Ivo Vlaev

Datos Biográficos

ID383607
NOMBREIvo Vlaev
NOMBRESIvo
APELLIDOVlaev
FIRMAVLAEV I
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Warwick
ORCID0000-0002-3218-0144
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS42
TOTAL DE CITAS116
TOTAL COMO AUTOR42
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2006
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H5

  • Heritage-sensitive interventions to support Indigenous peoples’ forest conservation

    Open AccessMarco J Haenssgen, Navaporn Sunanlikanon et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2026

    Global conservation policies increasingly recognize the vital role of local and Indigenous communities in ecosystem protection, but mechanisms to support such communities’ livelihoods in a conservation context remain limited. Based on participatory engagement with diverse highland communities in the northern Thai tropics, we co-designed a highland origin label with the intention to alleviate Indigenous livelihood pressures. This study assessed wh…

  • Decision-making about bariatric and cosmetic medical tourism from countries with universal healthcare

    Open AccessBeth Nichol, Devashish Ray et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2026

    Background A growing number of people are travelling abroad for medical treatments (known as medical tourism; MT), driven by globalisation of the healthcare market. Medical tourists from countries with universal healthcare strain resources when returning with complications which require aftercare or further treatment. This rapid systematic review synthesised literature on decision-making of medical tourists, focusing on cosmetic and bariatric MT …

  • Behavioural Insights in Action

    Open AccessYasen Dimitrov, Velina Hristova et al.ARTICLEBehavioural Public Policy2026Referencias: 2

    This study examines whether behaviourally informed training can improve the effectiveness of phone-based tax debt collection in a public-sector setting. In collaboration with the Bulgarian National Revenue Agency, we implemented a two-day training programme for call centre agents focused on persuasion, negotiation and behavioural influence techniques derived from behavioural science and nudge theory. The impact of the intervention is assessed usi…

  • Behavioral intervention to increase honest responses using pledges

    Open AccessVelina Hristova, Kelly Ann Schmidtke et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2025

    Honest reporting is essential for maintaining trust and efficiency in various domains, including volunteer recruitment. However, individuals often misrepresent their qualifications due to social pressures or incentives to appear more suitable. This study investigates whether an honesty pledge can enhance truthful self-reporting in a high-stakes volunteer application process. Using a randomized controlled trial with 12,388 applicants for the FIFA …

  • Reducing littering in the UK

    Open AccessJulia Kolodko, Karan Arora et al.ARTICLEBehavioural Public Policy2025Referencias: 4

    Littering involves throwing away waste in places not designated for it, harming the environment. This study introduces a strategy to encourage more use of Littergram, an app designed to fight littering. Littergram allows users to photograph litter and share these images publicly, alerting local councils to clean up the waste. The study aimed to increase user engagement with Littergram by implementing an intervention designed using the Behaviour C…

  • Unpaid care work for the elderly in Thailand

    Open AccessMinh Tam Bui, Ivo Vlaev et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2025Referencias: 8

  • Identifying and overcoming barriers and facilitators to blood donation in young adults using the theoretical domains frameworks

    Open AccessVelina Hristova, Freya Mills et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2025Referencias: 48

    This study applied the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) to identify barriers and facilitators to blood donation among young adults in the UK. A total of 195 individuals (aged 18-29) completed an online survey covering 14 TDF domains, with non-donors offered the chance to register as donors. Binary logistic regression analysis revealed that Knowledge, Beliefs about capabilities and Emotion were the most significant predictors of current donatio…

  • Patients' subjective well-being

    Open AccessHenry A Lee, Neo Poon et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2025Referencias: 32

    It is commonly suggested that patients' subjective well-being (SWB) can be affected by pre-treatment conditions and treatment experiences, and hence SWB can be used to measure and improve healthcare quality. With data collected in a hospital in the UK ( N = 446), we investigated the determinants of patients' SWB and evaluated its use in healthcare research. Our findings showed strong relationships between pre-treatment conditions and patients' SW…

  • Exploring personality correlates of falsification of Covid-19 lateral flow tests through vignettes

    Open AccessDevashish Ray, Raenhha Dhami et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2025Referencias: 56

    Regular testing using rapid antigen lateral flow tests (LFTs) was an important prevention strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, falsification of home LFTs was a concern. Using a large quota-representative sample of adults ( n = 1295) in England, we conducted a vignette survey consisting of four hypothetical scenarios of LFT falsification behaviours (FBs) to examine whether prosocial personality traits were associated with attitudes towa…

  • Analysis of music-exposure interventions for impacting prosocial behaviour via behaviour change techniques and mechanisms of action

    Open AccessAikaterini Grimani, Alexander Moog et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2024

    The aim of the study is to evaluate the interventions examining music exposure’s effects on prosocial behaviour, to identify the behaviour change techniques (BCTs) through which they change it, and to examine the mechanisms of action (MoAs) that mediate the relationship between music exposure and prosocial behaviour. The review identified 15 research articles, comprising 19 relevant studies. The results revealed that, though many of the included …

  • How do emotions respond to outcome values and influence choice

    Open AccessAikaterini Grimani, Ayse Yemiscigil et al.ARTICLEPsychological Research2024

    Emotions powerfully, predictably, and pervasively influence decision making. The risk-as-feelings hypothesis states that two kinds of emotions are important in decision-making, anticipatory emotions and anticipated emotions. We empirically investigated whether and how anticipatory and anticipated emotions may change as a function of outcome values and whether anticipatory or anticipated emotions may explain the influence of outcome values on risk…

  • Healthcare Professionals' Responses to Complaints

    Open AccessVivi Antonopoulou, Paulina M Schenk et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2024

    Background Patient complaints in healthcare settings can provide feedback for monitoring and improving healthcare services. Behavioural responses to complaints (e.g., talking or apologising to a patient) can influence the trajectory of a complaint for instance, whether a complaint is escalated or not. We aimed to explore healthcare professional (HCP) and service user (patient and carer) views on complaints' management and the perceived factors in…

  • The PHEM-B toolbox of methods for incorporating the influences on Behaviour into Public Health Economic Models

    Open AccessHazel Squires, Michael P Kelly et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    This is the first attempt to rigorously and coherently propose methods to incorporate the influences on behaviour into health economic models of public health interventions. It may not always be feasible or necessary to model the influences on behaviour explicitly, but it is essential to develop an understanding of the key influences. Changing behaviour and maintaining that behaviour change could have different influences; thus, there could be be…

  • Nudging tax filing through text message combinations

    Open AccessMariam Abdelnabi, Nazish Afraz et al.ARTICLEBehavioural Public Policy2024Referencias: 3

    Developing countries, with limited monitoring and auditing capabilities, face significant tax evasion issues. This study examines the impact of various text message combinations on promoting tax compliance, particularly in encouraging service providers to submit monthly sales tax returns in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. A randomised controlled trial involved 18,087 service providers and tested three types of SMS reminders. These included a basic …

  • Evaluation of an organisational-level monetary incentive to promote the health and wellbeing of workers in small and medium-sized enterprises

    Open AccessLena Al-Khudairy, Yasmin Akram et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    We conducted an independent evaluation on the effectiveness of an organisational-level monetary incentive to encourage small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to improve employees’ health and wellbeing. This was A mixed-methods cluster randomised trial with four arms: high monetary incentive, low monetary incentive, and two no monetary incentive controls (with or without baseline measurements to examine ‘reactivity’ The consequence of particpan…

  • The impact of conservation and land use transitions on the livelihoods of indigenous peoples

    Open AccessMarco J Haenssgen, Prasit Leepreecha et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2023

  • The critical factors in producing high quality and policy-relevant research

    Open AccessJan Lecouturier, Ivo Vlaev et al.ARTICLEEvidence & Policy2023Citada por: 2Referencias: 3

    Findings highlight the positive impact of strong evidence-provider/user relationships and the importance of governments' commitment to co-produced research programmes to address policy problems and transparency in the dissemination of methods and findings. From the findings we have created a framework, 'STEPS' (Sharing, Transparency, Engagement, Partnership, Strong relationships), of five recommendations for units working with policymakers. These…

  • A Crossover Randomized Controlled Trial of Priming Interventions to Increase Hand Hygiene at Ward Entrances

    Open AccessKelly Ann Schmidtke, Navneet Aujla et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    BACKGROUND: Research conducted in the United States suggests that two primes (citrus smells and pictures of a person's eyes) can increase hand gel dispenser use on the day they are introduced in hospital. The current study, conducted at a hospital in the United Kingdom, evaluated the effectiveness of these primes, both in isolation and in combination, at the entry way to four separate wards, over a longer duration than the previous work. METHODS:…

  • The effects of feedback valance and progress monitoring on goal striving

    Open AccessLeah Borovoi, Kelly Ann Schmidtke et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2022

    The current paper explores how people’s goal strivings are influenced by feedback (positively valenced vs. negatively valenced), progress monitoring (remaining vs. accumulated) and goal specificity (vague vs. specific). Two laboratory-based experiments were performed. Experiment 1 reveals that, after receiving positively valenced feedback, participants who focus on accumulated progress show larger boosts in persistence than participants who focus…

  • Exploring the Use of “Nudges” to Improve HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing Among Men Who Have Sex with Men

    Open AccessEi T Aung, Christopher K Fairley et al.ARTICLEArchives of Sexual Behavior2022Referencias: 30

    Behavioral economics and its applied branch “nudging” can improve individual choices in various health care settings. However, there is a paucity of research using nudges to improve regular testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The study examined which reminder system and message type men who have sex with men (MSM) preferred to remind them to undergo regular 3-monthly HIV and STI testing. A cross-sectional survey stud…

  • Choice of methods can determine which behavioral determinates are identified for targeting in future behavior change interventions

    Open AccessUmar Taj, Kelly Ann Schmidtke et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2022Referencias: 25

    When developing a behavioral intervention, formative research should be conducted to determine which behavioral barriers and facilitators to target. This is often done using qualitative interviews, but quantitative surveys may also be used. The current study examines the consequences of applying descriptive (rank order and t-tests) versus predictive (regression) quantitative analyses on intervention development, specifically for increasing antibi…

  • Testing a multicomponent lifestyle intervention for combatting childhood obesity

    Open AccessIvo Vlaev, Michael J Taylor et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02972164 , November 23, 2016

  • The Fragmentation of Vision

    Nick Chater, Ivo VlaevARTICLELeonardo2021Referencias: 1

  • Social Care Insurance

    Open AccessIvo Vlaev, Trishna Uttamlal et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2020

    There is not currently a developed market for long-term social care insurance in England. Policymakers are interested in what behavioral influences should be considered in the design of insurance products for long-term social care to increase uptake. This review describes the behavioral factors that might be barriers or facilitators of uptake and could be considered in future policy solutions. Behavioral factors include psychological capabilities…

  • A Feasibility and Acceptability Trial of Social Cognitive Therapy in Early Psychosis Delivered Through a Virtual World

    Open AccessAndrew Thompson, Farah Elahi et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2020

    ISRCTN, identifier 41443166