What We Say Versus What We Do with Kate Laffan

The Decision Corner

Kate Laffan, Marie Curie Fellow at University College Dublin, explains why we struggle to reach the goals we set for ourselves: the intention-behaviour gap. One of the ways this gap manifests is in our environmentally-conscious behaviour. We can work personally and collectively to better align our behaviours to our intentions, and make the world a little better off by doing so.

This podcast delves deep into changes we can bring about on an individual and organizational level to benefit the environment, including topics such as:

Key behaviours that we can change, such as meat consumption, air travel, and our housing

Reducing intention-behaviour gaps on the organizational level, through strategies that include prosocial incentives, green defaults, and decision aids

Creating change on an individual level through implementation intentions, monitoring, and reflection

Using COVID-19 induced changes in work environments as opportunities for behavioural change