Lars Tummers
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Lars Tummers
@tummers.bsky.social
👨‍🎓 Professor, Utrecht University.
Before: Tilburg, Erasmus, Berkeley, Oxford.

✍️ Writes about government-citizen relationships and behavior change.
👉 What you’ll gain:

- Learn concepts from behavioral public administration, behavioral economics, and political psychology
- Learn tools to assess effectiveness, ethics & acceptance of interventions
- Practical ways to apply in your PhD research
September 24, 2025 at 7:15 AM
A great study, Sheeling! Glad to see it out and a top journal, whose editors aren't afraid to publish non-results @bppjournal.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Congrats, Fabiola!
July 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Gefeliciteerd Ingrid! Goed dat wetenschappers als jij buiten de ivoren toren van de wetenschap stappen en in dialoog gaan met de maatschappij.
June 27, 2025 at 6:16 AM
In a set of studies, we found that:

- Small financial rewards have no effect. That's wasted money.

- When the offered amount is increased, behavior changes, although only marginally.

Hence, money is not always the best motivator.

With @sebjilke.bsky.social in @pareview.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Great news! Public leadership is now more important than ever.
April 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
There are times leaders cannot avoid control. In times of intense crisis, control is helpful, as employees look to leaders for direction.

@pmreview.bsky.social @henricovanroekel.bsky.social
Empowering leadership in crisis: a natural experiment
Existing research suggests that empowering leadership enhances employee well-being, but context-specific empirical studies in the public sector remain scarce. We investigated whether this positive ...
www.tandfonline.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:17 AM
On autonomy & prosociality:

Donald, J. N. et al. (2021). Paths to the light and dark sides of human nature: A meta-analytic review of the prosocial benefits of autonomy and the antisocial costs of control. Psychological Bulletin, 147(9), 921.
APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.org
April 24, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Thanks! Looking forward to contribute to further strengthen our public management field.
April 5, 2025 at 7:06 AM