Applied behavioural science & economics By Grant Burrow

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Zero Price Effect

A price drops to free. Demand doesn't rise a little. It jumps, even when the discount to get there was identical.

Goal Gradient Effect

A loyalty card arrives with two stamps already on it. You finish it faster, for the exact same reward.

Default Effect

Whatever's pre-selected gets chosen, far more often than the exact same option would if you had to pick it.

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I'm Grant Burrow. I've spent years running behavioural experiments inside real consumer products, the kind written up as Harvard Business School case studies, not just textbooks. I care about the applied part: not reciting theory, but showing you the sign, the screen, the menu, and exactly why it works.

Masters, Behavioural Economics

250+ experiments run

Case studies: Harvard Business School, Australian Financial Review