Hello, World.

Hi! I am Lasmi.

I am currently pursuing a PhD to better understand the complexity of human behaviours. Human behaviours are interesting and complex. We can be selfish, but also altruistic. Kind to each other, but also hate the other. Problems in society often stem from wanting to stay in the status quo and to avoid unfamiliarity. Sometimes, when society gets stuck in a problem, we need certain individuals to cold-start a change. I am interested in studying them, those whom I call change agents.

I am a researcher working at the intersection of behavioural science, computational social science, and network-based approaches to understanding human behaviour. My work focuses on how opinions, social norms and polarisation evolve within social systems, combining experimental methods, survey research, and data analysis. I am particularly interested in collective dynamics such as polarisation, conformity, trust, and institutional behaviour, and how individual decisions scale into societal patterns. Methodologically, I work with behavioural experiments (including online experimental platforms), quantitative analysis of social data, and modelling to study how cognitive and social processes interact.

I made this blog to archive my writings. There was a time when I devoted my time to journal everyday. I make use of the data to practice my data analysis skills in Excel, R, and Python for text and emotions data (see more on Projects and Learnings).

Skills

Some highlights of what I did other than working…

• run (ran my first marathon in 2023 whilst being in the UK)
• illustrate (in pencil, digital, and watercolour, and sometimes Sheets see Artworks) funfact: the bird on this page was also my drawing!
• journal on how my years went for 3 consecutive years (see Projects and Learnings)