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Department of Psychological
and Behavioural Science
(PBS)

3rd Floor
Queens House,
55/56 Lincoln's Inn Fields,
London WC2A 3LJ

Champa Heidbrink
Department Manager

Jacqueline Crane
Service Delivery Manager - MSc Programmes:
Department contact for issues relating directly to MSc study
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7995

Terri-Ann Fairclough
PhD Programme and Communication Administrator:
Department contact for issues relating directly to PhD study
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7700

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As from 1 July 2016, the Department of Social Psychology expanded to become the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science (PBS).

The name change will showcase the Department’s new BSc programme, the BSc in Psychological and Behavioural Science (to be launched in 18/19), with British Psychology Society Accreditation.

It will also provide an appropriate home for our existing MSc programmes in Social and Cultural Psychology; the Psychology of Economic Life; Social and Public Communication; and Organisational and Social Psychology, as well as our thriving PhD programme.

The expanded department will also become a hub for the 50+ psychological and behavioural researchers in other disciplines across the LSE as well as a cutting-edge centre of expertise in its own right.

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Warmest of welcomes to our incoming MSc student cohort. This will be a year not only for intellectual excitement, exploration and growth, but also one that offers opportunities for you to make a global network of new friends and contacts that will scaffold you - both personally and professionally - in the years ahead. You join us in a particularly exciting year. In addition to continuing our world-leading work in the theory and practice of social psychology, our department has expanded to include a new focus on psychological and behavioural science. We hope that this additional focus will further enrich your forward journey and we look forward to your participation in the expanded set of debates and projects it will generate.

For more, please link to the programme page

Catherine Campbell - Department Head

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Warm congratulations to Celestin Okoroji, in the first year of our PhD programme, for winning the POPULAR PRIZE at the LSE Research Festival.
Celestin Okoroji, Department of PBS Poster - The Nadir of British Life: social representations of the unemployed. See more

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Ben Voyer gave a Keynote in SwitzerlandIt was for the 13th Swiss Congress for Health Economics.http://www.skgg.ch

See the attached programme

Professor Sandra Jovchelovitch speaks at the Panel of the International Coalition of Inclusive and Sustainable Cities at the UN Habitat III Conference, taking place in Quito, Ecuador 17-21 October 2016. More information

Chris Tennant recently did a talk about "Autonomous vehicles: negotiating a place on the road" at the London Transport Museum. View his newspaper clippings

Marina Everri and her colleagues of the University of Parma, Italy, have published two papers about the relation between family functioning and adolescents’ development in the Journal of Child and Family Studies. It seems that adolescents demand more engagement, emotional connectedness, and containment from their parents. The results of these studies also provide hints for professionals working with children and families.

The role of Rigidity in adaptive and maladaptive families assessed by FACES IV: The points of view of adolescents. Read abstract

Family functioning, parental monitoring and adolescent familiar responsibility in middle and late adolescence. Read abstract

Congratulations to Michael Muthukrishna on a very successful piece in the LSE business review - co written with one of the MSc students (Katie Dowbiggin)

Dr Alex Gillespie will be presenting at the BBC Future World Changing Ideas Summit in Sydney on 15th November 2016

Dr Ilka Gleibs had an interview on BBC World, 15.06.2016. View the interview

Professor Martin Bauer made a personal submission to the recent House of Commons Science and Technology Committee enquiry o of Science Communication on trends in British Science Culture since 1990. The short report of 3000 words offers an evidential opinion from work in progress in Project MACAS [mapping the cultural authority of science]. Read more | report

Professor Sandra Jovchelovitch and a team of academics and students travelled to Brazil for the project ‘Resilience and Porosity of City Borders: A Psychosocial investigation in three Brazilian cities

Professor Martin Bauer produced a short report at his lecture in Zurich,The title is: why do technologies fail [report is in German] Read more

Dr Martha Entradas was awarded a European Young Researchers’ Award (EYRA). Read more

Dr Akile Ahmet launched her Race in the Academy research section. Read more

Dr Tom Reader and Dr Alex Gillespie have a paper on the following:

Complaints data is untapped resource for NHS improvement

The NHS can better utilise the vast potential of patient complaint data, according to a new study from the Department of Social Psychology. Read more

Dr Tom Reader won best presentation at the 9th Behavioural Sciences Applied to Surgery and Acute Care meeting (held in Bonn). He reported on the Healthcare Complaints Analysis Tool (HCAT). This is a tool developed with Dr Alex Gillespie in order to help hospitals learn from complaints about unsafe and poor quality care.

PBS article warns against incorrect use of Psychological terms Read more

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Research by Corti & Gillespie featured in the BBC, Ars Technica, Discovery Magazine, FutureProof, and the Huffington Post.

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Dr Ben Voyer’s work has recently been recognised by the Royal Society for the Encouragement of A rts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) with the award of a fellowship. Since its foundation in 1754, the RSA aims at addressing some of society's greatest challenges by triggering original thinking and implementing novel solutions. Dr Voyer’s research in organisational psychology aims at improving teamwork by understanding the psychological consequences of power on the behaviours of leaders and followers.

Sandra Jovchelovitch delivered a keynote address to the 17th Brazilian congress of Sociology. Read more

Ten OSP alumni have just launched a new e-book called From Millennials With Love. Read more

HCD Doctoral candidate Apurv Chauhan has been selected to participate in a residential writing retreat organised by the Qualitative Health Research Writing Group Network. Apurv’s doctoral thesis is supervised by Professor Catherine Campbell.

This year we are celebrating all things LSE history because October 2015 marks the 120^th anniversary of the very first students arriving at LSE. Read more

Mihoko Yotsui (HCD student, 2012-13) has published her MSc Thesis in the journal Ageing and Society, which focuses on the role of social participation by the elderly in disaster settings. Read more

PBS blog got mentioned on the website of Time Magazine and Aspen Institute. How can the theory and practice of social psychology enhance individual, collective and organisational well-being and effectiveness in specific social settings? We discuss this and other issues on our PBS blog

Research by Corti & Gillespie replicating and extending Stanley Milgram’s research on cyranoids, recently published in the Journal of Social Psychology has been reported in Discovery Magazine and Wired Magazine. Read more

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Can Power Change how we connect with others?

Ben Voyer in his research studies how power changes the way we see ourselves in relation to others. Read more

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Dr Lucia Garcia was invited to attend as a judge and to submit 3 of our OSP research dissertations to the IndigoGold new research in workplace psychology awards, Sarah Latham (OSP Msc students dissertations) came second in the final shortlist. Read more

Climate Change is a topic of growing interest to PBS. PhD graduate Sharon Jackson is both a climate change researcher and activist, and was recently involved in organising a march in Tanzania. Read more

Research published by Basso F., Robert-Demontrond Ph., Hayek-Lanthois M., Anton J.-L., Nazarian B., Roth M. & Oullier O. (2014), Why people drink shampoo? Food Imitating Products are fooling brains and endangering people for marketing purposes, PLoS ONE 9(9): e100368. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0100368. Read more

To be added to our Seminar Listing group please email Terri-Ann Fairclough

For all students and Alumni. Please click here to add your details to the students page. Read about our history blog.

Undergraduates interested in taking the PS102 option course can find out more in a 3 minute video here or on the course page here

Larry Aber held a talk about Improving children’s learning and development in conflict-affected countries. PBS Research Seminar, View Video or listen to Audio of this event. View page

Upcoming events

30th November 2016 - Dr Chris Tennant, LSE and Dr Sally Stares, City University, PUS Seminar, Driverless cars and the public: collision or collaboration? 16.15pm -18.00pm,Room QUE 3.28. Read more

1st December 2016 - Oliver Scott Curry - Research Seminar, Is it good to cooperate? Testing the theory of morality-as-cooperation in 60 societies, QUE3.28 from 12.30pm -14:00pm. Read abstract

8th December - David Rand dicusses Cooperation is central to successful human societies. But why are people willing to incur the individual costs involved in cooperating? Held at the Hong Kong Theatre, LSE.6.30-pm. #LSERand. Info: events@lse.ac.uk

Previous events

24th November 2016 - Keith Jensen - Research Seminar, The Hyper-cooperative and Hyper-competitive Primate, QUE 3.28 from 12.30pm -14:00pm. Read abstract

17th November 2016 - Liam Delaney - Research Seminar, Self-control, present bias, and well-being: evidence from day reconstruction studies Read abstract

10th November 2016 - Cristina Moya - Research Seminar, The evolution and ontogeny of etho-linguistic reasoning

3rd November 2016 - Baroness Susan Greenfield discusses, A Day in the Life of the Brain: the neuroscience of consciousness from dawn 'til dusk. View podcast

13th October 2016 - A one day symposium was held in partnership with http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty/J._Lawrence_Aber Goldsmiths Universiry of London for a photovoice exhibition (as part of the Race in the Academy research project). View Photovoice video

12th October 2016 - Chris Tennant did a talk on Autonomous vehicles: negotiating a place on the road”

At the London Transport Museum. The event is titled ‘The future of mobility’ and is hosted by Goodyear Tyres.

We are presenting the results of our research project which particularly focusses on how existing drivers will respond to the emergence of autonomous vehicles on the road.

We investigate how social psychological processes shape political, economic, cultural and organisational life. We have a vibrant research culture which draws together different traditions of theory and research in PBS. Read more

Mind in Society		Social Interaction
Cognition and Culture (Franks, Gillespie) Embodied Cognition (Basso) Social Artefacts and Technology (Bauer, Gaskell, Lahlou) Social Identities (Campbell,Gleibs,Howarth) Social Representations (Bauer, Howarth, Jovchelovitch, Lahlou) Public Understanding of Science and Risk Perception(Bauer, Reader, Gaskell		Agency, Power and Inequality (Campbell, Howarth, Jovchelovitch) Communication and Intersubjectivity (Franks, Gillespie, Reader) Community Development (Campbell, Howarth,Jovchelovitch) Intercultural Relations (Howarth) Group Processes (Garcia, Gleibs, Reader) Race in the Academy (Ahmet, Howarth)

Organisational cultures		Interdisciplinary Research Groups
Economic life (Basso, Lahlou) Installations and activity (Lahlou) Knowledge processes (Garcia) Leadership and change (Bauer, Garcia, Gleibs, Reader) Safety and risk cultures (Gillespie, Reader)		Favelas@lse Health, Community and Development Intercultural Research Group International Cognition and Culture Institute Inter-Personal and Organisational Communication (IPOC) Mapping the Cultural Authority of Science (MACAS) Organisational Research Group Underground Sociabilities

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At PBS we offer four MSc programmes:

MSc Organisational and Social Psychology

MSc Social and Cultural Psychology

MSc Psychology of Economic Life

MSc Social and Public Communication

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