Science and Your Customers
The Oval Office and the Press Office
Telling stories in research
We are poor prediction machines
The role for traditional market research
Why are subconscious associations important?
How subconscious associations influence how we buy
We are predictably irrational at work as well as at home
Homer in the city
Focus on satisficers, not maximisers
Helping customers make easy, good enough decisions
Chapter 19: Gaining Advantageous Insights – Techniques and Tools to Better Understand Customers
Knowing if you will be noticed
Subconscious associations – knowing what people really think
Preventing post-rationalisation and improving predictions: observing behaviour
Chapter 20: Behavioural Science and Your Customers
Part Six: Behavioural Science for Better Marketing
Chapter 21: The Myth of the Rational Consumer – How Behavioural Science Explains How Marketing Works
Direct (behavioural) marketing
Focus on what you should measure, not what you can measure
The marketing science heretics
Chapter 22: Brands as Heuristics – What Behavioural Science Tells Us About Brands
Consistent brand assets
Be distinctive
The importance of context: costly signalling
Consistency, distinctiveness and costly signalling: ING Direct
Mental and physical availability
Precision targeting means targeting no one – or only fellow marketers
Focus on light buyers
Physical availability
Chapter 24: Behavioural Science for Better Marketing
Beating overconfidence – accepting what we don’t know
Innovation is driven by learning from mistakes
Science drives creativity – and vice versa
How to create a behavioural business