What really changes behaviour? | Professor Susan Michie

When it comes to changing behaviour, what really works? How well? For how long? With who? Why? Professor Susan Michie describes how the Human Behaviour Change Project is trying to revolutionise evidence synthesis and use to answer the big questions about human choices.

The Human Behaviour Change Project is developing an artificial intelligence system to continually scan the world literature on behaviour change, extract key information, and use this to build and update a model of human behaviour.

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Professor Susan Michie is Professor of Health Psychology and Director of the Centre for
Behaviour Change at University College London. Her research focuses on behaviour change in relation to health and she has developed new methods for understanding the effectiveness of complex interventions. Her research covers population, organisational and individual level interventions, including digital interventions. Read more about her work

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This talk was given as part of the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Symposium: Behaviour change to improve health for all

This symposium was co-hosted by the US National Academy of Medicine and the UK Academy of Medical Sciences.

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[aquariusverus]

Proof that over education of those without wisdom is highly dangerous to society.

[Aspartame]

Wow, having a communist explain human nature is peak absurdity.

[lewis]

Head of Britain communist Party and now a senior advisor to Boris
Look who her ex husband is .

[annarichardson]

Ashamed my alma matter employs such a charlatan.

[anticorruption]

It doesn't help this woman being a full blown communist, can't believe Boris has this woman manipulating our behaviour. I was shocked looking up her background.

[susysamalex]

All learning starts with the end in mind. I came here to learn about behaviour change interventions, what works, what doesn’t and why, what I got was word custard and a description of the interactions within the data collection system.

[onlybugwit]

Basically, , all this boring rubbish she is spouting is unwanted, out of date and not fit for purpose for and by anyone to use for anything. So why the video??

[lesliesurette]

Came to see, "what really changes behavior?" But that's not what the video shows. Its possible they know because they seem to have done a tremendous amount of research and are very smart.

[Slarti]

Nothing like an academic to overcomplicate what is simply woo woo.

[KEYUNTISER]

Lotus Eaters sent me here. Is she really a Communist in Sage.

[derekdreery]

Can someone explain all the negative comments. It all seems pretty standard social science: research starts messy with different terms for the same thing and different ways of reporting results, then over time people try to standardize the language to make it easier to communicate and therefore make research happen faster.

[acmedsci]

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