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Search. Is shopping in lower-cost supermarkets associated with less healthy purchases? . Customers of lower-cost supermarkets tend to purchase less fruit and veg and more unhealthy foods than customers of higher-cost supermarkets. However, our study

Search. population. Altering environment, stimuli and apparatus to change behaviour. The BHRU carried out a systematic scoping review of empirical evidence, and related conceptual material, to identify the effects of choice architecture

We also found an evidence gap regarding whether self-control influences interventions that focus on changing physical and economic environments.

change the environments  – physical, digital, economic and social – to make easier the healthier behaviour that most of us prefer but find difficult to achieve.

Search. Would taxing sweet snacks bring greater health benefits than taxing sugar-sweetened drinks? . In April 2018, the UK Government introduced a levy on sugary drink producers. Our study looks at whether increasing the price of sweet snacks would

Search. How do regular drinkers perceive wines and beers labelled as lower in strength? In a sample of 3,390 weekly wine and beer drinkers we assessed the impact of labelling wine and beer with different verbal descriptors denoting lower strength,

Search. Inequalities. Are more deprived households likely to buy supermarket promotions?. In our study which looked at price promotions in stores, we found that people were more likely to purchase less-healthy food items on promotion, rather than

Search. Taxing sweet snacks may bring even greater health benefits than taxing sugar-sweetened drinks. The UK Government levy on sugary drinks producers started in April 2018. This will potentially influence the cost of a large range of

This programme of work focuses on interventions in physical micro-environments (also known as nudging), as well as interventions in economic environments, with the aim of changing behaviour to improve population

Many fields need to come together – behavioural science, economics, political science, philosophy and economic history being just some of them.