Departmental Seminar Series

Autumn Term

• Dr Ilka Gleibs, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, LSE 
  Title: 'A social identity approach to crisis leadership'
• Dr Edoardo Zulato, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, LSE 
  Title: 'Re-shaping pasts and futures to make sense of suspended present: The case of vegetative state patients'
• Dr Sakshi Ghai, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, LSE
  Title: 'Rethinking sample diversity in research design'
• Dr Dana Harari, Israel Institute of Technology
  Title: 'I didn’t ask for ChatGPT’s help: How AI anticipatory help increases threat and decreases AI utilization'
• Dr Ashley Whillans, Harvard Business School 
  Title: 'The Buy-In Effect: When Increasing Initial Effort Motivates Behavioral Follow-Through'
• Professor Fabio Tufano, University of Leicester 
  Title: 'How Social Relationships Affect Group Cooperation: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Real Groups'
• Professor Dr Rolf van Dick, University of Frankfurt
  Title: 'The new psychology of leadership: Evidence from the Global Identity Leadership Development (GILD) project and beyond'
• Dr David Kaposi, The Open University
  Title: 'Why did they obey? The presence and absence tension in Stanley Milgram’s “Obedience to authority” experiments'
• Dr Joshua Becker, UCL 
  Title: 'Collective Intelligence is Negotiation: Group Decisions Amidst Disagreement'

Winter Term

• Dr Sanaz Talaifar, Imperial College London
  Title: 'Political Identity in Digital Environments'
• Dr Seamus Power, University of Copenhagen
  Title: 'World-Making: Field social psychology and processes of social change'
• Dr Cameron Brick, University of Amsterdam
  Title: 'Climate actions from individual to collective'
• Dr Anna Schulze Tilling, Bocconi University
  Title: 'Tastes better than expected: Post-intervention effects of a vegetarian month in the student canteen'
• Professor Dr Michele Bernasconi, University of Bern
  Title: 'Tax evasion: models of behaviour, evidence, contrasting policies'
• Dr Hugo Mercier, Institut Jean Nicod
  Title: 'Why do people trust science?'
• Professor Eleni Andreouli, The Open University
  Title: "Social Psychology of citizenship"
• Professor Juliane Degner, Hamburg University
  Title: "The Instant Judgment: Exploring Spontaneous Trait Inferences and Their Implications"

Spring Term bonus seminar

• Professor Jana Gallus, UCLA Anderson School of Management
  Title: 'Incentives and the Social Fabric of Organizations'

Autumn Term

• Dr Bouke Klein Teeselink, King's College London
  Title: "Discounts Shift the Demand Curve: Evidence from Life-Saving Medications"
• Dr George Melios, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, LSE
  Title: '"Sleeping with the enemy": The role of politics in online dating'
• Dr Nicole Redvers, Western University
  Title: "Indigenous Reflections on Land-based Research Methodologies"
• Professor Paul O’Keefe, 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"
• Dr Adriana Monago, University of California Santa Cruz
  Title: "Adolescents as Agents of Cultural Change and Continuity through their use of Social Media"
• Dr Adam Harris, UCL
  Title: "The prevalence & consequences of the severity effect in probability communication"

Winter Term

• Dr Lee de Wit, University of Cambridge
  Title: "The political psychology of false polarization and real polarization around the cultural axis"
• Dr Andreas Kotsadam, University of Oslo
  Title: "The Social Transmission of Support for Authoritarian Rule: Evidence from Field and Survey Experiments"
• Dr Charles Ogunbode, University of Nottingham
  Title: "Climate justice perceptions around the world"
• Dr Lauren Howe, University of Zurich
  Title: "Does playing up one's humanity pay off for leaders?"
• Dr Will M Gervais, Brunel University
  Title: "Atheism as a Testing Ground For Theories of Religion"
• Dr Catherine Thomas, University of Michigan
  Title: "Culturally Wise Interventions and Their Influence on Meaning Making and Behavior Across Diverse Cultural Contexts"
• Dr Anne Templeton, University of Edinburgh
  Title: "Trying to understand how and why the public respond to safety guidance in emergencies – emphasis on the trying"
• Dr Ekaterina Oparina, LSE
  Title: "Talking Therapy: Impacts of a Nationwide Mental Health Service in England"
• Professor Constantine Sedikides, University of Southampton
  Title: "To Be Truthful or to Be Wonderful? The Rocky Road to Self-Knowledge"

Spring Term Bonus Seminars

• Professor Michelle Ryan, Australian National University
  Title: "To Advance Gender Equality, Use the Evidence"
• Dr Mai Albzour, 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, LSE
• Professor Andrew Oswald, Warwick University
• Professor Alex Gillespie, PBS, LSE
• Professor Elizabeth Stokoe, Loughborough University
• Professor Antonia Hamilton, UCL
• Dr Wijnand Van Tilburg, University of Essex
• Dr Divyush Khemka, PBS, LSE
• Dr Toby Pilditch, UCL
• Professor Ulrike Hahn, Birkbeck University
• Professor Colin Wayne Leach, Barnard College, Columbia University
• Professor Scott E Page, University of Michigan
• Dr Rim Saam, University of Sussex
• Dr Renate Ysseldyk, University of Carleton

• Vanessa Bohns, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Cornell University
• Patrick Humphreys, Emeritus Professor, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, LSE
• 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, LSE
• 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