Behaviour Change: An Editorial Statement

Editorial statement

We would like to welcome our readers to the twenty-eighth issue of 49 th Parallel and our second of 2012. In the last few months there have been some exciting developments at the journal and we hope that 49 th Parallel will continue to flourish in the future. We would like to welcome our new Articles Editor, Galateia Demetriou, to the 49 th Parallel team. Galateia is a second year doctoral rese...

Editorial Statement

With Volume 30, Issue 1, we introduce a new editorial board to Cognitive Science. All of the articles appearing in this issue, and probably the next few issues, will be ones that were handled by the board directed by Robert L. Goldstone, who served as editor for five years starting with Volume 25 in 2001. Rob did an incredible job injecting energy into the journal. Cognitive Science has a long ...

Behaviour Centred Design: towards an applied science of behaviour change

Behaviour change has become a hot topic. We describe a new approach, Behaviour Centred Design (BCD), which encompasses a theory of change, a suite of behavioural determinants and a programme design process. The theory of change is generic, assuming that successful interventions must create a cascade of effects via environments, through brains, to behaviour and hence to the desired impact, such ...

Neurobiology of behaviour. Editorial overview.

John H Byrne is currently the Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy and Director of the Neuroscience Research Center at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. He is also the Director of the WM Keck Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory at the UT Health Science Center. His research uses a combination of experimental and computational approa...

GSR Behaviour Change Knowledge Review Reference Report: An overview of behaviour change models and their uses