Action & Identity Lab
Studying the social and personality factors behind the personal decisions that lead to our health and well-being.
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Action & Identity Lab
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ABOUT OUR RESEARCH
Personal decisions have a lot to do with leading a happy and healthy life. The goal of our research is to understand the social and personality factors behind these decisions. Our approach is guided by theories that address the interplay of action and identity – where identity is examined as a cause, consequence, and sometimes an object to be shielded from our actions and decisions.
Projects in our lab take a contextualist perspective. They are designed to answer research questions about how personality or motivational characteristics translate into behaviours and decisions that may either help or harm well-being in specific situations. We use experimental and correlational research designs together with standardized tasks and multivariate statistical models to answer these questions.
Personal decisions have a lot to do with leading a happy and healthy life. The goal of our research is to understand the social and personality factors behind these decisions. Our approach is guided by theories that address the interplay of action and identity – where identity is examined as a cause, consequence, and sometimes an object to be shielded from our actions and decisions.
Projects in our lab take a contextualist perspective. They are designed to answer research questions about how personality or motivational characteristics translate into behaviours and decisions that may either help or harm well-being in specific situations. We use experimental and correlational research designs together with standardized tasks and multivariate statistical models to answer these questions.
