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LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social · 1d

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LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social · 16d

📚 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

Why we're getting poorer | Cahal Moran

6.30pm Mon 13 Oct | Carolina Alves, Antonia Jennings, Cahal Moran | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 12d

welcome to LSE. @lselibrary.bsky.social free bags with maps. from Booth’s Inquiry into Life & Labour People in London (1886–1903),
digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...
booth.lse.ac.uk
#lsefreshers
@lseinequalities.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @lsesu.bsky.social

colour coding images for booth maps yellow is wealthy
red well to do

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LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social · 12d

🦫 Dr Miriam Tresh (Deputy Head of Department) and Champa Heidbrink (Department Manager) bumped into Felix the Beaver on campus the other day!

#PartofLSE #Felix #Welcome2025

Dr Miriam Tresh, Felix the Beaver and Champa Heidbrink

LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social · 16d

📚 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

Why we're getting poorer | Cahal Moran

6.30pm Mon 13 Oct | Carolina Alves, Antonia Jennings, Cahal Moran | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

buff.ly

LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social · 19d

🎉 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.

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#PartofLSE #Psychology #LeagueTable

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LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social · 20d

🌎 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

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LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social · 23d

🗣️ 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/...

Safety Listening in High‐Risk Situations: A Qualitative Analysis of Responses to Safety Voice in Aviation

Safety listening—responses to voice acts aimed at preventing harm—can avert organizational failures like airplane crashes. Research often focuses on attitudes and perceptions of listening using self-...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social · 27d

📣 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

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LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social · 27d

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...

Learning from healthcare complaints: challenges and opportunities

The number of complaints received by healthcare organisations from patients and families is on an upward trajectory.1 For example, in 2023–2024, the NHS in England received 241 922 complaints,2 an inc...

qualitysafety.bmj.com

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International Growth Centre @theigc.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

LSE Environment Week 2025 — LSE Environment Week

The Economics of Environment and Energy Programme (EEE), International Growth Centre (IGC) and Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID) within the LSE Economics Department are convening the…

www.lse-environment-week.com

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LSE Review of Books @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · Aug 26

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

Preparing for the next pandemic – behavioural policy insights from COVID-19 - LSE Review of Books

In Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics, editors Joan Costa-Font & Matteo M. Galizzi bring together global behavioural policy insights from COVID-19.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social · Aug 6

📣 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

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · Jul 29

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/...

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LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social · Jul 28

🥩 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.

Exploring when reducers and non-reducers eat red meat – a qualitative analysis of goals and situations

Understanding people's experiences of red meat consumption can help inform efforts to encourage sustainable dietary shifts. In this paper, we analyse …

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LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social · Jul 28

🎙️ 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

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Cortney Price @cortneyprice.bsky.social · Jul 25

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

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LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social · Jul 21

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

Kobi Hackenburg @kobihackenburg.bsky.social · Jul 21

Today (w/ @ox.ac.uk @stanford @MIT @LSE) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19  LLMs, 707 political issues.

We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more!

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LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social · Jul 18

"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
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LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social · Jul 16

🎤 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

Liam Delaney – Positioning Economic Psychology in Behavioral Public Policy | IAREP 2025

YouTube video by IAREP

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LSE EUROPP Blog @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social · Jul 10

💥 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...

What is the value of a park? - EUROPP

Wellbeing data suggests the monetary value of a park to residents of urban areas can be put at around €119 per resident, in any given year.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social · Jul 8

⏳ 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.

Beyond narratives of decline versus success: retirement through the lens of a diary - European Journal of Psychology of Education

Retirement is rarely conceptualised in terms of learning and development. However, as the end of professional activity approaches, many people begin to reflect deeply on the past, present, and future ...

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Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa @africaatlse.bsky.social · Jul 7

📢 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...

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LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social · Jul 7

🚨 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.

The complaint handler’s bind: How organisational constraints lead to defensive responses to criticism

Defensiveness is often implicated in systemic organisational failures to explain why early warning signs were ignored and organisational resilience was compromised. But how does an organisation…

journals.plos.org

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LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social · Jul 7

New blog post by ‪@alxchesterfield.bsky.social‬ 👇

#Research #OrganisationalCulture

LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · Jul 7

When regulators work closely with industries, they risk unconsciously adopting the worldview, beliefs and priorities of the very industries they're supposed to oversee.

@lsepbs.bsky.social

Cultural capture threatens regulatory independence - LSE Business Review

When regulators work closely with industries, they risk unconsciously adopting the worldview, beliefs and priorities of the very industries they're supposed to oversee.

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LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social · Jul 4

👩‍💻 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

AI Can Revolutionise Education but Technology Is Not Enough: Human Development Meets Cultural Evolution

Artificial Intelligence could dramatically boost educational outcomes and close gaps – but only if policymakers take a human-centred, systems-level approach to AI integration. Cultural evolution, t...

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