We are very fortunate to welcome three exceptional new Assistant Professors to our department: DeemaAwadPhD, Sakshi Ghai & Ben Tappin. Welcome to LSE and PBS! We look forward to working with you🤩. #partoflse #lsepbs

🌻How can thinking about the similarities and differences between plants & humans can help us live a better life? In a new series for Psychology Today, Saadi Lahlou writes about why people do what they do & how we can encourage change. #psychology #blog psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/chan…

Congratulations Atrina Oraee! 🎉

In an article for LSE Impact Blog, Jens Koed Madsen & Lee de-Wit argue that starting from an assumption that humans are fundamentally reasonable allows for the development of more effective & contextually relevant theories & interventions. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

We look forward to hosting 2 fantastic LSE Events this autumn: 🤖 AI and the future of behavioural science - 8 Oct: lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/10… 👩‍🔧 Wicked problems: how to engineer a better world - 22 Oct: lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/10… #BehaviouralScience #AI #Psychology

Join the LSE Africa Summit 2025 Organising Committee! Are you passionate about Africa and eager to be part of shaping meaningful discussions with a global impact? Applications are now open for the LSE Africa Summit 2025! To apply email us at [email protected]

Stories don’t just entertain us, they define how we see the world and how we can change it. Dima Sayess, Ilona Sediha & Prof Paul Dolan explore for LSE Business Review how policymakers can harness the power of storytelling to address today’s big issues. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview…

Our Special Issue on "Conversation analysis and conversational technologies: Finding the common ground between academia and industry" is published! Here's a mega thread of its 22 papers and industry commentaries, plus info about November's *launch webinar!* #EMCA #AI #CxD 1/

📢 New research: Leveraging the link between pro-environmental behaviour and well-being to encourage sustainable lifestyle shifts by Michael Prinzing & Kate Laffan 🗞️ Read the paper: nature.com/articles/s4416… #OpenAccess #Research #Sustainability #BehaviouralScience

💡🌍 How can #BeSci drive major change in the Global South? Find out at our virtual event during the United Nations #SummitOfTheFuture! We will be joined by colleagues from the UN, member states & more Friday, Sept 20, 9 AM ET Register here! 👉 sofscalingbesci.org

Do national innovation projects shape citizens’ public health behaviours? A recent paper, co-authored by Martin Bauer, found no significant impact of national framing on vaccine willingness, even among those with nationalist or science-sceptical views journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08…

#AI is transforming behavioural science 🤖 In this LSE Psychological & Behavioural Science event, Alex Chesterfield, Elisabeth Costa, Oliver Hauser, Dario Krpan, Professor Susan Michie, Robert West & Liam Delaney will discuss AI's impact on #BehaviouralScience and more. More info 👇 lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/10…

🔬Multi-Resolution Design: Using Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses to Recursively Zoom in and out of the Same Dataset This new #OpenAccess paper, co-authored by Prof Alex Gillespie, integrates big qualitative data analysis with qualitative analysis. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15…

We have been named University of the Year 2025 and ranked as the top university in the UK by The Times and The Sunday Times! 🥳 🥳 🥳 Prof Larry Kramer, LSE President and Vice Chancellor, welcomed the announcement: "This is a tribute to our outstanding faculty and students, and global community."

📚 New book: Why People Do What They Do: And How to Get Them to Change by Saadi Lahlou is out today! In the book, Prof Lahlou shows that people’s behaviour is predictable & shaped by ‘installations’ combining 3 sets of factors. politybooks.com/bookdetail?boo…

To combat misinformation effectively, people must see it is a problem and trust sources countering it writes Jens Koed Madsen of LSE Psychological & Behavioural Science wp.me/p3I2YF-eiH

Hono(u)red to be speaking at LSE in December on Campus Free Speech. LSE Events LSE Department of Economics LSE Behavioural LSE Psychological & Behavioural Science Adam Oliver Laura Gilbert Nicholas Stern David Halpern CBE lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/12…

🤖 AI and the future of #behaviouralscience Join us for this LSE Events where speakers associated with pioneering work on AI in relation to beh sci will discuss their views on how AI will change the field. 📅 Tues 8 Oct ⌚ 6.30-8pm 🔗 lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/10… #BSAI

📈 Interested in #wellbeing #research & #policy? Check out the Centre for Economic Performance Wellbeing Seminars, which take place Thursdays 4-5pm during term time. 🗣️See upcoming speakers and register⬇️ cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/We…