Behavioral Sustainability Lab

    Jiaying Zhao, PhD, Associate Professor (she/her)

Principal Investigator

  Dr. Jiaying Zhao    (she/her, CV)


   Associate Professor

   UBC Sauder Distinguished Scholar


   Department of Psychology

   Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability

   University of British Columbia


   Faculty Affiliate, Stone Centre on Wealth and Income Inequality, UBC

   Faculty Affiliate, Center for Effective Global Action, UC Berkeley

   Invited Researcher, J-PAL North America, MIT



PhD Students

  Annie Lalande


  Research interests:

  Sustainable food choices, health behavior change


  Jade Radke


  Research interests:

  Climate action, reinforcement, happiness



Lab Alumni

  Dr. Brandon Tomm 

  Dr. Yu Luo  currently Senior Data Scientist at Health Canada

  Dr. Rumi Naito  currently Impact Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Specialist at Revalue Nature

  Lyra Shi, MA graduate 

  James Wu, MA graduate  currently a Ph.D. student at University of Toronto

  Dr. Ryan Dwyer  currently Senior Researcher at Happier Lives Institute

  Brynley Hanson-Wright, MA graduate  currently at Fisheries and Oceans Canada

  Dr. Ru Qi Yu  currently Assistant Professor of Psychology at East China Normal University

  Dr. Ivana Zelenika  currently at City of Vancouver

  Andrea Byfuglien, MA graduate  currently a PhD student at University of Oxford

  Katherine Cramer, MA graduate 

  Dr. Alejandra Echeverri  currently Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley (click here for her website)

  Anna Xiao Luo, MA graduate  a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University