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How Behavioural Economics Shapes Your Health Decisions

How Behavioural Economics Shapes Your Health Decisions

Update: 2025-03-11
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Everyday you make thousands of decisions that affect your health. This includes deciding what to eat, whether to exercise or not, and how much sleep you get. Whether you know or not, you're bombarded with information that influences your decisions. Behavioural economics is a theory that tries to explain why people may make different decisions in different contexts even if those decisions aren't always in their best interest. In this episode we discuss what behavioural economics is, how human laziness leads to decisions we don't want and how you can make use of behavioural economics to make healthy choices the easy choice.

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How Behavioural Economics Shapes Your Health Decisions

How Behavioural Economics Shapes Your Health Decisions

Dr. Scott Lear, Christine Henderson