We are excited to announce a new interdisciplinary conference on basic and applied research that lays the scientific foundation for improving people’s lives by investigating prosocial behavior, personal growth, and behaviors that are harmful to others or society. We are calling this emerging transdisciplinary research area Life Improvement Science, or LIS for short. The inaugural LIS conference will be held online from June 9-13 2021. Everyone is welcome to participate for free. If you are interested, please register now.
The conference will feature invited talks on the most promising scientific approaches from motivation science, moral psychology, positive psychology, cognitive science, effective altruism, digital interventions, character education, social and personality psychology, coaching, wisdom scholarship, economics, sociology, and other relevant areas from some of the key researchers in these fields, such as Ken Sheldon, Fiery Cushman, Brian Little, William Fleeson, David Reinstein, Marina Milyavskaya, Isabel Thielmann, Kristjan Kristjansson, Igor Grossmann, Jonathan Passmore, and Kendall Bronk.
The conference will also give you the opportunity to participate in innovative, interactive events, such as collaboratively identifying the most important open questions for future research, and let a mind-matching algorithm choose a few interesting people for you to talk to at the conference. The conference also includes a collaborative process for determining which questions the behavioral sciences should prioritize to lay the scientific foundation for making the world a better place. You can vote on which questions are most important here or propose your own ideas here. The highest-rated questions will be discussed at the conference. As a sign of our appreciation for your contributions, we will raffle off 1 cash prize of $100 and 10 cash prizes of $10 each. Your chances of winning will increase with the number of votes you cast and the number of ideas you propose. Please be thoughtful because we will use your input to set the priorities of life improvement science.
We are looking forward to meeting you at the conference!