📚 Join our first public event of 2025/26, where Dr Cahal Moran will discuss his new book "Why We’re Getting Poorer: A Realist’s Guide to the Economy and How We Can Fix it". 📅 Monday 13 October ⌚ 6.30-8pm 📍 In person and online 🔗 Learn more & secure your place: buff.ly/WOfanJM #Event #BookLaunch

🎉 We're proud to have been ranked number one in the UK for Psychology by The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026! LSE has also been named the top university overall. buff.ly/Gyjnn5f #PartofLSE #Psychology #LeagueTable

🌎 Most people haven’t heard of the Sixth Mass Extinction, yet they’re ready to act when they learn about it. New global study, led by @gangashreedhar.bsky.social, shows surprising public support for change. 📖 Learn more: www.lse.ac.uk/pbs/assets/d... @gsos-lse.bsky.social

🗣️ Speaking up can save lives — but only if others listen. Alyssa Pandolfo, Tom Reader & Alex Gillespie studied flightdeck transcripts before crashes and near-misses to reveal how safety listening behaviours shape outcomes. Read the #OpenAccess paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣 We are delighted to introduce two brilliant new colleagues: Dr Sandra Obradović joins us as Assistant Professor of Social Psychology, and Dr Yana Litovsky joins us as Assistant Professor of Behavioural Science. Welcome, Sandra and Yana! #PartofLSE

What can we learn from healthcare complaints? And how can AI help? In this editorial, Dr Tom Reader explores the growing importance of patient and family complaints in improving healthcare quality and safety, and the role that AI can play in the process. qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/earl...

Join us for #LSEEnvironmentWeek! The programme is now live: 🌱Keynote lectures on biodiversity, climate finance & fires 🌱Public lectures on COP30, climate finance & natural capital 🌱World-class academics & policymakers. 🔗https://www.lse-environment-week.com/environment-week-2025 #Sustainability

NEW✨ What did #COVID19 teach us about human behaviour & effective public policy in a #pandemic? Behavioural Economics & Policy for Pandemics @jcosta-font.bsky.social @lsehealthpolicy.bsky.social @mmglz.bsky.social @lsepbs.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org #Review @pauladepoju.bsky.social

📣 Come and join our amazing team! We're looking to recruit an inspirational Course Tutor in Psychology to join the team supporting our leading BSc in Psychological and Behavioural Science. ℹ️ The appointment is fixed term for two years. ⏱️ Closing deadline: 25 August 2025 🔗 buff.ly/1yHN187

Come and work with brilliant @lselibrary.bsky.social colleagues @rosiehigman.bsky.social @helskrw.bsky.social @niamhtumelty.bsky.social and me (in my #impact role) as our Wikimedian in Residence and Research Visibility Champion! Closing 17th Aug 2025 #OpenResearch jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

🥩 Why do we eat red meat, even when we don’t want to? Kate Laffan & Caroline Verfuerth explored the psychology behind red meat consumption among reducers & non-reducers. Using Goal Framing Theory, they found hedonic goals to be the strongest drivers, with gain goals also playing a major role.

🎙️ Prof Alex Gillespie gave the keynote address at the 2025 APA Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology conference. The event took place at Marquette University in Milwaukee. In his talk, Prof Gillespie discussed the role of qualitative research in the age of generative AI. #Keynote #AI

Honored to be back for LSE #behaviouralscience Alumni Conference, especially at graduation time! Excited to join great panel w/Zeina Afif (World Bank) & Anna Guerraggio (UNDP) & engage with past & current cohorts @lsepbs.bsky.social @mmglz.bsky.social @krpd.bsky.social @liamdelaney2025.bsky.social

Exciting new research by @benmtappin.bsky.social and colleagues ⬇️

"I will ensure that students engage with the latest techniques, from creating agentic AI for behavioural change to testing interventions on synthetic participants, in order to address some of the most pressing issues of our time" @krpd.bsky.social on his LSE AI & Education Fellowship buff.ly/WGzvwpo

🎤 Prof @liamdelaney2025.bsky.social gave the IAREP Kahneman Keynote Lecture 2025. During his inspiring talk, Prof Delaney explored the evolving role of economic psychology in shaping behavioural public policy. #Economics #Psychology #BehaviouralScience #Keynote #Kahneman #PublicPolicy

💥 New: What is the value of a park? Research from Christian Krekel @lsepbs.bsky.social @cep-lse.bsky.social finds that green spaces in urban areas produce wellbeing benefits that equate to around €119 per resident. blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

⏳ How do you feel about retirement? Relief? Fear? Freedom? Loss? A new #OpenAccess paper, co-authored by Alex Gillespie, explores how retirement is experienced & made sense of over time, using a 24-year diary written by a man (“Ernest”) as the primary data source.

📢 Secure your spot for the Africa Rising Symposium! We are partnering with EMY Africa again for the second Africa Rising Symposium, this year under the theme, "Beyond Potential: Africa’s Age of Performance". 🎟️ Early Bird tickets close on July 9! eshop.lse.ac.uk/product-cata...

🚨 New research: Why do staff respond defensively to complaints? Alex Gillespie & Tom Reader introduce the complaint handler's bind: staff are expected to respond to complaints & drive organisational learning, but lack the authority, resources or psychological safety to do so.

New blog post by ‪@alxchesterfield.bsky.social‬ 👇 #Research #OrganisationalCulture

👩‍💻 AI has the power to revolutionise education, but tech alone is not enough @michael.muthukrishna.com and several brilliant PBS students explore how AI can transform learning - but only if embedded in human-centred, culturally adaptive systems. #OpenAccess #Research #AI #Education #Teaching

🌎 An aspirational new approach to planetary futures This new paper, co-authored by @michael.muthukrishna.com & published in 'Nature', proposes an innovative new framework - the Nature Relationship Index (NRI) - for addressing planetary environmental challenges. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Chen-Ta Sung explains that the "recruitment of international students to maintain financial stability...risks reinforcing existing social inequalities. It privileges those who can afford elite global credentials" in this new blog post. blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

My latest visitor to @lsepbs.bsky.social was @marithalvorsen.bsky.social from @oslomet.bsky.social - here we are with @tillyflint.bsky.social who also came to London for our data session with @sylvainet.bsky.social @dirkvl.bsky.social et al at KCL on gender categories 🔎🧐💬 #EMCA

📚 Wellbeing and Policy: Evidence for Action 🌍 This new #OpenAccess book, edited by Marie Briguglio, Natalia Czap & Kate Laffan, reviews and integrates recent advances in wellbeing science and policy. Virtual book launch: 📅 Wednesday 2 July 🕔 4pm BST (London), 5pm CET ➡️ buff.ly/nzLwDFc

🚨 New Research - Cultural Capture Among Regulators: A Systematic Review @alxchesterfield.bsky.social‬, Tom Reader & Alex Gillespie explore 'cultural capture' - when regulators’ beliefs & behaviours align with those of the entities they oversee, sometimes with detrimental outcomes. #OpenAccess

👁️ This year's LSE Festival features several events with researchers from PBS: 🔴 LSE Festival Exhibition 🔴 Putting wellbeing and mental health at the heart of progress 🔴 Empowerment, safety and equity: children's visions of rights-respecting digital futures 🔴 Positive futures ➡️ buff.ly/PD6W7R5

📙 This week, we had the pleasure of hosting the launch of Professor Paul Dolan's latest book, 'Beliefism: how to stop hating the people we disagree with'. 🎥 Did you miss the event? Catch up now: buff.ly/Uengvi9 #Beliefism #Tolerance #BehaviouralScience

🎓 Our Executive MSc Behavioural Science students and alumni are incredibly bright, talented and inspiring individuals. Sign up for our next information session to learn how you can join this community and elevate your career: 📅 Weds 9 July 🕐 1-2pm 📍 Zoom 🔗 buff.ly/mcor774 ℹ lse.ac.uk/pbs/emsc

🎉 Warmest congratulations to our exceptional teachers who have received LSE Class Teacher Awards: ⭐ Adam Davidson ⭐ Sayeh Yousefi ⭐ Chen-Ta Sung (for the second year in a row!) ⭐ Edoardo Zulato Kudos also to Daniele Pollicino, Aishwarya Bellam and Audrey Van Hoecke for being Highly Commended!

🤳 Is banning social media really the best way to protect our kids? In a new post for the PBS blog, Alexandra Ross explores a more nuanced approach to social media regulation, offering parents a practical framework to evaluate different platforms and features. #SocialMediaBan #Regulation #Blog

🌋 Natural disasters across the world are being exacerbated by climate change, but what impact is that having on people and politics? Research by Kate Laffan, Nils Mallock & George Melios addressing this question will feature at this year's LSE Festival exhibition.

📜 New paper by @jsskeffington.bsky.social & co-authors summarises 3 decades of research into social dominance theory. It culminates in an argument for a “basic grammar of social power” that can illuminate processes of intergroup oppression at multiple levels. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

⏳ Only a week to go to this LSE event, where Prof Paul Dolan will discuss his new book 'Beliefism: How to stop hating the people we disagree with' ⬇️

Can the wisdom of the crowds predict #football results?🔮⚽ New research from @jenskoedmadsen.bsky.social @lsepbs.bsky.social‬ finds that asking a group of people to guess the outcomes of football matches can produce surprisingly accurate #predictions. @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social‬

🍃 Degrowth means rethinking prosperity beyond endless growth, and psychological and behavioural science has a key role to play in making degrowth actionable. Read more in this new @nathumbehav.nature.com paper by @krpd.bsky.social et al 👇 #Degrowth #PostGrowth www.nature.com/articles/s41...

⚽ New blog by @jenskoedmadsen.bsky.social ⬇️ #Football #WisdomOfTheCrowds #Research

LSE Festival is taking place 16-21 June, with global leaders, experts & innovators exploring the near & distant future & what a better world could look like. @michael.muthukrishna.com will join a discussion on 'Positive futures' on 21 June: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-F... Full schedule & tickets 👇

🔥 Christian Krekel et al estimated causal returns from hosting Olympics on health behaviours: ✔️ Increased physical activity in some people ❌BUT effects were temporary ✔️ Suggestive evidence for reduced alcohol & tobacco consumption ❌ Overall, events not cost-effective in promoting behaviour change

🟠 Many of us struggle to engage with those who hold different beliefs to us. Paul Dolan calls this Beliefism. He'll discuss his new book on Beliefism & its implications at this LSE event 👇 📅 Weds 11 June 🕰️ 6.30-8pm 📍 LSE campus & online 🔗 buff.ly/WmuzqDt 📙 buff.ly/9NrNUuc

The perceived independence of information sources has a powerful impact on polarisation New research from @jenskoedmadsen.bsky.social (@lsepbs.bsky.social) @davidyoung-psych.bsky.social & @leede-wit.bsky.social

💥 New blog! 👇

💫 It was fantastic to see so many of our alumni at #BX2025 in Abu Dhabi this week! 🤖 Highlights included a thought-provoking discussion between Dr Barbara Fasolo, Fatima Koaik & Rasha Attar on the cutting-edge use of synthetic participants in #BehaviouralScience research. buff.ly/lafXdju

There is a pressing need for a universal measure of children’s wellbeing, parallel to the WELLBY. This report discusses the issues inherent in measuring children’s wellbeing and investigate a policy-oriented solution: the C-WELLBY. By Isaac Parkes @lsepbs.bsky.social Read cep.lse.ac.uk/_NEW/p...

What are the possible worlds to come? Join the #LSEFestival to explore the threats and opportunities of the near and distant future, and what a better world could look like. 📆 16-21 June, LSE Campus

✔️ We recently wrapped up the last teaching session for our current Executive MSc Behavioural Science cohort. Attend our next online info session to learn more about this exceptional programme: 📅 Tues 20 May 🕐 1pm UK time 📍 Zoom 🔗 Sign up: buff.ly/HdEGvGP ℹ️ More about the EMSc: buff.ly/hBnrL68

🥗 Can social norms promote sustainable food consumption? Daniele Pollicino, @heidizamzow.bsky.social, Ganga Shreedhar, @mmglz.bsky.social, Huseyin Naci & Patricia Freitag reviewed evidence from 34 studies - check out what they found 👇 #Sustainability #PlantBased #Food #SocialNorms

As #AI and automation threaten to displace #jobs, could a universal basic income (UBI) be the way to protect against wage inequality, job insecurity and widespread job losses? @teresaalmeidacravo.bsky.social @lsepbs.bsky.social for @lsebr.bsky.social 👇

🚦 Stop, think, buy: How do nutritional labelling and price promotions impact consumer food choice? @krpd.bsky.social, @mmglz.bsky.social & co-authors explored this in a new paper ⤵️