Fixing the Wrong Thing: Psychosocial Hazards and What to Do About Them

Talks on Tuesdays: Real lectures in your favourite venues. 45-minute lecture & Q&A with Author Peter Bragge Talks on Tuesdays is a live event series bringing big ideas, real experts, and curious minds together - at your favourite local venues. Think thought-provoking lectures, audience questions, and post-talk mingling over drinks and dinner. This isn’t a uni lecture. It’s a social, intelligent night out.Come alone or with friends, leave with something to talk about. Event Schedule: 6.30pm Arrival & Doors Open 7pm Lecuture Starts 7.45pm Q&A 8pm Talk Concludes 8.30pm Event Closes. *Please arrive close to 6.30pm A La Carte menu and full bar available throughout the night - pay as you go. Your Topic: Countering Mis- and Disinformation Using Behavioural Science We've all been there. You're sitting around the dinner table when someone confidently shares something you know can't be true but no matter how many facts you throw at them, they won't budge. Misinformation (sharing false information unintentionally) and disinformation (deliberately spreading false information) have become some of the biggest challenges of the digital age. From health and politics to scams and social media, false information can spread faster than the truth and changing people's minds isn't as simple as presenting the evidence. In this talk, discover how behavioural science helps us understand why people believe misinformation, why facts alone often fail, and the surprisingly effective strategies that can help counter false beliefs without turning every conversation into an argument. Your Speaker: Peter Bragge is a Professor of evidence-based policy and practice; the science of connecting the best knowledge from research around the world to decision-makers in government, philanthropic and industry settings. He is part of BehaviourWorks Australia (BWA) which is the country’s oldest and largest applied behaviour change research unit and is based at Monash University’s Business School. Through these roles, Peter has a front row seat to the big challenges faced by decision-makers, especially those that involve changing human behaviour. He has authored over 250 academic publications and government / industry reports and was listed as one of Australia's top 250 researchers in the Australian Newspaper's 2024 Research Magazine.