DR DARIO KPRAN
London School of Economics and Political Science
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Dario Krpan is a behavioural scientist who was trained at the intersection of social and cognitive psychology. His main research interest lies in understanding transformative behavioural change in relation to sustainability and new technology. That is, he focuses on understanding significant and difficult to achieve shifts in individual actions that, when widely adopted, could profoundly alter societal functioning to address pressing challenges like the climate crisis and the technological revolution. Currently at the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at LSE, Dario is a proponent of multidisciplinary research, and he is interested in combining methodologies and theoretical approaches from disciplines such as economics, sociology, philosophy, and physics with psychology to answer the research questions that interest him.
Selected Publications
Basso, F., & Krpan, D. (2023). The WISER framework of behavioural change interventions for mindful human flourishing. The Lancet Planetary Health, 7(2), e106-e108.
Krpan, D., Booth, J. E., & Damien, A. (2023). The positive–negative–competence (PNC) model of psychological responses to representations of robots. Nature Human Behaviour, 7(11), 1933-1954.
Basso, F., & Krpan, D. (2022). Measuring the transformative utopian impulse for planetary health in the age of the Anthropocene: A multi-study scale development and validation. The Lancet Planetary Health, 6(3), e230-e242.
Krpan, D., & Basso, F. (2021). Keep degrowth or go rebirth? Regulatory focus theory and the support for a sustainable downscaling of production and consumption. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 74, 101586.
Krpan, D., & Houtsma, N. (2020). To veg or not to veg? The impact of framing on vegetarian food choice. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 67, 101391.
Work w/ CUSP
Within CUSP, Dario contributes to the theme “Social and Psychological Understandings of the Good Life”. The main focus is to understand the key psychological principles that can make certain environmentally sustainable activities enjoyable and meaningful, to eventually help individuals more easily engage in such activities and live well with less. In this context, he considers how personality shapes people’s ability to live well with less, and how the match between different activities and personality can help people achieve a more sustainable lifestyle.