Thanks very much to Leonhard Lades and Suhas Vijayakumar for organising the 16th annual workshop on economics and psychology in Ireland. The programme is below. I was involved in setting up and running the first decade or so of these workshops (the schedule for the first one in 2008 is here). There is a very interesting community of researchers across policy, academia, and industry in Ireland who are interested in what has increasingly come to be referred to as behavioural science and policy work. The workshop each year has consisted of a combination of regular academic talks, ideas for new centres and programmes, international keynotes from some of the foundational figures in behavioural science and policy, policy and industry presentations, and panel sessions. Several people have also revamped the Irish Behavioural Science and Policy Network that will roll out regular sessions in this area in Ireland (details here).
09:00 – 09:20: Welcome
09:20 – 09:40: Ylva Andersson (ESRI) on “Psychological determinants of intentions and actions for transport and food behaviour change”
09:40 – 10:00: Shane Timmons (ESRI) on “Shifting Consumers Towards Environmentally Friendly Food Choices”
10:00 – 10:20: Stephen Pilli (UCD) on “Are Chatbots Effective in Measuring Cognitive Biases?”
10:20 – 10:40: Marta Talevi (UCD) on “Keeping up with the neighbours or learning from them? The role of peer effects in the diffusion of residential solar PV systems”
10:40 – 11:00: Tea/Coffee
11:00 – 11:20: Aisling Bradfield (SCOR) on “Behavioral Science in Life Insurance Application Re-Design”
11:20 – 11:40: Amy Hume (Ofcom, UK) on “Boosts v Nudges: What might help users live safer lives online?”
11:40 – 12:00: Deirdre Robertson (ESRI) on “Can a behaviourally informed app reduce hot water wastage in the home? A nationwide field trial”
12:00 – 12:20: Michael Daly (Maynooth) on “Global evidence linking particulate matter (PM) 2.5 air pollution and emotional distress”
12:20 – 13:20: Lunch
13:20 – 14:00: Keynote by Prof Lars Tummers on “How to Manipulate Yourself & Others”
14:00 – 14:20: Leonhard Lades (UCD) on “Sludge, Administrative Burden, and Climate Change”
14:20 – 14:40: John Reidy (Department of Health) on “The Impact of Redesigned Appointment SMS Reminders on Outpatient DNAs”
14:40 – 15:00: Sukanya Shukla (DCU) on “Ethical Issues Surrounding Green Nudges: A Systematic Literature Review using PRISMA-Ethics”
15:00 – 15:20: Pete Lunn (ESRI) on “Status Quo Bias and Climate Policy: An Experimental Approach to Debiasing Opinion Formation”
15:20 – 15:40: Coffee
15:40 – 16:00: Suhas Vijayakumar (UCD) on “To Delegate or not to Delegate… to AI”
16:00 – 16:20: Féidhlim McGowan (Galway) on “The Effect of Information and Boosts on Support for a Frequent Flyer Levy”
16:20 – 16:40: Lucie Martin (ESRI) on “Climate Collective Action Problems”
16:40 – 17:00: Emma Howard (TUDublin) on “‘Great expectations? How vegetarian meal requestors expect to be perceived, and the impact of mentioning diet or motivation when making the request’”