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Colloquium: Why Psychology should be at the heart of good public policy and what happens when it is not

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Psychology should be at the heart of good public policy – but often it is not. Many policy makers assume they know, because they are human and live in society, all they need to know about human behaviour. Or they assume that economic theory will provide all the critical insights necessary to underpin effective policy. As pointed out in the recent U.K. Parliament’s report on “Behaviour Change”, “Many of the goals to which governments aspire—such as bringing down levels of crime, reducing unemployment, increasing savings and meeting targets for carbon emissions—can be achieved only if people change their behaviour. Consequently, understanding how to change the behaviour of populations should be a concern for any government if it is to be successful”. However, systematic assessment of the relevant behaviour and the influences on such behaviour in advance of policy design is rare. While the application of psychology to real-world problems has often driven research in psychology, policy makers have not always made use of this literature and psychologists have not always communicated it in a usable form.
Speaker(s) Winthrop Professor Carmen Lawrence
Location Myers Street Lecture Theatre (2nd Floor), Myers Street Building
Contact W/Professor Stephan Lewandowsky <stephan.lewandowsky.uwa.edu.au>
Start Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:30
End Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:30
Submitted by Dianne Bettis <[email protected]>
Last Updated Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:35
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