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Thursday 13 November 2025: Barbara Fasolo, Matteo M Galizzi, Sanchayan Banerjee and the BL team organise the 1st Joint Workshop on Advances in Behavioural Research by the LSE Behavioural Lab & KCL Behavioural Public Policy Lab. (Follow this link for the: AM Session Recording)

Friday 25 July 2025: Matteo M Galizzi organises the 3rd annual Conference of the Alums of the LSE Executive MSc in Behavioural Science. 

Monday 16 June 2025: Matteo M Galizzi co-ordinates with Prof. Fabio Tufano (University of Leicester School of Business) the Annual General Meeting of the Behavioural and Experimental Economists UK (BEE UK) network at the 2^nd Annual Conference of the Network of the Behavioural and Experimental Economists in the UK at the University of Sheffield. 

Thursday 1st May 2025: Barbara Fasolo and Matteo M Galizzi organise an event for the LSE Executive MSc in Behavioural Science at the international conference BX2025 in Abu Dhabi on New Frontiers in Behavioural Science. In addition to introducing the Executive MSc programme, Barbara Fasolo facilitates a conversation with EMSc Alums Fatima Koaik and Rasha Attar ElSolh about their research on the use of synthetic participants in behavioural science studies.

Thursday 1st May 2025: Barbara Fasolo and Umar Taj give a workshop in strategic decision making at BX 2025 Abu Dhabi

Tuesday 19 November 2024: Matteo M Galizzi chairs a panel roundtable on “Reproducibility in the Age of AI” with Dr. Sanchayan Banerjee (King’s College London), Dr. Sakshi Ghai (LSE), and Dr. Dario Krpan (LSE), organised by the LSE Open Research Working Group (ORWG). 

Wednesday 13 November 2024: Matteo M Galizzi contributes as a keynote speaker with a talk on “Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics” at the 2nd Workshop in Behavioural Economics at Europea (WoBE@E). The workshop, themed “Health and Behaviour - Applying Behavioural Science to the Design and Evaluation of Health Policies”, was organised by Prof. Enrique Fatas at the Universidad Europea in Valencia.

Monday 7 - Tuesday 8 October 2024: Matteo M Galizzi serves in the Scientific Committee of the 9th BEH-net Workshop in Behavioural and Experimental Health Economics organised by Dr. Sebastian Neumann-Böhme at the Hamburg Center for Health Economics.

Thursday 26 - Friday 27 September 2024: Barbara Fasolo gives the Keynote Talk to the Nordic Conference in Behavioural and Experimental Economics, hosted by the Department of Economics at the University of Copenhagen.

Thursday 12 September 2024: Matteo M Galizzi participates in the panel discussion “Help Researchers Evaluate and Learn from Evidence” in Day 2 on “Using Behavioural Science to Inform Meta-Science and Research Policy” of the Workshop “Behavioural Science Meets Metascience“ organised by Dr. Severine Toussaert at the Department of Economics of the University of Oxford. 

Saturday 7 September - Sunday 8 September: Dina Rabie organises The BUE-EBEL 4th Annual International Meeting in Behavioural and Experimental Economics, at the British Univerisy in Egypt.

Friday 6 September 2024: Matteo M Galizzi presents his paper “Risk Beliefs, Soft Commitments, and Take-Up of Preventative Health Care: Experimental Evidence from Zimbabwe” (joint with Ranjeeta Thomas, LSE) at the Advances with Field Experiments (AFE) 2024 Conference at the LSE.

Friday 19 July 2024: Matteo M Galizzi organises the 2nd Conference of the Alumni of the LSE Executive MSc Conference in Behavioural Science.

Thursday 11– Friday 12 July 2024: Matteo M Galizzi co-organises with Prof. Fabio Tufano (University of Leicester School of Business) the 1st Annual Conference of the Network of the Behavioural and Experimental Economists based in the UK, at the University of Leicester School of Business.

Thursday 11 July 2024: Matteo M Galizzi launches with Prof. Fabio Tufano (University of Leicester School of Business) the Behavioural and Experimental Economists UK (BEE UK)  Network at the 1st Annual Conference of the Network of Behavioural and Experimental Economists in the UK, hosted by the University of Leicester School of Business.

Thursday 11 July 2024: Dina Rabie presents her paper “Higher Order Risk Preferences and Choice Inconsistencies in Risk and Intertemporal Decisions Tasks” at the 1st Annual Conference of the Network of the Behavioural and Experimental Economists based in the UK (BEE UK), at the University of Leicester School of Business.

Thursday 4 July 2024: Dina Rabie presents her paper "Higher Order Risk Preferences and Choice Inconsistencies in Risk and Intertemporal Decisions Tasks" at the 2024 Foundations of Utility and Risk (FUR) conference, at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Thursday 27 June 2024: Matteo M Galizzi contributes as advisor and panel speaker to the “Closing Panel with the Editors of Behavioural Public Policy” at the Workshop “Behavioural Transformations: New Directions in Behavioural Public Policy” organised by Dr. Sanchayan Banerjee at the LSE.

Tuesday 25 June 2024: Matteo M Galizzi presents his paper on “Transparency, Reproducibility, and Generalizability in Behavioural Public Policy Experiments” in the session on “Methodological Frontiers in Behavioural Public Policy” at the Third International Behavioural Public Policy Conference organised by Prof. Lucia Reisch and Dr. Paul Lohmann at the El-Erian Institute of Behavioural Economics and Policy at the University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 11 June 2024: Matteo M Galizzi co-organises with Daniel Navarro-Martinez (UPF and BSE) the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) Summer Forum 5th Workshop on “External Validity, Generalizability, and Replicability of Economic Experiments”.

Tuesday 11 June 2024: Luc Schneider presents at the LSE Festival a talk on our approach to better decision making.

Monday 3 June 2024: Dina Rabie presents her paper "Attitudes towards Islamic Inheritance: Son Preference or Religiosity?" at the Economics of Diversity, Gender and Equality network seminar series.

Monday 6 May 2024: Matteo M Galizzi publishes the book “Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics – Insights from Responses to COVID-19” (Cambridge University Press, co-edited with Joan Costa-Font, LSE).

Thursday 14 March 2024: Matteo M Galizzi presents his project “Do Economic Preferences Predict Sexual Behaviour and HIV Prevention of Youths in a Low-Income, High-Risk Setting?” (joint with Ranjeeta Thomas, LSE) at the Behavioural & Experimental Economics (BEE) seminars at the Center for Environmental Economics – Montpellier (CEE-M) and Montpellier Laboratory of Experimental Economics (LEEM).

Tuesday 30 January 2024: Barbara Fasolo chairs the Public Lecture hosted by Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy, and the LSE Department of Social Policy, by Prof. Ralph Hertwig (Max Planck Institute, Germany): “Empowering citizens with behavioral science”.

Wednesday 17 January 2024: Ploutarchos Kourtidis gives a webinar on "Behavioural Economics and its Application in Public Policy and Beyond" at the Department of Economics Research Seminars, University of Crete, Greece

Sunday 19 November 2023: Ploutarchos Kourtidis presents a poster on “Combatting Confirmation Bias in Health Information Processing: Debias or Nudge?”, joint with Barbara Fasolo and Matteo M Galizzi, at the 2023 SJDM Annual conference. 2023-program (sjdm.org)

Monday 9 October 2023: Barbara Fasolo chairs the STICERD Public Lecture hosted by STICERD, the Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy, and the Department of Social Policy, by Prof Lionel Page (University of Queensland): “Optimally Irrational - The Good Reasons We Behave the Way We Do”

Wednesday 4 October 2023: Matteo M Galizzi presents his project “Do Economic Preferences Predict Sexual Behaviour and HIV Prevention of Youths in a Low-Income, High-Risk Setting?” (joint with Dr Ranjeeta Thomas, LSE) at the seminar series of the Experimental Economics Group (EEG) of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods at Bonn led by Prof Matthias Sutter. Experimental Economics Group | Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods (mpg.de)

Friday 8 September 2023: Barbara Fasolo and Matteo M Galizzi contribute to the PERISCOPE Final Conference in Brussels “From Data Science and Socio-Economic Research to Policy and Technology - Learning from COVID-19 to Build Better Health and Care in Europe”. PERISCOPE Final Conference (periscopeproject.eu)

Thursday 24 August 2023: Claire Heard presents her paper with Virginia Fedrigo, Barbara Fasolo and Matteo M Galizzi on “Exploring how the affect-gap in risky choice is influenced by day-of-the-week effects” at the 29th SPUDM conference in Vienna, Austria EADM

Monday 21 August 2023: Ploutarchos Kourtidis presents his work with Barbara Fasolo and Matteo M Galizzi on "Confirmation bias and mitigating strategies in vaccine decision making" at the 29th SPUDM conference in Vienna, Austria EADM

Thursday 27 - Friday 28 July 2023: Matteo M Galizzi serves in the Scientific Committee of the 8th BEH-net Workshop in Behavioural and Experimental Health Economics organised by Prof. Robert Bohm at University of Vienna. dggö » 8th Workshop in Behavioral and Experimental Health Economics (BEH) (dggoe.de)

Wednesday 12 July 2023: Barbara Fasolo presents her paper on “freedom cues” at the Kingston University Behavioural Science Series. Kingston University Behavioural Science Series: Positive effect of freedom and autonomy on consumer experience when customers choose from large assortments

Thursday 29 - Friday 30 June 2023: Matteo M Galizzi presents his project “Do Economic Preferences Predict Sexual Behaviour and HIV Prevention of Youths in a Low-Income, High-Risk Setting?” (joint with Dr. Ranjeeta Thomas, LSE) at the ANR RETRISK Workshop on “External Validity of Risk Elicitation” organised by Dr. Paolo Crosetto at the Grenoble Applied Economics Lab (GAEL) – Universite Grenoble Alpes. Workshop ANR RETRISK | GAEL - Université Grenoble Alpes (univ-grenoble-alpes.fr)

Friday 16 June 2023: Matteo M Galizzi contributes to the panel round table on “From Research to Policy – When and How” at the “Future of Behavioural Public Policy” Workshop organised in London by the Notre Dame Law School Research Program on Law and Market Behavior (ND LAMB) and the LSE Department of Social Policy. The Future of Behavioral Public Policy II | Events | News and Events | Law and Market Behavior | University of Notre Dame

Sunday 11 June 2023: Matteo M Galizzi co-organises with Dr. Daniel Navarro-Martinez (UPF and BSE) the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) Summer Forum 4th Workshop on “External Validity, Generalizability, and Replicability of Economic Experiments”.External Validity, Generalizability and Replicability of Economic Experiments | BSE Summer Forum

Monday 5 June 2023: As part of the PERISCOPE project, Barbara Fasolo and Matteo M Galizzi contribute to the LSE Commission for Pandemic Governance and Inequalities: an experiment in cross-disciplinarity for pandemic policy (periscopeproject.eu)

Thursday 10 November 2022: Matteo M Galizzi contributes to the round table “Behavioural Interventions and their Impacts” at the Annual Symposium of the Imperial College Abdul Laif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics on “Preparing for the Next Pandemic: Economics, Behaviour, and Equity”. Events | Research groups | Imperial College London

Friday 8 July 2022: Matteo M Galizzi presents his project “Do Economic Preferences Predict Sexual Behaviour and HIV Prevention of Youths in a Low-Income, High-Risk Setting?” (joint with Dr Ranjeeta Thomas, LSE) at the iRisk Workshop on “Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty” in honour of Prof. Louis Eeckhoudt organised by Prof. Loic Berger at IESEG School of Management in Lille. [Research Workshop] iRisk: Decision-making under risk and uncertainty - IÉSEG (ieseg.fr)

Thursday 7 July 2022: Matteo M Galizzi contributes as advisor and panel speaker to the panel on “Rationality Science in Pandemics” at the Workshop “Behavioural Transformations in the 21st Century: Frontiers in Behavioural Public Policy” organised by Dr. Sanchayan Banerjee at the LSE. Behavioural Transformations - 2022 Edition (google.com)

Tuesday 22 March 2022: Ploutarchos Kourtidis presents his PERISCOPE work with Barbara Fasolo and Matteo M Galizzi on "Does encouraging people to get vaccinated have any unintended spillover effects?" at the Multidisciplinary workshop on COVID-19 vaccine mistrust, organised by the LSE.

Thursday 30 November 2017: Ashley Whillans presents her work "Exchanging cents for seconds: the happiness benefits of choosing time over money" at the LSE Behavioural Science Hub Seminar.

Tuesday 6 June 2017: Andrew Caplin (NYU) presents his work "Data engineering and the HUMAN project" at the LSE Behavioural Science Hub Seminar.

Tuesday 30 May 2017: David Y Yang (Stanford) presents his work "1984 or the Brave New World? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Media Censorship in China" at the LSE Behavioural Science Hub Seminar.

Thursday 11 May 2017: Glenn W Harrison (GSU) presents his work "New Behavioral Economics and Old Welfare Economics" at the LSE Behavioural Science Hub Seminar.

Monday 6 March 2017: Eugen Dimant (UPenn) presents his work "On behavioral contagion of pro- and anti-social behavior among individuals and groups" at the LSE Behavioural Science Hub Seminar.

Friday 27 January 2017: Guillaume Fréchette (NYU) presents his work with Matthew Embrey (U. of Sussex) and Sevgi Yuksel (UC Santa Barbara) on "Cooperation in the Finitely Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma" at the LSE Behavioural Science Hub Seminar.

Monday 12 December 2016: Professor Julia Black (LSE) and Lord Gus O'Donnell (Cabinet Secretary 2005-11; Chair of the Academic Advisory Panel of the Behavioural Insights Team) chaired the LSE Behavioural Science Hub's inaugural event, where they tackled the issue of "Behavioural Science and Policy" with Professor Paul Dolan.

Friday 25 November 2016: Daan van Soest (Tilburg) presents his work on "Habits, intrinsic motivation, and environmental policy: a field experiment on household waste sorting" at the LSE Behavioural Economics Seminar.

Tuesday 14 June 2016: LSE conducts the First Workshop on Behavioural Data Linking.

Wednesday 1 June 2016: Richard Thaler (Chicago) speaks at the LSE Behavioural Research Lab public conversation titled "Misbehaving: the making of behavioural economics," chaired by Craig Calhoun (LSE).

Wednesday 18 May 2016: Matthias Sutter (Cologne) presents his work on "Where to look for the morals in markets?" alongside Antonio Guarino (UCL), also presenting his work "Updating ambiguous beliefs in a social learning experiment" at the London Behavioural and Experimental Group (LBEG) Seminar.

Tuesday 26 April 2016: Gary Charness (UCSB) presents his work on "Communication and (non-)equilibrium selection" alongside Peter John (UCL), also presenting his work "Nudges that promote channel shift: a randomized evaluation of reminders for disability badges" at the London Behavioural and Experimental Group (LBEG) Seminar.

Tuesday 7 April 2016: George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon) presents his work on "Information avoidance" at the London Behavioural and Experimental Group (LBEG) Seminar.

Friday 4 December 2015: Rosemarie Nagel (UPF) was the plenary speaker at the London PhD Experimental Economics Workshop, hosted by the Department of Economics at Royal Holloway, University of London. London PhD Experimental Economics Workshop

Monday 30 November 2015: The London Experimental Week kicks off with venues at the LSE, Middlesex University, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Monday 30 November 2015: Giovanni Ponti (Alicante, LUISS) presents his work on "Some (Mis)Facts about Myopic Loss Aversion" alongside Aniol Llorente-Saguer (QMUL), also presenting his work "Unanimous Rules in the Laboratory" at the London Behavioural and Experimental Group (LBEG) Seminar.

Thursday 8 October 2015: Daniel Zizzo (Newcastle) presents his work on "Cooperation and accountability one step removed" alongside Michael Naef (RHUL), also presenting his work "Conformist preferences in mixed-motive games" at the London Behavioural and Experimental Group (LBEG) Seminar.

Tuesday 15 September 2015: David Halpern (BIT) speaks at the LSE Department of Management Public Lecture titled "Inside the Nudge Unit: how small changes can make a big difference," chaired by Barbara Fasolo (LSE).

Tuesday 1 September 2015: Max Bazerman (Harvard) presents his work on "The morality of joint versus separate decisions" at the LSE Behavioural Science Special Lecture.

Tuesday 3 March 2015: Colin Camerer (Caltech) presents his work on "Neuroeconomics of experimental stock price bubbles" alongside Antonio Cabrales (UCL), also presenting his work "Can there be a market for cheap-talk information? Some experimental evidence" at the London Behavioural and Experimental Group (LBEG) Seminar.

Thursday 5 February 2015: Enrico Diecidue (INSEAD) presents his work on "Dynamic consistency in collective decisions" at the LSE Behavioural Economics Seminar.

Thursday 29 January 2015: Daniel J Zizzo (University of Newcastle) presents his work on "Competence versus trustworthiness: what do voters care about?" alongside Pablo Brañas-Garza (Middlesex University), also presenting his work "Ethnic polarization, gender roles, and punishment in Public Good Games" at the London Behavioural and Experimental Group (LBEG) Seminar.

Thursday 22 January 2015: Sara Machado (Boston University) presents her work on "Loss aversion and altruism in repeated blood donation" at the LSE Behavioural Economics Seminar.

Thursday 4 December 2014: Natalie Gold (KCL), Jeroen Nieboer (LSE), Shaun Hargreaves-Heap (KCL), and Ismael Rodriguez-Lara (Middlesex) present their work at the London Behavioural and Experimental Group Work-in-Progress Seminar conducted at King’s College London.

Monday 1 December 2014: Jason Shachat (Durham) presents his work on "Discrete rule learning and the bidding of the sexes" at the London PhD Experimental Workshop (LPEx) hosted by Middlesex University.

Thursday 13 November 2014: Graham Loomes (Warwick Business School) presents his work on "Looking for ‘attitudes to ambiguity’ in a strategic setting" alongside Nick Vriend (QMUL), also presenting his work "Social identity and punishment in a minimum effort game" at the London Behavioural and Experimental Group (LBEG) Seminar conducted at the Senate House Library.

Thursday 6 November 2014: Levent Neyse (Kiel Institute for the World Economy) presents his work on "The impact of prenatal testosterone exposure on economic decision making" at the LSE Behavioural Economics Seminar.

Thursday 30 October 2014: Robert Metcalfe (University of Chicago) presents his work on "Incentivizing the take-up of energy efficient technologies and their subsequent impact on use: evidence from field experiments" at the LSE Behavioural Economics Seminar.

Friday 17 October 2014: John List (Chicago) presents his work on "Field experiments in economics" at the LSE Behavioural Science Special Lecture.

Thursday 16 October 2014: Cass Sunstein (Harvard) and Paul Dolan (LSE) speak at the LSE Behavioural Science Special Event: The Business of Nudging.

Thursday 2 October 2014: Peter Wakker (Erasmus University Rotterdam) presents his work on "Prince: an improved method for measuring incentivized preferences" alongside Shaun Hargreaves Heap (KCL), also presenting his work "Personality, pro-sociality, and discrimination" at the London Behavioural and Experimental Group (LBEG) Seminar conducted at the Senate House Library.

Thursday 18 September 2014: Robert Cialdini (Arizona State University) and Steve Martin (Influence at Work) speak at the Joint LSE Behavioural Science-London Behavioural Economics Network Special Event chaired by Baron Daniel Finkelstein OBE (The Times).

Tuesday 17 June 2014: Saurabh Bhargava (Carnegie Mellon University) presents his work on "The affliction of choice: sub-optimality in health insurance elections" at the LSE Behavioural Economics Seminar.

Tuesday 20 May 2014: Andrea Isoni (Warwick) presents his work on "Boundedly rational expected utility theory" at the LSE Behavioural Economics Seminar.

Tuesday 11 March 2014: Johannes Abeler (Oxford) presents his work on "Complex tax incentives: an experimental investigation" at the LSE Behavioural Economics Seminar.

Tuesday 4 March 2014: Paul Dolan (LSE) presents his work on "One thing always leads to another: behavioural spillovers and their implications for research and policy" at the LSE Behavioural Economics Seminar.

Tuesday 18 February 2014: Michael Hallsworth (Behavioural Insights Team) presents his work on "New findings from the Behavioural Insights Team" at the LSE Behavioural Economics Seminar.

Tuesday 11 February 2014: Antonio Cabrales (UCL) presents his work on "Boys will be boys: an experiment on feedback performance information" at the LSE Behavioural Economics Seminar.

Tuesday 4 February 2014: Alex Imas (Carnegie Mellon University) presents his work on "The realization effect: risk-taking after realized versus paper losses" at the LSE Behavioural Economics Seminar.

Tuesday 28 January 2014: Drazen Prelec (MIT) presents his work on "Finding truth even if the crowd is wrong" at the LSE Behavioural Economics Seminar.

Tuesday 21 January 2014: Oriana Bandiera (LSE) presents his work on "Doctors and do-gooders: evidence on the selection and performance of health workers in a nationwide program" at the LSE Behavioural Economics Seminar.

Tuesday 10 December 2013: David Hugh-Jones (Essex) presents his work on "Why Are Heterogeneous Societies Inefficient? Theory, History, and an Experiment" at the LSE Behavioural Economics Seminar.

Tuesday 3 December 2013: Matteo M Galizzi (LSE) presents his work on "Looking Ahead: Subjective Time Perception and Individual Time Discounting" at the LSE Behavioural Economics Seminar.

Tuesday 26 November 2013: Alex Voorhoeve (LSE) presents his work on "Ambiguity aversion, the Hurwicz criterion, and the principle of insufficient reason" at the LSE Behavioural Economics Seminar in Room CLM.4.02.

Tuesday 26 November 2013: Pablo Brañas Garza (Middlesex) presents his work on "Solidarity and Information" at the LSE Behavioural Economics Seminar in Room STC.S421.

Friday 12 November 2013: George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon) presents his work on "Behavioural economics and diet" at the LSE Behavioural Science Special Lecture.