About
Dr Lucia Macchia is a behavioural scientist with an interdisciplinary background and an interest in happiness, physical pain, socioeconomic factors, and public policy. Integrating methods from psychology and behavioural economics, she explores how socioeconomic factors shape human wellbeing and behaviour. To study these topics, she uses large-scale datasets and experiments, as well as a wide variety of statistical methods.
Lucia earned her PhD in Psychology from City, University of London, in February 2020. During her PhD, she was a Research Associate in the Wellbeing Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Political Science. After completing her PhD, she was a Research Fellow at the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford and a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is currently a Lecturer at City, University of London.
Lucia's work has been published in journals such as Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Science Advances, Social Science & Medicine and Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Her research has also been featured in popular media outlets such as the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Behavioral Scientist, and The Telegraph.
Her work can be found at www.luciamacchia.com
Expertise
Behavioural Science, Happiness, Physical pain, Wellbeing, Socioeconomic factors, Public policy, Experiments, Large-scale data
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