Health Behaviour

Keeping our bodies healthy can be a case of mind over matter

• What motivates us to quit smoking?
• How does stress affect our ability to remember things?
• How do we form habits?
• Does regular bowel screening help detect colorectal cancer?
• How can maths anxiety impede understanding of numerical health risks?
• What are the emotional processes associated with trauma?
• What happens in the brain when we feel pain?

These and other questions are addressed as part of our health behaviour work using a variety of different approaches and leading edge methodologies. We also work closely with academics in related areas such as risk, judgement and decision making, and well-being.