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  Research

Research Interests

• Pro-environmental behavior
  
• Health behavior
• Judgement & decision-making 

Publications & Working Papers

• Flecke, S. L., Schwaiger, R., Huber, J., Kirchler, M. (2023). Nature Experiences and Pro-Environmental Behavior: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial. (2nd revision), Journal of Environmental Psychology.
  
  
• Bachler, S., Flecke, S. L., Huber, J., Kirchler, M., Schwaiger, R. (2023). Carbon Pricing, Carbon Dividends and Cooperation: Experimental Evidence. (Conditional acceptance), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
  
  
• Papakonstantinou, T., Flecke, S. L., Edmunds, C., Cross, R., Tran, A., Gold, N. (2023). The Effectiveness of Social Norms Interventions for Improving Health Behaviours: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. (Revise & resubmit), Nature Human Behaviour. (Paper available upon request)
  
  
• Flecke, S. L., Aparicio, E., Malthouse, E., (2024). Encouraging people to set lower personal carbon budgets: anchoring is
  more effective than social reference groups. (Under review), Environment and Behavior. (Paper available upon request)
  
  
• Flecke, S. L. and Bachler, S., (2024). Conducting Real-Time Interactive Experiments on Prolific: A Guide for Researchers. (Under review), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance. (Paper available upon request)
  
  
• Hybel, A. R. and Flecke, S. L. (2014) John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and the Vietnam War in Hybel, A.R. US Foreign Policy Decision-Making from Kennedy to Obama: Responses to International Challenges (pp.17-53). Palgrave Macmillan, New York.

Work in Progress

• The Private Solution Problem: A 34-Nation Experimental Study. Joint with the Collective
  Decision-Making and Culture Lab (2024)
  
  
• Determinants of Early Contributions to the Public Good: Evidence from Around the World. Joint with Ertl, A., Kiss, H., Malthouse, E., Schwaiger, R. and the Collective Decision-Making and Culture Lab (2024)
  
  
• Open World Video Games and Environmental Behavior: Experimental Evidence. Joint with Rene Schwaiger and Tobias Greitemeyer (2024)
  

Awards, Grants and Research Funding

• 2023 Kaiserschild Advance: EUR 10,000 research grant for young researchers in Economic and Social Sciences
• 2022- 2025 Doctoral research funding, University of Innsbruck and the Austrian Science Fund  (FWF)
• 2011 Mellon Foundation: USD 2,000 foreign language research grant   

  Education

2023 - present	PhD, Psychology, University of Innsbruck
2022 - present	PhD, Economics, University of Innsbruck
2019 - 2020	MSc, Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University College London, UK
2009 - 2013	BA, Economics and International Relations, Connecticut College, USA