Overview
The Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science (PBS) brings together international experts at the forefront of behavioural science, to undertake research that seeks to understand, predict and change human behaviour.
Our work informs policy in the UK and Europe, including ongoing research relating to COVID-19. LSE experts in the field of behavioural science continue to engage with policymakers and private companies to inform and drive measures of happiness, behaviour change, inclusion and sustainability.
Experts in the department have paved the way for the use of behavioural science research techniques to test cognition and behaviour, including those found in the LSE Behavioural Lab for Teaching and Research.
Work in the department addresses the following broad themes and topics:
Our research is anchored in a shared evidence-based approach that is theoretically informed and policy relevant.
Expertise in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Professor Paul Dolan
Key areas of expertise: Happiness; public policy; wellbeing; behavioural economics
Dr Matteo M. Galizzi
Associate Professor
Key areas of expertise: Behavioural economics; experimental economics; health economics; behavioural experiments in health; behavioural science for health and pandemic responses, behavioural spillovers; behavioural data linking; external validity, generalisability, and replicability of economic experiments
Dr Laura M. Giurge
Assistant Professor
Key areas of expertise: Behavioural science at work; the experience and use of time; gender diversity; field experiments; workplace innovations; productivity; happiness; work-life balance; power & ethics; decision-making; leadership development
Dr Dario Krpan
Assistant Professor
Key areas of expertise: Motivation; embodiment; priming; perception; dynamical systems; technology; social cognition
Dr Kate Laffan
Assistant Professor
Key areas of expetise: Environmental economics; economic preferences; subjective wellbeing; welfare; pro-environmental behaviour; consumer behaviour; charitable giving; volunteering; sustainability
Dr Grace Lordan
Associate Professor, Director of The Inclusion Initiative (TII)
Key areas of expertise: Decision-making; experimental leadership; career success; inclusion; unconscious bias; behavioural science; gender equality; future of work; labour economics
Dr Michael Muthukrishna
Associate Professor
Key areas of expertise: Assimilation; corruption; cross-cultural psychology; cultural and social change; data science; democracy; economic psychology; entrepreneurship; human evolution; innovation; intelligence; multiculturalism; cultural evolution
Dr Jet G. Sanders
Assistant Professor
Key areas of expertise: Behavioural science; experimental psychology; cognitive psychology; time; public health; hyper-realistic masks
Dr Ganga Shreedhar
Assistant Professor
Key areas of expertise: Behavioural economics; environmental economics; ecological economics; environmental psychology; conservation marketing; behavioural public policy
Dr Georgios Melios
Research Officer
Key areas of expertise: Political behaviour; norms; beliefs; behavioural economics; protests; polarisation.