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What's your beef? How 'carbon labels' can steer us towards environmentally friendly food choices

  • Written by: Adrian R. Camilleri, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, University of Technology Sydney
What's your beef? How 'carbon labels' can steer us towards environmentally friendly food choicesDelicious, nutritious... and emissions-intensive.Shutterstock.com

What did you have for dinner last night? Might you have made a different choice if you had a simple way to compare the environmental impacts of different foods?

Most people do not recognise the environmental impact of their food choices. Our research, published in Nature Climate Change...

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how gift-giving is inspired by beliefs-based altruism

  • Written by: Vera L. te Velde, Lecturer in Economics, The University of Queensland
how gift-giving is inspired by beliefs-based altruismNew research shows that when it comes to giving gifts, it really is the thought that counts.Shutterstock

’Tis the season for gift-giving and for the scrooges among us to complain about the wastefulness of gift-giving. Why give gifts, they say, when people know what they want better than anyone else? Others grudgingly admit that, since...

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why people follow what other people do

  • Written by: Campbell Pryor, PhD Student in Psychology, University of Melbourne
why people follow what other people doSome people just follow the social norm, whether it's right or not.Shutterstock/LENAIKA

Why do people tend to do what others do, prefer what others prefer, and choose what others choose?

Our study, published today in Nature Human Behaviour, shows that people tend to copy other people’s choices, even when they know that those people did not...

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  1. a history of St Nicholas, Santa and his helpers
  2. We need to talk about the actual threats to academic freedom on Australian campuses
  3. National Andrew Broad forced to quit frontbench amid 'sugar baby' allegation
  4. More mirage than good management, MYEFO fails to hit its own targets
  5. Shorten pledges $500 million for UNHCR in border protection policy
  6. how do people know what the weather will be?
  7. Morrison's decision to recognise West Jerusalem the latest bad move in a mess of his own making
  8. MYEFO reveals billions more in revenue, $9 billion in fresh election tax cuts
  9. Having a second child worsens parents' mental health: new research
  10. Children's health hit for six as industry fails to regulate alcohol ads
  11. How to have yourself a plastic-free Christmas
  12. how to keep your kids safe (and out of trouble) when you’re at work these holidays
  13. The great movie scenes: Back to the Future
  14. lessons in how towns remake challenging sites
  15. 2018 was a huge year in gaming
  16. Morrison goes a bridge too far to outsmart Shorten
  17. Labor promises a comprehensive overhaul of federal environmental framework
  18. NSW Governor David Hurley will be Australia's new Governor-General
  19. Shorten's subsidy plan to boost affordable housing
  20. Government hopes Jerusalem compromise will smooth Indonesian trade deal
  21. It's despair, not depression, that's responsible for Indigenous suicide
  22. Can the Big Bash League's backyard cricket bat flip truly be fair?
  23. Native cherries are a bit mysterious, and possibly inside-out
  24. Women don't speak up over workplace harassment because no one hears them if they do
  25. Some sharks have declined by 92% in the past half-century off Queensland's coast
  26. How to narrow the gap between Ardern's foreign policy aspirations and domestic debate
  27. It's not so easy to gain the true measure of things
  28. How people seeking asylum in Australia access higher education, and the enormous barriers they face
  29. Morrison’s health handout is bad policy (but might be good politics)
  30. back to Moore River and finding family
  31. Our cities fall short on sustainability, but planning innovations offer local solutions
  32. No, Joe, America should not be copying Australia's 'asset recycling' misdirection
  33. Monday's MYEFO will look good, but it will set the budget up for awful trouble down the track
  34. Unions likely to be more challenging for a Shorten government than boats
  35. one poses challenges for digital media; the other gives ABC and SBS a clean bill of health
  36. Many people have a hard time swallowing. Help them to 'eat, drink and be merry' this Christmas
  37. The proposed National Integrity Commission is a watered-down version of a federal ICAC
  38. In long-awaited response to Ruddock review, the government pushes hard on religious freedom
  39. Why cutting Australia's migrant intake would do more harm than good, at least for the next decade
  40. The suburbs are the spiritual home of overconsumption. But they also hold the key to a better future
  41. how to spot 2018's interplanetary bauble
  42. Government agrees to national anti-corruption body – with strict limits
  43. Morrison wants Religious Discrimination Act passed before election
  44. The Conversation Stakeholder Report 2018
  45. Can (and should) a doctor tell my biological relative my genetic results without my consent?
  46. How a proposed new bill would make it easier to strip Australian citizenship
  47. We can't know the future cost of climate change. Let's focus on the cost of avoiding it instead
  48. The small patch of bush over your back fence might be key to a species’ survival
  49. Cut the pension, boost Newstart. What our algorithm says is the best way to get value for our welfare dollars
  50. a little less Britpopulism, a little more Eurovision please

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