Lucia A Reisch

Biographic Data

ID1581846
NAMELucia A Reisch
GIVEN NAMESLucia A
FAMILY NAMEReisch
SIGNATUREREISCH L A
AFFILIATIONSCopenhagen Business School
ORCID0000-0002-5731-4209
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS52
TOTAL CITATIONS207
AUTHOR COUNT47
EDITOR COUNT5
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX7

  • Food System Through the Lens of a Circular Society

    Open AccessMohina Gandhi, Alice Pizzo et al.ARTICLEBusiness Strategy and the…2026

    Circular society (CS) conceptualises circularity as a multi‐level governance transformation involving the redistribution of authority, responsibility and coordination across socio‐institutional systems. Yet the concept remains insufficiently operationalised in empirical research. This study advances the empirical operationalisation of CS as a governance‐diagnostic framework within food systems. Through a transdisciplinary design, it combines a sc…

  • Informational nudges or incentives? A field experiment on vegetarian choices

    Open AccessAlice Pizzo, Jan M Bauer et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2026

    Food production and consumption are primary contributors to climate change. There is growing interest in behavioral interventions aimed at reducing emissions by promoting vegetarian choices. This pre-registered field experiment assesses the (relative) effectiveness of an informational nudge, a price intervention, and their combination on consumers' choices between meat-based and vegetarian food options. We analyze actual food choices at a public …

  • Nudging for climate-friendly diets in eating-out settings

    Xi Cao, Shang Xu et al.ARTICLEBritish Food Journal2026

    Purpose This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of behavioural interventions in reducing high-carbon food consumption in fast-food settings in a megacity in the Global South. Design/methodology/approach A real-world field experiment was conducted across four fast-food chain restaurants in Beijing over eight weeks, covering 51,232 lunch transactions. Using point-of-sale data and a difference-in-differences approach, the study assessed consum…

  • Assumptions about behaviour influence the policy preferences of public officials

    Open AccessMalte Dewies, Lee De‐wit et al.ARTICLEPublic Management Review2025

    Public officials often aim to change people’s behaviour to achieve policy goals. Policy design and behavioural perspectives suggest that individual factors such as officials’ assumptions about behaviour — or implicit theories — can influence officials’ policy choices. This pre-registered survey study examines how assumptions about cooperation, behavioural malleability, and self-control influence policy preferences among 1,015 public officials in …

  • Meta Bi

    Open AccessMalte Dewies, Lucia A ReischARTICLEBehavioural Public Policy2025Cited by: 1References: 26

    A lack of common terminology and shared understanding of behavioural interventions across academic disciplines and professional groups limits the multidisciplinary application of such interventions and our collective ability to share and compare their effects. The current study attempts to narrow this gap by developing a comprehensive classification system of nudges and similar behavioural interventions that can aid researchers and practitioners …

  • Stop, think, buy

    Open AccessMichelle Klotz, Dario Krpan et al.ARTICLEAppetite2025References: 85

    Diet-related diseases are a global health concern, prompting governments to implement population-wide dietary improvements. In the UK, the traffic light system (TLS) of nutritional labelling aims to guide healthier food choices. However, concerns have arisen about whether retailer price promotions may counteract positive effects of the TLS on diet. To address these concerns, in the present research we investigated the effects of the TLS and price…

  • Research Handbook on Nudges and Society

    Mazzocchi M, Biondi B et al.BOOKResearch Handbook on Nudges and…2023

    In this chapter, we review the evidence on how price policies can lead to unintended \nnegative or positive effects, with a focus on the behavioural explanation \nof the underlying mechanisms and the potential interaction with choice architecture \nactions.

  • Digitalization and Sustainability

    Open AccessTilman Santarius, Lina Dencik et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2023Cited by: 4References: 1

    The relation between digitalization and environmental sustainability is ambiguous. There is potential of various digital technologies to slow down the transgression of planetary boundaries. Yet resource and energy demand for digital hardware production and use of data-intensive applications is of substantial size. The world over, there is no comprehensive regulation that addresses opportunities and risks of digital technology for sustainability. …

  • Nudging more sustainable grocery purchases

    Open AccessJan M Bauer, Simon C Aarestrup et al.ARTICLETechnological Forecasting and…2022

  • Battle of the primes – The effect and interplay of health and hedonic primes on food choice

    Open AccessJan M Bauer, L N van der Laan et al.ARTICLEAppetite2022Cited by: 2References: 27

  • Associations Between Psychosocial Well-Being, Stressful Life Events and Emotion-Driven Impulsiveness in European Adolescents

    Open AccessStefanie Do, Juul M J Coumans et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2022References: 45

    Knowing the extent to which mental well-being and stressful life events during adolescence contribute to personality characteristics related to risk-taking behaviors, such as emotion-driven impulsiveness, is highly relevant for the development of health promotion measures. This study examined whether psychosocial well-being and different stressful life events are associated with emotion-driven impulsiveness. In total, 3,031 adolescents (52% girls…

  • Perspectives for sustainable consumption

    Open AccessMaría Victoria Ortiz, Lucia A Reisch et al.ARTICLEDesenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente2022

    This paper addresses some of the perceptions, beliefs, and experiences related to sustainable consumption habits of citizens of Córdoba (Argentina). We focus on three main areas of consumption: food, housing, and mobility. The study examines the discourses of 59 citizens in seven focus groups with seven to nine persons each. Six groups combine age ranges (18-29, 30-49, and 50-70 years old), socioeconomic status (high-medium and low-medium), and g…

  • Healthy eating in the wild

    Open AccessJan M Bauer, Kristian Steensen Nielsen et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2022Cited by: 4References: 73

    Across many parts of the world, people increasingly eat out-of-home. Simultaneously, many people strive to eat a healthier diet, but it remains unclear to what extent and how eating out helps or hinders people in achieving their dietary goals. The present study investigated how characteristics of the physical micro-environment in out-of-home food outlets (e.g., cafeterias, supermarkets, and restaurants) influence the healthiness of food choices a…

  • Verbraucherwissenschaften

    Open AccessPeter Kenning, Andreas Oehler et al.BOOKVerbraucherwissenschaften2021

  • Digitizing a sustainable future

    Open AccessLucia A Reisch, Lucas Joppa et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2021

  • Plant-Based By Default

    Open AccessLucia A Reisch, Cass R SunsteinARTICLEOne Earth2021

  • What do people want to know? Information avoidance and food policy implications

    Open AccessLucia A Reisch, Cass R Sunstein et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2021Cited by: 7References: 2

    What information would people like to have? What information would they prefer to avoid? How does the provision of information bear on welfare? And what does this mean for food policy? Representative surveys in eleven nations find that substantial percentages of people do not want to receive information even when it bears on health, sustainability, and consumer welfare. Nonetheless, substantial percentages of people also do want to receive that i…

  • Nudging healthier food choices in a cafeteria setting

    Open AccessJan M Bauer, Sabine Bietz et al.ARTICLEAppetite2021Cited by: 5References: 65

  • Improving Climate Change Mitigation Analysis

    Open AccessKristian Steensen Nielsen, Paul C Stern et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2020

  • The power of green defaults

    Open AccessMicha Kaiser, Manuela Bernauer et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2020Cited by: 19References: 6

    The present paper focuses on green defaults as demand-side policies supporting the uptake of renewable energy in Germany. It sets out to gain a better understanding of whether and for whom green electricity defaults work. The present study is one of the first to use a large-scale data set to investigate this question. We combine micro-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) covering private households (including a wealth of indivi…

  • The effect of smileys as motivational incentives on children’s fruit and vegetable choice, consumption and waste

    Open AccessWencke Gwozdz, Lucia A Reisch et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2020Cited by: 3References: 8

    To assess whether smiley stamps work as a motivational incentive to promote fruit and vegetable eating among children, we conducted a field experiment in ten primary schools in five European countries using one control and one treatment school per country. The six-week experiment was split into three two-week phases before, during and after the smiley was implemented. During the smiley phase, the children received a smiley stamp for choosing a po…

  • Association between variants of neuromedin U gene and taste thresholds and food preferences in European children

    Open AccessClaudio Grippi, Wolfgang Ahrens et al.ARTICLEAppetite2019References: 35

  • Emotion-driven impulsiveness but not decision-making ability and cognitive inflexibility predicts weight status in adults

    Open AccessJuul M J Coumans, Unna N Danner et al.ARTICLEAppetite2019References: 45

  • Trusting nudges? Lessons from an international survey

    Open AccessCass R Sunstein, Lucia A Reisch et al.ARTICLEJournal of European Public Policy2019Cited by: 31References: 32

    In the past decade, policymakers have increasingly used behaviourally informed policies, including ‘nudges,’ to produce desirable social outcomes. But do people actually endorse those policies? This study reports on nationally representative surveys in five countries (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, South Korea, and the US) carried out in 2017/2018. We investigate whether people in these countries approve of a list of 15 nudges regarding health, the e…

  • A worldwide consensus on nudging? Not quite, but almost

    Open AccessCass R Sunstein, Lucia A Reisch et al.ARTICLERegulation & Governance2018Cited by: 38References: 19

    Nudges are choice‐preserving interventions that steer people's behavior in specific directions while still allowing them to go their own way. Some nudges have been controversial, because they are seen as objectionably paternalistic. This study reports on nationally representative surveys in eight diverse countries, investigating what people actually think about nudges and nudging. The study covers Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, Russia, …