Perspectives in Behavioural Sciences

Hosted by Leverhulme Trust & Women in Science GRP

-Are complex policy implementations the strategy forward? Or should we focus on simple interventions that deal with single effects?

-How to engage people in pre-contemplation stage, particularly with regards to health behaviour change.

-What are the limitations of the approaches gleaned from this literature? Are there other approaches that could be useful where nudging etc. fails?

-How behavioural science is used in industry? Is it exploited?

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• 10:15 Anne Scheel A meta-analytical perspective on scientific reproducibility
• 11:15 Magda Osman Nudge: An example of the psychological limits of influence
• 12:15 Career trajectories and obstacles: Part I
• 12:45 Lunch
• 13:45 Séverine Toussaert Connecting commitment to self-control problems: evidence from a weight loss challenge
• 14:45 Jana Jarecki Preferential Choices based on Similarity Comparisons
• 15:45 Early career research obstacles: Part II
• 16:15 Closing remarks