About the seminar series
The Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science hosts a term-time seminar series, where we invite researchers to present their latest findings.
The series is particularly beneficial for LSE students and early career researchers as it presents the opportunity to discuss and debate new findings in social psychology and behavioural science in a small, open setting.
How to join a seminar
The Departmental Seminar Series is open to all LSE staff and students.
Seminars normally take place on Wednesdays at 12-1pm during term time. This year the series will take place in a hybrid format - both in-person and online - unless specified.
All details, including speaker information, title and abstract, location and Zoom link will be sent via email each week from the PBS Events team pbs.events@lse.ac.uk. Please refer to this email for any changes to schedule and confirmation on the format. If you are a member of LSE staff or a student from outside the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, please email pbs.events@lse.ac.uk to join the mailing list.
Speakers 2024/25
Winter Term
- Wednesday 22 January 2025
, Imperial College London
Title: 'Political Identity in Digital Environments'
- Wednesday 29 January 2025
, University of Copenhagen
Title: 'World-Making: Field social psychology and processes of social change'
- Wednesday 12 February 2025
, University of Amsterdam
Title: 'Climate actions from individual to collective'
- Wednesday 19 February 2025
, Bocconi University
Title: 'Tastes better than expected: Post-intervention effects of a vegetarian month in the student canteen'
- Wednesday 5 March 2025
, University of Bern
Title: 'Tax evasion: models of behaviour, evidence, contrasting policies'
- Wednesday 12 March 2025
, Institut Jean Nicod
Title: 'Why do people trust science?'
- Wednesday 19 March 2025
, The Open University
Title: "Social Psychology of citizenship"
- Wednesday 2 April 2025
, Hamburg University
Title: "The Instant Judgment: Exploring Spontaneous Trait Inferences and Their Implications"
Autumn Term
- Wednesday 9 October 2024
Dr Ilka Gleibs, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, LSE
Title: 'A social identity approach to crisis leadership'
- Wednesday 16 October 2024
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'
- Wednesday 23 October 2024
Dr Sakshi Ghai, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, LSE
Title: 'Rethinking sample diversity in research design'
- Wednesday 30 October 2024
, Israel Institute of Technology
Title: 'I didn’t ask for ChatGPT’s help: How AI anticipatory help increases threat and decreases AI utilization'
- Wednesday 13 November 2024
, Harvard Business School
Title: 'The Buy-In Effect: When Increasing Initial Effort Motivates Behavioral Follow-Through'
- Wednesday 20 November 2024
, University of Leicester
Title: 'How Social Relationships Affect Group Cooperation: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Real Groups'
- Wednesday 27 November 2024
, University of Frankfurt
Title: 'The new psychology of leadership: Evidence from the Global Identity Leadership Development (GILD) project and beyond'
- Wednesday 4 December 2024
, The Open University
Title: 'Why did they obey? The presence and absence tension in Stanley Milgram’s “Obedience to authority” experiments'
- Wednesday 11 December 2024
, UCL
Title: 'Collective Intelligence is Negotiation: Group Decisions Amidst Disagreement'
Past speakers
Autumn Term
- , 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'
- , Western University
Title: "Indigenous Reflections on Land-based Research Methodologies"
- , 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"
- , University of California Santa Cruz
Title: "Adolescents as Agents of Cultural Change and Continuity through their use of Social Media"
- , UCL
Title: "The prevalence & consequences of the severity effect in probability communication"
Winter Term
- , University of Cambridge
Title: "The political psychology of false polarization and real polarization around the cultural axis"
- , University of Oslo
Title: "The Social Transmission of Support for Authoritarian Rule: Evidence from Field and Survey Experiments"
- , University of Nottingham
Title: "Climate justice perceptions around the world"
- , University of Zurich
Title: "Does playing up one's humanity pay off for leaders?"
- , Brunel University
Title: "Atheism as a Testing Ground For Theories of Religion"
- , University of Michigan
Title: "Culturally Wise Interventions and Their Influence on Meaning Making and Behavior Across Diverse Cultural Contexts"
- , University of Edinburgh
Title: "Trying to understand how and why the public respond to safety guidance in emergencies – emphasis on the trying"
- , LSE
Title: "Talking Therapy: Impacts of a Nationwide Mental Health Service in England"
- , University of Southampton
Title: "To Be Truthful or to Be Wonderful? The Rocky Road to Self-Knowledge"
Spring Term Bonus Seminars
- , Australian National University
Title: "To Advance Gender Equality, Use the Evidence"
- , 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
- , Warwick University
- Professor Alex Gillespie, PBS, LSE
- , Loughborough University
- , UCL
- , University of Essex
- Dr Divyush Khemka, PBS, LSE
- , UCL
- , Birkbeck University
- , Barnard College, Columbia University
- , University of Michigan
- , University of Sussex
- , 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