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Raja Lala about his Faculty Club membership.

In this project we follow teens over an extended period of time and document changes in how they perceive and pursue their goals and how this affects their well-being.

The corona pandemic has challenged behavioral scientists with important questions about when and how people are able and willing to change their behavior to stop spreading the virus.

In this project we examine public support for COVID-19 behavioral measures in the general public.

A reduction of meat and dairy consumption is urgent in view of reducing CO2 emissions and achieving a sustainable and viable planet.

The Self-Regulation Lab is involved in several research projects on nudging, a novel approach to behavior change in health and consumer settings.

Projects that will impact the food environment in such a way that it will support and tempt people to make more healthy and sustainable food choices.

To what extent do people need to acknowledge a discrepancy between their current state and their future state to get into action?

By studying procrastination and its precursors we gain more insight into processes that can impact people’s goal pursuit.

The Self regulation Lab has on ongoing collaboration with the City of Utrecht and community center 'Nieuw Welgelegen'.

Project about "nudges": interventions in which we make use of the automatic processes that guide eating behavior to steer people into the healthy directions.

The WINK project investigates the merits of nudging as a promising and innovative approach to public health and welfare.

In this project we investigate whether offering more healthy and tasty snacks can affect our food choices, so that the healthy choice becomes easier.

Research on the long term effectiveness of nudges in real life in terms of health behaviors and health outcomes.

How can negative emotions serve as justification for self-regulation failure? Emotions as a license to eat.

Results of this current study will allow us to determine to what extent habit formation may enhance self-control.

The program will result in the formulation of rules to design effective nudges that help to make the healthy choice the easy choice.

Description of porject on Using Multi-Agent Systems for Simulating Online Social Network Influence on Urban Planning.

A selection of projects affiliated to Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ's strategic theme Institutions for Open Societies.

The Self-Regulation Lab is involved in health psychology courses at undergraduate and (research) master level.