Mona Joly
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Guest of the Research Group
Research fields
Social Psychology
Behavioural Science | Cognitive Science| Public Health
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Mona Joly is a research fellow at the WZB in the research group Health and Social Inequality. She holds a PhD in health psychology and focuses on the impact of socioeconomic inequalities on health behaviours using evolutionary behavioural theory, survey and qualitative data.
Since 2022 Visiting student at the Evolution & Social Cognition Group, Institut Jean Nicod, DEC, ENS-PSL (Paris, France)
06/2025 Successful defence of dissertation titled "Navigating Health and Mortality: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Health Disparities Through the Lens of Perceived Control and Family History" (summa cum laude)
2018 Master of Science in Cognitive Science - École Normale Supérieure (Paris, France). Thesis: "Female attractiveness, fertility and life history strategy".
2017-2018 Visiting Graduate Student, COMSTAR lab, Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, Newcastle University (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom).
2015 Bachelor of Science in Biology, speciality Physiology and Cognitive Neuroscience - Aix Marseille University (Marseille, France).
Selected Publications
Nettle, D., Joly, M., Broadbent, E., Smith, C., Tittle, E., & Bateson, M. (2019). Opportunistic food consumption in relation to childhood and adult food insecurity: an exploratory correlational study. Appetite, 132, 222-229.