“In the Anthropocene, a time when the fate of the planet is determined largely by humans, it
has become difficult to differentiate between nature and culture. There is hardly any nature …

Through an analysis of Facebook design blogs, funded social psychology and human–
computer interaction (HCI) research, this article will demonstrate how Facebook “scripts” a …

In Gestures of Concern Chris Ingraham shows that while gestures such as sending a “Get
Well” card may not be instrumentally effective, they do exert an intrinsically affective force on …

Behavioural public policy is predominantly based on insights from behavioural economics
and psychology in order to 'nudge'people to act in line with specific aims and to overcome …

Fitness trackers or 'wearables' are being used by an ever-increasing number of exercisers to
self-monitor their health, wellbeing and fitness. While acknowledging that many users find …

To construct their theoretical framework, the US institutionalist authors, Thorstein Veblen and
John Commons, drew on the conception of habit which had been developed by Charles …

This special feature concerns understanding human‐nature relations through the lens of
values to comprehend how values of the natural world connect with wider processes of …

A behavioural public policy movement has flourished within the global policy realm. While
this movement has been deemed interdisciplinary, incorporating behavioural science …

With the rise of new digital, smart and algorithmic technologies, it is claimed,'the human'is
being fundamentally re-mediated. For some, this is problematic: digitally colonised by …

Spanning the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, this book investigates how home is
imagined, staged and experienced in western culture. Questions about meanings of …