IAREP 2025 conference Behavioural Insights in Research and Policymaking June 17-20 in Tartu, Estonia
Leonhard Lades
Dear all,
The abstract submission deadline for the 2025 IAREP conference is on February 2. More information is below and even more details are available at https://iarep2025tartu.com/
The 49th IAREP conference will be held June 17-20, 2025, in the vibrant city of Tartu, Estonia, in the buildings of the University of Tartu (established in 1632) that bridge history with modern science. It is the time when the nights do not get dark and the university town is filled with graduation festivities.
This conference is an interdisciplinary meeting point of scholars who are interested in the intersection of economics and psychology, as well as sociology, anthropology, neuroscience, and political science. Researchers and policymakers are invited to attend the conference and share their evidence from developing and applying behavioural science to better understand wicked behavioural issues in various domains, such as health, climate, finances, and many others.
The conference programme includes:
- Distinguished keynote speakers – Anu Realo, Liam Delaney, Elisabeth Costa and Jaan Aru.
- Parallel tracks with themed sessions and presentations from behavioural scientists and nudge units from around the world
- Early Career Researcher workshop and poster session
- Social programme on three evenings, including a reception in the university museum, a river cruise in a wooden vessel, and dinner in AHHAA Science Centre
Important dates:
- Deadline for submitting extended abstracts and session proposals February 2
- Decision of acceptance by March 17
- Early bird registration until April 13
- The conference June 17-20
The topics include but are not limited to:
- Economic psychology
- Behavioural policy
- Behavioural economics
- Behavioural finance
- Ethics of behavioural interventions
- Judgment and decision making
- Happiness and wellbeing
- Bounded rationality, heuristics and biases
- AI in behavioural science research
- Sludge reduction
- Culture & cognitive biases
- Cognitive, social and personality psychology
- (Sustainable) consumer behaviour
- Emotions and decision making
- Experimental economics
- RCT-s and megastudies
- Fairness, inequality
- Intertemporal choice
- Risk and uncertainty
- Behavioural approaches to tackle polarization, international conflicts and security issues
- Entrepreneurial behaviour
- Financial literacy and behaviour
- Financial wellbeing
- Psychology of money
- Tax behaviour and psychology
- Household decision making
- Pro-environmental behaviour (PEB)
- Health (incl. mental health) behaviour
- Behavioural food policy
- Nudging organisational behaviour
For the call for papers, travel tips, conference fees and all other details, please see the conference website - iarep2025tartu.com