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New ARC Centre behavioural economics to spur adoption of beneficial technology
QUT researchers will lead the $6.5 million ARC Training Centre for Behavioural Insights for Technology Adoption (BITA) that aims to accelerate Australians’ adoption of innovation technologies in health, agriculture and cybersecurity.
Health, agriculture and cybersecurity innovations offer greater productivity and sustainability
Collaboration between three universities and industry designed to speed take-up of new technologies
Shock of the new causes resistance to new technologies if benefits not well understood
Lead researcher QUT Professor Uwe Dulleck from the Centre for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology (BEST) and QUT’s School of Economics and Finance said the centre involves 15 QUT researchers from four faculties with six from the University of Western Australia and seven from the University of Queensland.
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May 21, 2021 at 1:00 pm
As behavioural scientists, we have a keen interest in how people make decisions, and particularly how these decisions incorporate a range of emotional, cognitive and psychological factors.
Choosing a life partner is arguably one of the most important decisions a person can make. And researchhas shown the most common way to do this these days is to go online.
John Gray’s famous 1992 book purports that men and women have innately different natures.
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As increasing numbers of people wade cautiously through the digital dating market, many still subscribe to stereotypical ideas about what men and women find attractive in a partner.
The anecdotal evidence has long suggested that women are more picky than men when choosing a partner, and now a scientific study has confirmed it.
University of Queensland researchers have found through a survey of 7,325 heterosexual users of dating websites aged 18 to 65 that while men and women were largely similar in the relative importance they put on each of nine attributes, females scrutinise each attribute more closely than males.
The only attribute in which there was a marked difference was income - women in the survey rated that as 29.3 out of 100 in importance, while men had it down at 19.6.
New data has revealed men and women generally look for the same qualities in a partner but women place are more choosy in each category (stock image)
Many women feel left out of breast reconstruction decision making, QUT research reveals
When women undergo surgical treatment for breast cancer, they often also have reconstructive surgery but new QUT research reveals many women feel left out of the decision making.
An interdisciplinary study from researchers in QUT s Centre for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology (BEST), Engineering Faculty, and School of Nursing, along with Dr Jeremy Hunt a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and Dr Tim Peltz from the University of New South Wales, on Knowledge, consultation time and choice in breast reconstruction has just been published in the
When women undergo surgical treatment for breast cancer, they often also have reconstructive surgery but new QUT research reveals many women feel left.