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Departmental Seminar Series

Weekly seminar for the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ community

Recent topics of discussion include:

  • Influence of misinformation
  • Emotion and health
  • The future of work
  • The role of politics in online dating 
  • Why telling people to find their passion is bad advice
  • Climate justice perceptions around the world

About the seminar series

The Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ hosts a term-time seminar series, inviting researchers to present their latest findings.

The series is particularly beneficial for ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ students and early career researchers as it presents the opportunity to discuss and debate new findings in social psychology and behavioural science in a small, open setting.

How to join a seminar

The Departmental Seminar Series is open to all ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ staff and students. 

Seminars will normally take place on Wednesdays at 12-1pm during term time. This year the series will take place in a hybrid format - both in-person and online - unless specified.

All details, including speaker information, title and abstract, location and Zoom link will be sent via email each week from the PBS Events team pbs.events@lse.ac.uk. Please refer to this email for any changes to schedule and confirmation on the format. If you are a member of ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ staff or a student from outside the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, please email pbs.events@lse.ac.uk to join the mailing list.

Speakers 2024/25

Autumn Term

  • Wednesday 9 October 2024
    Dr Ilka Gleibs, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ 
    Title: 'A social identity approach to crisis leadership'
  • Wednesday 16 October 2024
    Dr Edoardo Zulato, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ 
    Title: 'Re-shaping pasts and futures to make sense of suspended present: The case of vegetative state patients'
  • Wednesday 23 October 2024
    Dr Sakshi Ghai, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
    Title: 'Rethinking sample diversity in research design'
  • Wednesday 30 October 2024
    , Israel Institute of Technology
    Title: 'I didn’t ask for ChatGPT’s help: How AI anticipatory help increases threat and decreases AI utilization'
  • Wednesday 13 November 2024
    , Harvard Business School 
    Title: 'The Buy-In Effect: When Increasing Initial Effort Motivates Behavioral Follow-Through'
  • Wednesday 20 November 2024
    , University of Leicester 
    Title: 'How Social Relationships Affect Group Cooperation: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Real Groups'
  • Wednesday 27 November 2024
    , University of Frankfurt
    Title: 'The new psychology of leadership: Evidence from the Global Identity Leadership Development (GILD) project and beyond'
  • Wednesday 4 December 2024
    , The Open University
  • Wednesday 11 December 2024
    , UCL 

Winter Term

  • Wednesday 22 January 2025
    , Imperial College London
  • Wednesday 29 January 2025
    , University of Copenhagen
  • Wednesday 5 February 2025
    , University of Hamburg
  • Wednesday 12 February 2025
    , University of Amsterdam
  • Wednesday 19 February 2025
    , Bocconi University
  • Wednesday 5 March 2025
    , University of Bern
  • Wednesday 12 March 2025
    , Institut Jean Nicod
  • Wednesday 19 March 2025
    , The Open University
  • Wednesday 26 March 2025
    , University of Edinburgh
  • Wednesday 2 April 2025
    Dr Ben Tappin, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

Past speakers

2023/24

Autumn Term

  • , King's College London
    Title: “Discounts Shift the Demand Curve: Evidence from Life-Saving Medications”
  • Dr George Melios, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
    Title: '"Sleeping with the enemy": The role of politics in online dating' 
  • , Western University
    Title: "Indigenous Reflections on Land-based Research Methodologies"
  • , University of Exeter Business School
    Title: "Why Telling People to Find Their Passion is Bad Advice"
  • Dr Alina Velias, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, PBS
    Title: "Measuring beliefs, knowledge, and preferences"
  • , University of California Santa Cruz
    Title: "Adolescents as Agents of Cultural Change and Continuity through their use of Social Media" 
  • , UCL
    Title: "The prevalence & consequences of the severity effect in probability communication"

Winter Term

  • , University of Cambridge
    Title: "The political psychology of false polarization and real polarization around the cultural axis"
  • , University of Oslo 
    Title: "The Social Transmission of Support for Authoritarian Rule: Evidence from Field and Survey Experiments"
  • , University of Nottingham
    Title: "Climate justice perceptions around the world"
  • , University of Zurich
    Title: "Does playing up one's humanity pay off for leaders?"
  • , Brunel University
    Title: "Atheism as a Testing Ground For Theories of Religion"
  • , University of Michigan
    Title: "Culturally Wise Interventions and Their Influence on Meaning Making and Behavior Across Diverse Cultural Contexts"
  • , University of Edinburgh
    Title: "Trying to understand how and why the public respond to safety guidance in emergencies – emphasis on the trying"
  • , ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
    Title: "Talking Therapy: Impacts of a Nationwide Mental Health Service in England" 
  • , University of Southampton
    Title: "To Be Truthful or to Be Wonderful? The Rocky Road to Self-Knowledge"

Spring Term Bonus Seminars

  • , Australian National University
    Title: "To Advance Gender Equality, Use the Evidence"
  • , Birzeit University 
    Title: "Portraying Palestine in the Social Psychology of Prejudice and Reconciliation - On Imposing Moral Guidelines on Oppressed Groups with Technical Concepts"

2022/23

  • Dr Georgios Melios, PBS, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
  • , Warwick University 
  • Professor Alex Gillespie, PBS, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ 
  • , Loughborough University
  • , UCL
  • , University of Essex
  • Dr Divyush Khemka, PBS, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
  • , UCL
  • Birkbeck University
  • , Barnard College, Columbia University
  • , University of Michigan
  • , University of Sussex
  • , University of Carleton

Previous years 


  • Vanessa Bohns, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Cornell University
  • Patrick Humphreys, Emeritus Professor, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
  • Margaret Samahita, Assistant Professor at the School of Economics, University College Dublin and a Research Fellow at the Geary Institute for Public Policy
  • Laura M. Giurge, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
  • June Gruber, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Ullrich Ecker, University of Western Australia
  • Moshe Hoffman, Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Lecturer at Harvard's Department of Economics. 
  • Renata Bongiorno, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter
  • Kristian Nielsen, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge
  • Umberto Castiello, University of Padova, Principle Investigator, NEMO Laboratory
  • Amanda Williams (IMD)
  • Gregg Sparkman, Princeton University
  • Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge
  • Shahzeen Attari, Indiana University Bloomington
  • Gordon Flett, York University Canada
  • Charless Efferson, University of Lausanne
  • Patrick Hoggard, UCL
  • Daniel Nettle, Newcastle University
  • Aiyana Willard, Brunel
  • Armin Falk, University of Bonn
  • Rex Wright, University of North Texas
  • Reto Odermatt, University of Basel
  • Thomas Graeber, Harvard University