The 3rd Scottish Behavioural Science Conference took place in University of Stirling’s Court Room, 9.30am to 5pm. It was a great success and very enjoyable!
More details (including speakers, schedule, etc.) are posted on this website.
The purpose of this conference series is to further develop links between behavioural scientists (e.g., from behavioural economics, social and cognitive psychology, philosophy, and related areas) throughout Scotland.
For this conference series, we understand behavioural science as the study of when and why people engage in specific behaviors. We are also interested in applications of behavioural insights to change behaviour (e.g. through nudges or boosts) and inform policy making for example by guiding welfare assessments (e.g. well-being research).
Presentations from academics and practitioners are equally welcome.
Schedule
09:30 – 09:45: Welcome
09:45 – 10:00: Leonhard Lades (Stirling) on “Paying More or Hassling Less? Experimental Evidence on Administrative Burdens, Incentives, and Grant Take-Up”
10:00 – 10:15: Jasmine Yang (Stirling) on “Why Don’t Consumers Switch? Structural Evidence on Switching Costs and Inattention from the UK Energy Market”
10:15 – 10:30: Jayne Brown (Stirling) on “What do people believe environmental pricing policies are really for? A study on framing, motives and public support”
10:30 – 10:45: Till Stowasser (Stirling) on “Flushed away? The impact of message framing on wet wipe use, disposal, and policy support”
10:45 – 11:15: Coffee Break
11:15 – 11:45: Niamh Hart and Julze Alejandre (both BR-UK, Edinburgh) on “Engaging Publics and Interest Holders in Behavioural Research: Insights and Practice from Behavioural Research UK”
11:45 – 12:00: John Stephen (Scottish Government) on “Using sludge audits to increase grant uptake: a case study of the Home Energy Scotland Grant and Loan scheme”
12:00 – 12:15: Luis Enrique Loria Rebolledo (Aberdeen) on “Valuing NHS Scotland outdoor estate: How are NHS open spaces used and what is their value to the Scottish population”
12:15 – 12:30: Danny Campbell (Stirling) on “Latent attitudes and Historic High Streets”
12:30 – 13:30: Lunch Break
13:30 – 13:45: Eugenio Proto (Glasgow) on “Social Comparison and Young Adult Mental Health with Endogenous Network Formation”
13:45 – 14:00: Gerhard Riener (St. Andrews) on “Performance Observability and Feedback Avoidance among Pupils: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in India”
14:00 – 14:15: Nick Hanley (Glasgow) on “The Economic Value of Bird Song”
14:15 – 14:30: Jing Zhou (Edinburgh) on “Correlation Neglect in Financial Decision-Making: The Role of Complexity”
14:30 – 15:00: Coffee Break
15:00 – 15:15: Katharina Addington‑Lefringhausen (Heriot-Watt) on “Revisiting Power in Acculturation Research”
15:15 – 15:30: Mioara Cristea (Heriot-Watt) on “Pro-Environmental Willingness and Narcissism: Investigating Individual and Collective Expressions of Self-Enhancement”
15:30 – 15:45: Siting Estee Lu (Edinburgh) on “Large Language Models can Predict Human Strategic Decisions”
15:45 – 16:00: Dave Comerford (Stirling) on “Desludging science: Applying behavioural insights to the marketplace of ideas”
16:00 – 17:00: Reflections and Networking
To get a feeling for the conference, here is a link to its 2024 version (https://behsci.stir.ac.uk/2024/01/29/scottish-behavioural-science-conference-may-02-2024/) and a picture:
