Research
Work-in-progress: We are working on a page show-casing the research of our Junior Researchers, Teams, Alumni, & Collaborators.
Projects
Up to six projects are initiated every year at jSchool. If you are interested in the current projects, visit the 2023 – 2024 Projects.
jGlobal articles
Over the past years, visiting researchers have helped develop, finalise, and publish the following:
- A 27-country test of communicating the scientific consensus on climate change
- The Globalisibility of Temporal Discounting
- Political Metaperceptions
- Psychology and Behavioral Economics: Applications for Public Policy
- Global Replication Study on Loss Aversion
Psychology, Behavioral Economics & Public Policy - A textbook in two editions
Behavioural Insight for Public Policy: Concepts and Cases, a textbook published by Routledge, is the result of work from the 2017 JRP cohort.
It is the first textbook for teaching to fully examine how psychology can be applied to a range of public policy areas. It addresses a wide variety of topics from the origins of policy as well as major findings from behavioural economics and nudge theory, to large-scale applications of behavioural science to policy.
This volume was authored by a team of experts from across behavioural sciences in academia, government, and industry, as well as early career researchers in the JRP. We hope you find it a useful tool for teaching and learning this rapidly growing field of research and practice.
The second edition of the textbook, Psychology and Behavioral Economics: Applications for Public Policy, features updated examples and more in-depth explorations on how psychology and behavioural sciences can be and are used in policy to improve lives.
Insights for Impact
Insights for Impact is a three-year series of annual reports on the applications of behavioural science to policy.
The 2016 Insights for Impact report, was the first and the biggest of the reports, focusing on behavioural insights in five different themes: Decision-making, Cognition & Neuroscience, Illness & Disorder, Big Data, and Health & Well-being.
The following year, the 2017 Insights for Impact report highlights findings from work carried out by academics and affiliates from the be-
havioural, cognitive, social, and brain sciences in Cambridge, primarily within the Department of Psychology
As work on the textbook evolved the final report, the 2018 Insights for Impact report, is condensed and has a narrowed focus on major findings in the same themes produced in the textbook: financial choice, health and healthcare, energy and environment,
education, and workplace.