This was my second-year paper and a project that began during an independent study with @deborahasmall. Surreal to see it in print and incredibly grateful to have both Deb and @EmmaELevine as fantastic coauthors and mentors!.

This supports that concerns in this.context are more about the act of fabricating an artificial reality than audience's misperceiving reality. If the tactic is a true sample of reality, it is viewed as more ethical, even when it leads to a more distorted perception of reality.

Yet they are more sensitive to artificial images (e.g., an actor posing as poor), even when the image resembles reality.

Furthermore, we unpack the objection to deceptive tactics and find lower concern with non-deceptive manipulation (using emotion to compel donations) and ‘cherry-picked’ portrayals of poverty (showing an extreme, but real image) so long as there is some truth to the portrayal.

Across 6 studies, we find that American participants.are more bothered by tactics decried as deceptive rather than those decried as exploitative, objectifying, or manipulative.

While prior work has found that graphic depictions of human suffering can be effective in soliciting donations, critics have condemned these practices as exploitative, objectifying, and deceptive, ultimately labeling them ‘poverty porn.’.

🚨New paper out at Cognition!.Examining ethical judgments of poverty portrayals in charity ads, we find lay judgments hinge more on whether portrayals are genuine (sampled from reality) than whether they are representative (depict what is typical). More details below. .

RT @socscipredict: New on SSPP: What's the impact of different forms of choice architecture on people's estimates? @KellenMrkva, @marissa_s….

Check out our paper about risk preference profiles now out at the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. Some really cool analysis by @renatofrey_sci and of course the invaluable risk expertise of @elkeweber . A pleasure to have worked with such a great team!.

What’s longer? A CVS receipt or this itemized receipt from the first doctoral happy hour

As someone whose parents didn’t go to college (and one didn’t finish high school), it’s become more apparent to me recently how much of an advantage this can be. Am realizing how hesitant I am to ask for help, partially because I always had to do all my schoolwork alone.

RT @jacasiegel: I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again: supportive partners (or friends, or family) are the backbone of academic prog….

So happy to see this paper finally out and as an early career researcher, such a pleasure to work with and learn from such a great team of researchers: Benedict, @ProfEricJohnson and Tom.

If you’re interested in health insurance, choice architecture or policy implications check out our new paper in JM! Seemingly small factors can affect choice, and their combination may not always be positive for consumers.

RT @Dr_Meming: Me finding a typo right after hitting submit . @OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

3 years into grad school and I still didn’t know how burnt out I was until a day into vacation.

Every grad student ever.

My fathers valentines day gift to me. Generally amusing, but particularly amusing to receive this kind of unexpected collab as a marketing/decision sciences researcher.

Hopefully having a paper accepted that I collected the data for back in 2016 as a lab manager is a good omen of things to come for 2022 (or at least February).

RT @ttorres: Worthy Read: Defaults Are Not the Same by Default by Jon Jachimowicz, Shannon Duncan, Elke U. Weber, and Eric Johnson (@jonj,….