About
Clotilde is a Research Assistant at The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience, where she mainly assists on research projects under the Centre’s “Changing Human Behaviour” priority area. She is passionate about understanding human behaviour and decision-making in relation to other animals. Her current work explores how information about animal sentience can evoke meat-related cognitive dissonance and, consequently, influence consumer acceptance of cultivated meat.
Clotilde holds a MSc in Psychology of Economic Life from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BSc in Psychology from the University of the Sacred Heart in Italy. Her MSc dissertation, supervised by Dr Frédéric Basso, examined whether replacing numeric response scales with smiley-face icons could amplify the known effect of anthropomorphising animals in reducing intentions to eat meat.
Before joining the Centre, she worked at Open Evidence where she conducted research for the European Commission, working with DG JUST on consumer protection against dynamic tariffs and with DG CNECT on recommender system transparency under the Digital Services Act. She has also assisted Professor Angela Sorgente on a cross-national research validating subjective financial well-being measurement scales, and engaged in a study at the UIS Research Centre examining clinician and public perspectives on incretin-receptor agonists for metabolic health.
Expertise
Conceptual metaphor theory, anthropomorphism, decision-making