We’re excited to announce the jSchool 2021 theme: Inequality: Behavioural science to confront systemic and social barriers. All jSchool 2021 projects feature topics that are related to this theme.

This year, the JRP is looking for projects that specifically focus on behaviour and decision- making within and between diverse populations, with a specific focus on how these patterns may differ for disadvantaged populations. More specifically, we will collectively focus on incorporating the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) into all projects, as we will aim to work in a joint effort to focus on replicability, generalizability, and potential for real-world benefits. This will be done by investing all research on a common topic.

Some of the specific questions we expect projects to focus on are:

• Is there overall replicability of the TPB in various domains and cultural contexts? Domains could include health or financial behaviour.
• Do assumptions and existing evidence from TPB apply equally for disadvantaged populations? This could account for ethnic/racial, economic, geographic variables, depending on the specific topic.

Broadly speaking, the projects we are looking for can be divided into 3 tiers:

• Tier 1: Lab environment (online survey). Testing TBP in different domains, such as direct or conceptual replications of TBP studies in health and financial behaviour, with an additional focus on inequalities.
• Tier 2: Lab environment (online survey). Testing TBP-based interventions that improve health/financial behaviour, with an additional focus on which interventions close inequality gaps.
• Tier 3: Real-world behaviour. Can TPB be applied in the real world, and does it “work” the same for everone? This will be achieved in collaboration with external organizations that have access to actual behavioural data, with which the JRP will assist project teams.

Apply now!

The deadline for Research Supervisors for jSchool 2021 has now closed. The applications for students will open in late March.