Canadian researchers have found “weak but significant” associations between screen time and behavioural problems such as aggression, as well as emotional and mood disturbances in children after analysing 87 studies published from 1960 to 2021. The team analysed 87 eligible studies from 595 articles, totalling over 159,000 participants aged 12 or younger and found that there…

Behavioural science has been used inappropriately during the CCP virus pandemic to scare the public into complying with the rules, a former leading member of the government’s controversial “Nudge Unit” said. Simon Ruda, a co-founder of the Behavioural Insights Team (BI)—the UK government’s original nudge unit before its privatisation and global expansion—questioned if behaviour science has inadvertently been…