Toward psychological and behavioural science of transformative behavioural change

Transformative behavioural change refers to 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.

Examples of this change can range from switching to plant-based diets to adopting degrowth practices (e.g., abandoning non-essential consumerism, embracing voluntary simplicity) to tackle climate change. In this talk, Dario will present his research on transformative behavioural change. This involves examining how personality shapes transformative change, understanding shifts toward socio-economic systems that require radical transformations of society, and exploring how to make behavioural interventions more transformative.