Eugen Dimant
@eugen_dimant
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Refugee || Professor at University of Pennsylvania @Penn_CSNBD @PennMBDS || Studying dark side of human behavior || 🇲🇩 born — 🇩🇪 grown — 🇺🇸 based
Philadelphia, PA
Joined May 2017
❥ An eventful year is coming to a close: ⦿ 8 new journal pubs ⦿ 1 R&R @PNASNews ⦿ 2 new preprints + stuff I’m excited about in 2025 My recap is also an opportunity to thank all my mentors & colleagues (+ gratitude that I’m not deadwood yet). A short🧵with insights & links
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🚨 Publication Day 🚨 (with @MicheleJGelfand et al.) What happens to social sanctions when politics divide us? Experiment before & after 2024 U.S. presidential election. Result: polarization weakens norms that keep behavior fair. Comments welcome! 📄 https://t.co/S9JyR8iTDo
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This week's @Nature cover highlights a report of A.I. mediated distortion When #ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants https://t.co/qTSHdxF8Ia
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Might be of interest to norms & polarization scholars: @CassSunstein @DrNathanNunn @Amit_Goldenb @jayvanbavel @JoHenrich @itaisher @albertobisin @BrendanNyhan @ylelkes @AdamBerinsky @ValerioCapraro
🚨 Publication Day 🚨 (with @MicheleJGelfand et al.) What happens to social sanctions when politics divide us? Experiment before & after 2024 U.S. presidential election. Result: polarization weakens norms that keep behavior fair. Comments welcome! 📄 https://t.co/S9JyR8iTDo
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🚨 Publication Day 🚨 (with @MicheleJGelfand et al.) What happens to social sanctions when politics divide us? Experiment before & after 2024 U.S. presidential election. Result: polarization weakens norms that keep behavior fair. Comments welcome! 📄 https://t.co/S9JyR8iTDo
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🚨𝐁𝐞𝐒𝐜𝐢 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 @ 𝐌𝐈𝐓🚨 The registration for our 2025 workshop ‘Directions of Polarization, Social Norms & Trust in Societies’ is now open! Keynotes: Beth Goldberg & @AdamBerinsky Registration & Full Lineup: https://t.co/9DPMsDkqDL
@ylelkes @DG_Rand @kati_kish
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Presented new work (w/ @MicheleJGelfand et al.) on polarization (specifically in the wake of the 2024 U.S. election) at the fantastic Fehr & Schmidt @CESifoNetwork behavioral econ conference. I’m a bit too joyful if you ask me.. @jondequidt If curious: https://t.co/S9JyR8jrsW
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective.
aeaweb.org
(Forthcoming Article) - We assess whether men and women are treated differently when presenting their economics research. We collected data across thousands of seminars, job market talks and confer...
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Directions of Polarization, Social Norms, and Trust in Societies—a workshop organized by Team Scientist @DG_Rand, BCFG collaborator @eugen_dimant & colleagues—is now open for registration. Register before October 30th: https://t.co/liErnjOZHH
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Non-exhaustive list of speakers: @jdbk @dhopkins1776 @saumjha @eunjikim_media @GiuliaMaimone2 @BrendanNyhan Cc for interdisciplinary exposure: @CassSunstein @jayvanbavel @Econ_4_Everyone @albertobisin @cblatts @DinaPomeranz @AdamMGrant @JoHenrich @mehdirhasan @S_Stantcheva
🚨𝐁𝐞𝐒𝐜𝐢 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 @ 𝐌𝐈𝐓🚨 The registration for our 2025 workshop ‘Directions of Polarization, Social Norms & Trust in Societies’ is now open! Keynotes: Beth Goldberg & @AdamBerinsky Registration & Full Lineup: https://t.co/9DPMsDkqDL
@ylelkes @DG_Rand @kati_kish
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🚨𝐁𝐞𝐒𝐜𝐢 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 @ 𝐌𝐈𝐓🚨 The registration for our 2025 workshop ‘Directions of Polarization, Social Norms & Trust in Societies’ is now open! Keynotes: Beth Goldberg & @AdamBerinsky Registration & Full Lineup: https://t.co/9DPMsDkqDL
@ylelkes @DG_Rand @kati_kish
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🚨Publication Day🚨 (w/ @TimKriegerFR et al.) What happens to refugee flows when U.S. military aid rises? Using UNHCR asylum data on 170 countries (1991–2018): +10% military aid → ~7.8% more asylum applications. Economic aid does not mirror this. 🔗: https://t.co/oAAqCezdi4
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Cc @DAcemogluMIT @JohnHolbein1 @cblatts @Ingar30 @ikuziemko @mehdirhasan @KhoaVuUmn @BrendanNyhan @atrupar
🚨Publication Day🚨 (w/ @TimKriegerFR et al.) What happens to refugee flows when U.S. military aid rises? Using UNHCR asylum data on 170 countries (1991–2018): +10% military aid → ~7.8% more asylum applications. Economic aid does not mirror this. 🔗: https://t.co/oAAqCezdi4
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🚨Publication Day🚨 (w/ @TimKriegerFR et al.) What happens to refugee flows when U.S. military aid rises? Using UNHCR asylum data on 170 countries (1991–2018): +10% military aid → ~7.8% more asylum applications. Economic aid does not mirror this. 🔗: https://t.co/oAAqCezdi4
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🚨Publication Day🚨 Excited that our paper ‘Experimental Methods: Eliciting and Measuring Social Norms’ (joint with Charness, Gneezy & Krupka) is finally out in JEBO. We hope norms scholars & practitioners alike find it useful. Link (Open Access!): https://t.co/UJS5DvYBnd
💭Working on social norms?💭 We (Charness, Gneezy, Dimant & Krupka) have a new paper comparing leading methods for measuring norms + guidance when & how to use them. Goal: help researchers/practitioners select the right tool for their specific needs. 📄 https://t.co/N7SFZV362A
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Pinging those with relevant research/interests: @MicheleJGelfand @CassSunstein @benleo_econ @Amit_Goldenb @Econ_4_Everyone @ValerioCapraro @jayvanbavel @cblatts @RFisman @AmirGrinstein @hakeemjefferson @itaisher @JoHenrich @SennJulien @profcikara @albertobisin @JohnHolbein1
🔥🧯 Excited to announce the program of our 2025 MIT workshop on polarization, norms & trust (co-organized w/ @DG_Rand, @ylelkes @AdamBerinsky @kati_kish)! Speakers incl. @BrendanNyhan @jdbk @dhopkins1776 et al. Info: https://t.co/9DPMsDkqDL To attend: https://t.co/Dd7K3tWKoF
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🔥🧯 Excited to announce the program of our 2025 MIT workshop on polarization, norms & trust (co-organized w/ @DG_Rand, @ylelkes @AdamBerinsky @kati_kish)! Speakers incl. @BrendanNyhan @jdbk @dhopkins1776 et al. Info: https://t.co/9DPMsDkqDL To attend: https://t.co/Dd7K3tWKoF
📣 Call for Papers 📣 Interested in the newest research on polarization, norms & trust? Present your work our workshop on Dec 5-6 @ MIT, co-organized with @DG_Rand, @ylelkes @AdamBerinsky & @kati_kish 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: https://t.co/9DPMsDkqDL 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: July 14
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Can AI replace humans in reproducing social science research? New Study with 103 teams finds: 🧑🔬 Human-only teams = 94% success 🤖 + 🧑🔬 AI-assisted = 91% success 🤖 AI-led = 37% success Humans caught more major errors & ran better robustness checks. "Despite impressive
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Starting the day with some good news 🥳 Very happy Gneezy, Krupka & I to get to honor the legacy of Gary Charness with the publication of one of his final projects. Published version will be out soon. In the meantime, here’s the final version of our ‘Norms Methods’ paper 👇🏻
💭Working on social norms?💭 We (Charness, Gneezy, Dimant & Krupka) have a new paper comparing leading methods for measuring norms + guidance when & how to use them. Goal: help researchers/practitioners select the right tool for their specific needs. 📄 https://t.co/N7SFZV362A
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Directions of Polarization, Social Norms, and Trust in Societies—a workshop organized by Team Scientist @DG_Rand, BCFG collaborator @eugen_dimant & colleagues—is now accepting abstracts for talks and posters. Submit by July 14: https://t.co/liErnjOrS9
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Ever feel like everything online is getting angrier? You’re not imagining it. Tweets with anger have surged since 2013, while neutral content has declined. 📉 And it matters for policy—our new paper shows how emotions shape what people support. https://t.co/Iewn6DQGaH
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