Research Themes
Behaviour research themes
Linking behaviour to global issues
Global problems such as climate change, poverty, mental health, and economic stability all depend on human behaviour. From how we adapt to change, to behavioural finance and science, explore the Behaviour Interdisciplinary Research Spotlight's key themes below.
ADAPTABILITY
In an ever-changing world, survival depends on the ability to adapt. This theme investigates our ability to adapt from different perspectives, ranging from the biological to the socio-cultural.
ART AND PERCEPTION
How can science explain artistic perception? We examine how psychology has informed artists’ perception, and how it can explain their visual experience and the pictures that express this.
BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE
The areas our researchers focus on are how the brain integrates information to evaluate experiences and risk; as well always striking a balance between stability and context sensitivity in judgment and choice.
BEHAVIOURAL ETHICS
The areas our researchers focus on are how the brain integrates information to evaluate experiences and risk; as well always striking a balance between stability and context sensitivity in judgment and choice.
BEHAVIOURAL FINANCE
Behavioural Finance looks to understand investment patterns and customer behaviours. Our researchers investigate trends in decisions investors make and the affect this has on stock markets.
BEHAVIOURAL HUMANITIES
There is a long tradition of combining humanities with the behavioural and social sciences. This theme to encourage researches to draw links between art, music, literature and the behavioural and social sciences.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Our researchers seek to understand people's perception of climate change and the affect this may have on how economic policies are developed.
COMPUTATIONAL BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE
Computational behavioural science is a research theme that focuses on the use of formal methods to study and understand human behaviour. This approach combines theories and methods from various fields, including psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and data science, to develop computational models of behaviour that are used to make predictions and generate insights about how people make decisions, learn, and interact with each other and their environment.
GAME THEORY
Game theory is essential to understand cooperation, coordination, competition between rivals, negotiation, conflict and many other situations. Our research combines theoretical and experimental tools to shed lights on many aspects of human behaviour that involve the strategic interaction between individuals or groups of individuals.
INEQUALITY
Behavioural researchers at Warwick have been actively engaged in seeking to understand inequality and injustice in society, whether this is in terms of income, opportunity or education, and to seek out the causes of inequality.
JUDGEMENT AND DECISION MAKING
Decision making is the result of cognitive and emotional processes, which determine the selection of a course of action among several alternatives.
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Located at the intersection of behavioural science and data science, our researchers use language data in novel ways to solve difficult problems and aid understanding.
NEUROSCIENCE
Work in this area embodies a perfect example of the GRP’s aim of bringing together key researchers in neuroscience, the life sciences and behavioural science.
POLICING
Centre of Policing Research (COPR) is an interdisciplinary centre uniting researchers from across the University. The Centre has built a police force network across England and Wales and offers a new approach to policing research.