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
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"
- 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
- 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