LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science
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LSE’s Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science, investigating the human mind & behaviour in society. http://lse.ac.uk/PBS
🎓 Another day, another Doctor! We're thrilled to share that Veronika Luptakova successfully defended her PhD thesis, "Inconsistency in Moral Judgments", this week.
Veronika is pictured here with her supervisors, Professor Alex Voorhoeve and Dr @mmglz.bsky.social.
Congratulations Veronika! 🎉
Veronika is pictured here with her supervisors, Professor Alex Voorhoeve and Dr @mmglz.bsky.social.
Congratulations Veronika! 🎉
December 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
🎓 Another day, another Doctor! We're thrilled to share that Veronika Luptakova successfully defended her PhD thesis, "Inconsistency in Moral Judgments", this week.
Veronika is pictured here with her supervisors, Professor Alex Voorhoeve and Dr @mmglz.bsky.social.
Congratulations Veronika! 🎉
Veronika is pictured here with her supervisors, Professor Alex Voorhoeve and Dr @mmglz.bsky.social.
Congratulations Veronika! 🎉
🎉 Congratulations to Nils Mallock, who successfully defended his PhD thesis today!
The thesis, "Pathways to Political Violence and Peaceful Protest in Conflict-Affected Environments," explores why some individuals choose violence for political purposes, despite high personal risks and costs.
The thesis, "Pathways to Political Violence and Peaceful Protest in Conflict-Affected Environments," explores why some individuals choose violence for political purposes, despite high personal risks and costs.
December 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
🎉 Congratulations to Nils Mallock, who successfully defended his PhD thesis today!
The thesis, "Pathways to Political Violence and Peaceful Protest in Conflict-Affected Environments," explores why some individuals choose violence for political purposes, despite high personal risks and costs.
The thesis, "Pathways to Political Violence and Peaceful Protest in Conflict-Affected Environments," explores why some individuals choose violence for political purposes, despite high personal risks and costs.
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🦏🐅 Are we living through a sixth mass extinction?
Dr Ganga Shreedhar from @lsepbs.bsky.social delivers a stark reality check about the urgent need for climate action.
Dr Ganga Shreedhar from @lsepbs.bsky.social delivers a stark reality check about the urgent need for climate action.
What is the sixth mass extinction? #COP30 #ClimateChange #LSE
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December 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🦏🐅 Are we living through a sixth mass extinction?
Dr Ganga Shreedhar from @lsepbs.bsky.social delivers a stark reality check about the urgent need for climate action.
Dr Ganga Shreedhar from @lsepbs.bsky.social delivers a stark reality check about the urgent need for climate action.
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Once people understand what Degrowth is, the majority support it (74–84% in the UK and 67–73% in the US), regardless of the label. See our new research in @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@giorgoskallis.bsky.social @jasonhickel.bsky.social @F. Basso @lsepbs.bsky.social @cusp.ac.uk
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December 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Once people understand what Degrowth is, the majority support it (74–84% in the UK and 67–73% in the US), regardless of the label. See our new research in @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@giorgoskallis.bsky.social @jasonhickel.bsky.social @F. Basso @lsepbs.bsky.social @cusp.ac.uk
@giorgoskallis.bsky.social @jasonhickel.bsky.social @F. Basso @lsepbs.bsky.social @cusp.ac.uk
🏆 Congratulations to our 2025 LSE Excellence in Education Award winners! Pictured here are our colleagues Dr Sakshi Ghai and Chris Roberts, together with Prof Emma McCoy & Prof Alex Voorhoeve.
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Learn more and see all winners: buff.ly/Dq57XPt
December 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🏆 Congratulations to our 2025 LSE Excellence in Education Award winners! Pictured here are our colleagues Dr Sakshi Ghai and Chris Roberts, together with Prof Emma McCoy & Prof Alex Voorhoeve.
Learn more and see all winners: buff.ly/Dq57XPt
Learn more and see all winners: buff.ly/Dq57XPt
📣 Introducing Dr Alyssa Pandolfo! 👏
We're delighted to share that Alyssa successfully defended her PhD thesis, "Safety listening: Conceptualizing and assessing responses to safety voice in organizations", this week.
Congratulations Alyssa, on this fantastic achievement!
#PartofLSE #PhD #Viva
We're delighted to share that Alyssa successfully defended her PhD thesis, "Safety listening: Conceptualizing and assessing responses to safety voice in organizations", this week.
Congratulations Alyssa, on this fantastic achievement!
#PartofLSE #PhD #Viva
November 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
📣 Introducing Dr Alyssa Pandolfo! 👏
We're delighted to share that Alyssa successfully defended her PhD thesis, "Safety listening: Conceptualizing and assessing responses to safety voice in organizations", this week.
Congratulations Alyssa, on this fantastic achievement!
#PartofLSE #PhD #Viva
We're delighted to share that Alyssa successfully defended her PhD thesis, "Safety listening: Conceptualizing and assessing responses to safety voice in organizations", this week.
Congratulations Alyssa, on this fantastic achievement!
#PartofLSE #PhD #Viva
🎯 Teaching happiness: turning insight into real-world impact
At LSE, wellbeing teaching spans master’s courses like Happiness and Wellbeing for Policy, world-first Summer School options, dedicated seminars, as well as the MSc Behavioural Science Wellbeing Specialism.
Learn more ⬇️
At LSE, wellbeing teaching spans master’s courses like Happiness and Wellbeing for Policy, world-first Summer School options, dedicated seminars, as well as the MSc Behavioural Science Wellbeing Specialism.
Learn more ⬇️
Teaching happiness: LSE’s leading role in wellbeing education
Discover how LSE equips students to shape happier societies through innovative wellbeing courses, policy training, and global research engagement.
www.lse.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
🎯 Teaching happiness: turning insight into real-world impact
At LSE, wellbeing teaching spans master’s courses like Happiness and Wellbeing for Policy, world-first Summer School options, dedicated seminars, as well as the MSc Behavioural Science Wellbeing Specialism.
Learn more ⬇️
At LSE, wellbeing teaching spans master’s courses like Happiness and Wellbeing for Policy, world-first Summer School options, dedicated seminars, as well as the MSc Behavioural Science Wellbeing Specialism.
Learn more ⬇️
🌠 Today we brought together our current AKO Master’s Scholars for a lovely lunch. Meeting such a diverse and inspiring group of students was a highlight & we can’t wait to see where their LSE journey takes them!
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🎓 Meet last year’s scholars buff.ly/mMnv7pD
ℹ️ About the scholarships buff.ly/bBierfM
🎓 Meet last year’s scholars buff.ly/mMnv7pD
November 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🌠 Today we brought together our current AKO Master’s Scholars for a lovely lunch. Meeting such a diverse and inspiring group of students was a highlight & we can’t wait to see where their LSE journey takes them!
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🎓 Meet last year’s scholars buff.ly/mMnv7pD
ℹ️ About the scholarships buff.ly/bBierfM
🎓 Meet last year’s scholars buff.ly/mMnv7pD
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Rather than follow our instincts, there's a more constructive way to understand and respond to hypocrisy. Join "The Hypocrisy Trap" author @mhallsworth.bsky.social at @lsepbs.bsky.social next week on Wednesday, Nov. 19th, when he will discuss tools for moving from outrage to outcomes:
The Hypocrisy Trap with Dr Michael Hallsworth
Dr Hallsworth will explore how the "hypocrisy trap" — our relentless drive to expose inconsistency — either breeds more hypocrisy or exhausts our belief in shared standards altogether.
www.lse.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Rather than follow our instincts, there's a more constructive way to understand and respond to hypocrisy. Join "The Hypocrisy Trap" author @mhallsworth.bsky.social at @lsepbs.bsky.social next week on Wednesday, Nov. 19th, when he will discuss tools for moving from outrage to outcomes:
🚀 Thinking about accelerating your career with behavioural science?
Join us for an online information session to learn everything you need to know about our world-leading Executive MSc Behavioural Science.
📅 25 Nov
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Join us for an online information session to learn everything you need to know about our world-leading Executive MSc Behavioural Science.
📅 25 Nov
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Executive MSc Behavioural Science
Taught by world-leading behavioural science experts, our Executive MSc Behavioural Science combines rigorous academic training with practical insights.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
🚀 Thinking about accelerating your career with behavioural science?
Join us for an online information session to learn everything you need to know about our world-leading Executive MSc Behavioural Science.
📅 25 Nov
🕐 1pm GMT
📍 Zoom
✍️ Sign up: lse.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Join us for an online information session to learn everything you need to know about our world-leading Executive MSc Behavioural Science.
📅 25 Nov
🕐 1pm GMT
📍 Zoom
✍️ Sign up: lse.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📣 We're hiring: Assistant Professor in Psychological & Behavioural Science of Sustainability 🌱
This exciting role sits within PBS and contributes to the Global School of Sustainability (GSoS) under the Building Sustainable Societies theme.
⏳ Apply by 25 Jan
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This exciting role sits within PBS and contributes to the Global School of Sustainability (GSoS) under the Building Sustainable Societies theme.
⏳ Apply by 25 Jan
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November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
📣 We're hiring: Assistant Professor in Psychological & Behavioural Science of Sustainability 🌱
This exciting role sits within PBS and contributes to the Global School of Sustainability (GSoS) under the Building Sustainable Societies theme.
⏳ Apply by 25 Jan
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This exciting role sits within PBS and contributes to the Global School of Sustainability (GSoS) under the Building Sustainable Societies theme.
⏳ Apply by 25 Jan
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Our lives are full of accusations of hypocrisy, yet little seems to change. Join "The Hypocrisy Trap" author @mhallsworth.bsky.social at @lsepbs.bsky.social on Wednesday, Nov. 19th, where he will discuss tools for moving from outrage to outcomes with Professor @liamdelaney2025.bsky.social:
The Hypocrisy Trap with Dr Michael Hallsworth
Dr Hallsworth will explore how the "hypocrisy trap" — our relentless drive to expose inconsistency — either breeds more hypocrisy or exhausts our belief in shared standards altogether.
www.lse.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Our lives are full of accusations of hypocrisy, yet little seems to change. Join "The Hypocrisy Trap" author @mhallsworth.bsky.social at @lsepbs.bsky.social on Wednesday, Nov. 19th, where he will discuss tools for moving from outrage to outcomes with Professor @liamdelaney2025.bsky.social:
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🧠 Michael Muthukrishna @michael.muthukrishna.com, professor of Economic Psychology at LSE @lsepbs.bsky.social, explores our “collective brain.” Unlike other animals, humans build on cultural knowledge, enabling us to solve new challenges together.
www.joinexpeditions.com/exps/1266
#PLPEXPeditions
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#PLPEXPeditions
What makes us human ?
One of the enduring questions for humanity is what makes humans so different from other animals. The answer to that question is that we discovered a new source of information to guide our behavior tha...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
🧠 Michael Muthukrishna @michael.muthukrishna.com, professor of Economic Psychology at LSE @lsepbs.bsky.social, explores our “collective brain.” Unlike other animals, humans build on cultural knowledge, enabling us to solve new challenges together.
www.joinexpeditions.com/exps/1266
#PLPEXPeditions
www.joinexpeditions.com/exps/1266
#PLPEXPeditions
🌿 We’re hiring! Assistant Professor in Social Psychology / Environmental Psychology 🌿
The successful candidate will join our world-leading community of scholars & contribute to teaching across our programmes, including the MSc Societal and Environmental Psychology.
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The successful candidate will join our world-leading community of scholars & contribute to teaching across our programmes, including the MSc Societal and Environmental Psychology.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🌿 We’re hiring! Assistant Professor in Social Psychology / Environmental Psychology 🌿
The successful candidate will join our world-leading community of scholars & contribute to teaching across our programmes, including the MSc Societal and Environmental Psychology.
🔗 buff.ly/hamafbo
The successful candidate will join our world-leading community of scholars & contribute to teaching across our programmes, including the MSc Societal and Environmental Psychology.
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🎓 What happens when a seasoned professional becomes a student again?
In a new post for the PBS blog, Mark Robinson reflects on his return to university and his experience studying for an MSc in Organisational and Social Psychology as a mature student.
In a new post for the PBS blog, Mark Robinson reflects on his return to university and his experience studying for an MSc in Organisational and Social Psychology as a mature student.
Not better or worse, just different - LSE Psychological & Behavioural Science
What’s it like to go back to university after a long and successful career? In this post, Mark Robinson reflects on his return to university and his experience studying for an MSc in Organisational…
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November 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
🎓 What happens when a seasoned professional becomes a student again?
In a new post for the PBS blog, Mark Robinson reflects on his return to university and his experience studying for an MSc in Organisational and Social Psychology as a mature student.
In a new post for the PBS blog, Mark Robinson reflects on his return to university and his experience studying for an MSc in Organisational and Social Psychology as a mature student.
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Come and work with my wonderful colleagues @lsepbs.bsky.social!
Assistant Professor in Social #Psychology / Environmental Psychology
#AcademicSky
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Assistant Professor in Social #Psychology / Environmental Psychology
#AcademicSky
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November 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Come and work with my wonderful colleagues @lsepbs.bsky.social!
Assistant Professor in Social #Psychology / Environmental Psychology
#AcademicSky
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Assistant Professor in Social #Psychology / Environmental Psychology
#AcademicSky
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NEW✨ Is there a better way to organise the global economy?
Why We’re Getting Poorer: A Realist’s Guide to the Economy and How we fix it by Cahal Moran @lsepbs.bsky.social @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social reviewed by Vamika Goel.
Why We’re Getting Poorer: A Realist’s Guide to the Economy and How we fix it by Cahal Moran @lsepbs.bsky.social @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social reviewed by Vamika Goel.
Is there a better way to organise the global economy? - LSE Review of Books
Why We’re Getting Poorer by Cahal Moran critiques the inequality of the global economy & proposes alternative policies to make things fairer & more sustainable.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
NEW✨ Is there a better way to organise the global economy?
Why We’re Getting Poorer: A Realist’s Guide to the Economy and How we fix it by Cahal Moran @lsepbs.bsky.social @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social reviewed by Vamika Goel.
Why We’re Getting Poorer: A Realist’s Guide to the Economy and How we fix it by Cahal Moran @lsepbs.bsky.social @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social reviewed by Vamika Goel.
Alex Gillespie & Brady Wagoner extend the concept of “looping effects”, where scientific classifications change the people classified, to psychological theories.
Traditionally seen as destabilising or problematic, looping effects, the authors argue, are essential & valuable.
Traditionally seen as destabilising or problematic, looping effects, the authors argue, are essential & valuable.
The looping effects of psychological theories: From anomaly to opportunity - Alex Gillespie, Brady Wagoner, 2025
Looping effects were introduced by philosopher Ian Hacking to refer to the two-way interactive relationship between scientific classifications and the people cl...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Alex Gillespie & Brady Wagoner extend the concept of “looping effects”, where scientific classifications change the people classified, to psychological theories.
Traditionally seen as destabilising or problematic, looping effects, the authors argue, are essential & valuable.
Traditionally seen as destabilising or problematic, looping effects, the authors argue, are essential & valuable.
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'We are literally part of something bigger than ourselves.'
@michael.muthukrishna.com, professor of economic psychology @lsepbs.bsky.social, reflects on human evolution, culture, and what makes for a meaningful life.
www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4627
@michael.muthukrishna.com, professor of economic psychology @lsepbs.bsky.social, reflects on human evolution, culture, and what makes for a meaningful life.
www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4627
November 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
'We are literally part of something bigger than ourselves.'
@michael.muthukrishna.com, professor of economic psychology @lsepbs.bsky.social, reflects on human evolution, culture, and what makes for a meaningful life.
www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4627
@michael.muthukrishna.com, professor of economic psychology @lsepbs.bsky.social, reflects on human evolution, culture, and what makes for a meaningful life.
www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4627
📘 Our lives are full of accusations of hypocrisy — against politicians, companies, and each other. Yet despite this noise, little seems to change. Join us for this talk on 19 Nov where @mhallsworth.bsky.social & @liamdelaney2025.bsky.social will discuss Michael's recent book 'The Hypocrisy Trap'.
The Hypocrisy Trap with Dr Michael Hallsworth
Dr Hallsworth will explore how the "hypocrisy trap" — our relentless drive to expose inconsistency — either breeds more hypocrisy or exhausts our belief in shared standards altogether.
www.lse.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
📘 Our lives are full of accusations of hypocrisy — against politicians, companies, and each other. Yet despite this noise, little seems to change. Join us for this talk on 19 Nov where @mhallsworth.bsky.social & @liamdelaney2025.bsky.social will discuss Michael's recent book 'The Hypocrisy Trap'.
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For anyone interested in #psychology, #research assessment and evaluation, how the expert panel rated research submitted to #REF2021 - and especially the fate of #qualitative research - our article in Cogent Psychology is #OpenAccess (link in next post).
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October 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
For anyone interested in #psychology, #research assessment and evaluation, how the expert panel rated research submitted to #REF2021 - and especially the fate of #qualitative research - our article in Cogent Psychology is #OpenAccess (link in next post).
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"For any patient voice to have impact, there has to be listening" Prof Alex Gillespie. @lsepbs.bsky.social Fascinating research chat going on here. If you would like to watch our previous research chats, follow this link 👀https://www.careopinion.org.uk/info/research-chats #Coconf25
Care Opinion research chats | Care Opinion
Welcome to our research chats: each one a half-hour, informal, online conversation with a…
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October 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"For any patient voice to have impact, there has to be listening" Prof Alex Gillespie. @lsepbs.bsky.social Fascinating research chat going on here. If you would like to watch our previous research chats, follow this link 👀https://www.careopinion.org.uk/info/research-chats #Coconf25
LSE Research Showcase: Learning from complaints in organisations with Dr Tom Reader.
Open to LSE staff, students, alumni and their visitors, and prospective LSE students.
🗓️ Tuesday 4 November 2025
🕚 11-11.30am
📍 Shaw Library, Old Building
Learn more and sign up ⬇️
Open to LSE staff, students, alumni and their visitors, and prospective LSE students.
🗓️ Tuesday 4 November 2025
🕚 11-11.30am
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Learning from complaints in organisations
Most organisations receive complaints from their end-users and stakeholders, and this feedback can be essential for both correcting problems and driving innovation. However, many organisations…
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October 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
LSE Research Showcase: Learning from complaints in organisations with Dr Tom Reader.
Open to LSE staff, students, alumni and their visitors, and prospective LSE students.
🗓️ Tuesday 4 November 2025
🕚 11-11.30am
📍 Shaw Library, Old Building
Learn more and sign up ⬇️
Open to LSE staff, students, alumni and their visitors, and prospective LSE students.
🗓️ Tuesday 4 November 2025
🕚 11-11.30am
📍 Shaw Library, Old Building
Learn more and sign up ⬇️
🎭 Can behavioural science and theatre join forces to tackle corruption?
Paulius Yamin, Sergejus Muravjovas & Dalton Maggs combined Legislative Theatre with Installation Theory to test how performance and behavioural insights might reshape anti-corruption strategies in healthcare.
Paulius Yamin, Sergejus Muravjovas & Dalton Maggs combined Legislative Theatre with Installation Theory to test how performance and behavioural insights might reshape anti-corruption strategies in healthcare.
Using theatre and behavioural science to rethink anti-corruption interventions - LSE Psychological & Behavioural Science
What happens when you infuse the Legislative Theatre with the Installation Theory and address bribery in healthcare? In their blog post, LSE alumnus Paulius Yamin, Sergejus Muravjovas, and Dalton Magg...
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October 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🎭 Can behavioural science and theatre join forces to tackle corruption?
Paulius Yamin, Sergejus Muravjovas & Dalton Maggs combined Legislative Theatre with Installation Theory to test how performance and behavioural insights might reshape anti-corruption strategies in healthcare.
Paulius Yamin, Sergejus Muravjovas & Dalton Maggs combined Legislative Theatre with Installation Theory to test how performance and behavioural insights might reshape anti-corruption strategies in healthcare.
Safety isn’t just about speaking up — it’s about how others listen. Alyssa Pandolfo, Tom Reader & Alex Gillespie introduce EARS: a new tool for coding real-world safety listening behaviours in conversations before aviation crashes and near misses.
Frontiers | The Ecological Assessment of Responses to Speaking-up tool—development and reliability testing of a method for coding safety listening behavior in naturalistic conversations
IntroductionSafety communication is crucial for accident aversion across industries. While researchers often focus on encouraging concern-raising (‘safety vo...
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October 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Safety isn’t just about speaking up — it’s about how others listen. Alyssa Pandolfo, Tom Reader & Alex Gillespie introduce EARS: a new tool for coding real-world safety listening behaviours in conversations before aviation crashes and near misses.