Projects

Our research group is involved in different projects, ranging from projects with external parties like the Living Lab to institute projects that involves a multidisciplinary approach like Future Food. See the projects below and in the menu to discover more about some of the research projects currently being carried out by the Self-Regulation Lab.

Current projects

  • Emotional justification: a new perspective on emotional eating

    To what extent do people use their emotions as a license to eat?

  • Self-control

    How do habits develop over time, and how does habit formation relates to both trait and state self-control?

  • Supreme nudge

    Long term effectiveness of nudges in real life in terms of health behaviors and health outcomes.

  • Ten Years Up

    How do 16 year-olds view their future? What kind of personal goals do they consider important and feasible?

  • COVID-19 Research

    Our lab is involved in multiple corona projects.

  • COVID-19 Consortium

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

  • Protein Transition

    Ways to engage individuals with the protein transition with a focus on collective responsibility and system thinking.

  • Nudging

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

  • Food Environment

    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.

  • Self-Monitoring and Self-Licensing

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

  • Procrastination and Task Aversion

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

   

Project Archive

  • Hints

    About promoting healthy food choices, insight into how nudges work and ethical acceptability and impact of nudges on changing eating behaviour.

  • Nudgis

    Nudges and the role of social context, social awareness, real life contexts and more.

  • Food in motion

    Can offering more healthy and tasty snacks affect our food choices, so that the healthy choice becomes easier?

  • TEMPEST

    How may a public health approach and an individual-educational approach complement each other to encourage young people to adopt a healthy lifestyle?

  • WINK

    The merits of nudging as a promising and innovative approach to public health and welfare.