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❥ Wrapping up an eventful research year 2023 with:
⦿ 7 new journal pubs
⦿ 2 R&Rs
⦿ 3 new preprints
+ a few things that I’m excited about in 2024
Time to give 💐 to the fantastic mentors & co-authors who’ve supported me & been part of the ride!
A short🧵with insights & links
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🚨New Publication🚨
𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀 & 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲?
💡Yes? You're in luck:
@CBicchieri
@MicheleJGelfand
@silviasondereg2
& I might have just the right insights to share.
A little🧵
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Some professional news amongst all the chaos: I‘ve accepted a position as ‘Associate Professor of Practice in Behavioral & Decision Sciences’ at
@Penn
@penn_csnbd
@PennMBDS
🥳
Beyond grateful for
@CBicchieri
’s support & the opportunity to work with/learn from the brightest minds
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Increased trust in self-correcting science:
We got an R&R on a paper reporting mostly null results. We were afraid of an academic uphill battle but the reviewer couldn’t have been more supportive of publishing nulls🥰 those reviewers exist!
#teamnull
@JohnHolbein1
#EconTwitter
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Now out in Economics Letters: a new, ready-made (Qualtrics implementation) social norms elicitation method.
How does this method compare to Krupka & Weber, Bicchieri & Xiao, etc?➡️ it allows you to elicit 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 of norms
Paper (OA🔓):
Woke up to an editor calling my submission a “fine paper”🥳
Be on the lookout for a new social norm elicitation method capturing distributions/tightness/looseness in an Economics Letters outlet near you!
(Will drop a🧵once it’s published)
@MicheleJGelfand
@JF_Schulz
@_MaxPosch_
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Big congrats
@aislinnbohren
@alexoimas
🥳🥳🥳🥳
The paper is great and the prize is well deserved
#EconTwitter
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🚨New Pre-Print🚨
@MicheleJGelfand
, Anna, Silvia & I challenge the existing notion in the social norms lit that focuses on mean/modal behavior (Bicchieri & Xiao, Krupa & Weber).
Using theory + experiments with representative samples we find..
🧵1/3
📜
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🔥Call for papers🔥
How do trust & norms shape societal polarization?
Join our interdisciplinary workshop (organizers:
@kati_kish
@ylelkes
@DG_Rand
& myself) at MIT on Dec 1-2. Keynotes by
@profcikara
&
@BenjaminEnke
Deadline: September 11.
Submissions:
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Happy news during otherwise gloomy times: my H-1B has been approved & I can finally start my new position
@Penn
! Feeling relieved to reduce my existential angst of having to leave everything behind
Hoping the best for those who have been anxiously waiting for theirs (
@jonj
💪🏻)
Some professional news amongst all the chaos: I‘ve accepted a position as ‘Associate Professor of Practice in Behavioral & Decision Sciences’ at
@Penn
@penn_csnbd
@PennMBDS
🥳
Beyond grateful for
@CBicchieri
’s support & the opportunity to work with/learn from the brightest minds
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💥New WP: Hate Trumps Love💥
RQ: study behavioral-, belief- & norm-based mechanisms through which perceptions of closeness, altruism & cooperativeness are affected by political polarization under
@realDonaldTrump
Findings: it’s grim
Paper:
Short thread👇
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🗣️New publication (w/
@BellaRen19
@ME_Schweitzer
) out in JESP
How important are social motives for spread of conspiracy theories?
We find: very important! People share to get social recognition
Link:
@DG_Rand
@GordPennycook
@jayvanbavel
@Sander_vdLinden
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WTF! Lost all respect for
@ArmchairExpPod
To give Ariely a platform & glorify him for 2h is one (bad) thing.
But to briefly bring up his controversies, allow him to play the victim & claim that signing at top-vs-bottom is actually a real, well-replicated result is ridiculous.
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💡New paper (with the fantastic
@BellaRen19
&
@ME_Schweitzer
@Wharton
) examining the role of social motives in spreading misinformation/conspiracy theories.
Paper:
Short🧵with results
#EconTwitter
@DG_Rand
@Sander_vdLinden
@GordPennycook
@jayvanbavel
1/n
Why do people spread
#ConspiracyTheories
?
For 'Likes' & social feedback
New paper w/
#BellaRen
@eugen_dimant
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👣First publication of 2022 is✔️
We show when & how social
#norm
compliance erodes over time + the role that group
#identity
plays in mitigating it
Paper:
Results in🧵👇
👀
@jayvanbavel
@CassSunstein
@BrendanNyhan
@eckelcc
@RFisman
@erezyoeli
#EconTwitter
A paper (w/
@CBicchieri
, Gächter
@UoNCeDEx
& Nosenzo) that is near & dear to my heart has finally found a great home at Games and Economic Behavior🥳
Papers in Econ shouldn’t take that long to publish (4yrs) but GEB was swift & helpful reviewers. Time to celebrate🍾
#EconTwitter
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🚨Please spread the word🚨
Can you predict the effectiveness of
#nudge
interventions?🤔
We (incl.
@MicheleJGelfand
, Anna Dreber et al.) are launching a 𝐍𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲.
It takes 20mins & you can earn💰💸
Study:
#EconTwitter
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🚨Interdisc. Speaker Series:
#Norms
& Behavior Change
@penn_csnbd
🚨
Feat. established scholars (
@cblatts
@katy_milkman
@mc_villeval
) & ECRs (
@cp_roth
@fiorin_econ
@_MaxWinkler_
)
📅Thurs 1pm ET:
🌐
Spread the word!
#EconTwitter
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💥CfP Special Issue in JEBO: '
#Norms
& Behavior Change'💥
Michele Gelfand (
@MicheleJGelfand
), Cristina Bicchieri (
@CBicchieri
), Silvia Sonderegger (
@silviasondereg2
) & I are co-editing this interdisciplinary SI.
Submission window Sept 1—Jan 31. Please submit & circulate widely
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👀 Out in
@PNASNexus
👀
We show that norm perceptions are malleable & introduce the concept of 'meta-nudging' (changing behavior by targeting those who enforce norms).
Result: behavior change via norm-nudges work best when preexisting norms are vague.
🔓
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🥁@ polarization/identity/norms scholars🥁
We have new work on how identity + polarization affects information acquisition & social norm formation.
We started circulating it internally but if anyone is interested in reading & providing feedback on our first draft, hit me up 🙏🏻
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I know, barely anyone is here anymore.
Still: (despite various personal challenges), I’m ending the year on a high note with my 9th journal acceptance in 2022!
Paper with
@CBicchieri
on belief distortion under norm-uncertainty accepted at GEB 🥳
Link:
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#EconTwitter
question for the dog owner academics: how unprofessional would it be to use a picture with my pup on my research website?
@KirbyKNielsen
can we please coordinate and you do the same with your cats? 😅
@Andrew___Baker
join us with your 🐶
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Finally published in Management Science❤️
If you're interested in the impact of political polarization on social preferences (altruism, trust, cooperativeness, norms) - this could be the paper for you!
Link:
@BrendanNyhan
@ylelkes
@DG_Rand
@AdamMGrant
🥳 Excited that Management Science finally sent me the proofs!
I’ve learned so much from solo-authoring a paper with 15 experiments run in the midst of a pandemic.
I’ll summarize the insights soon but for now time to🍾 & be thankful to
@yanchen
& many others for their support🤗
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Wondering how to
#nudge
honest behavior?
In a 💣new paper💥 w/ Shaul Shalvi out in COP today, we develop the idea of *meta-nudging*: target 'social influencers' who can enforce social norms. Upside: acceptability of interventions is usually higher too.
📝
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🚨New WP out on 'Backfiring of Nudges'🚨
w/ G. Bolton (
@jindal_utdallas
) & U. Schmidt (
@kielinstitute
)
RQ: Examining universality of a popular
#nudge
: making behavior more observable to facilitate pro-sociality
A: Nudges can backfire
Paper:
Thread 1/n
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🥳 been waiting fir this to drop for quite some time! Out in
@NatureHumBehav
today.
The fantastic
@mhallsworth
is sharing his wisdom on how to succeed at doing good behavioral science now & be more impactful in the future. A must-read!
Link:
#EconTwitter
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🔥Norms & Behavior Change Speaker Series 2022🔥
After
@meier_steph
closed out 2021, we’re excited to announce our
@penn_csnbd
#NoBeCtalks
Spring 2022!
We feature
@DG_Rand
, R. Kranton,
@hugoreasoning
,
@mmuthukrishna
+ many more👇🏻
Signup:
Spread the word!
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Out in Scientific Reports
@Nature
:
1️⃣nudging 😷wearing difficult b/c polarizing issue (cc
@ylelkes
@BrendanNyhan
)
2️⃣behavioral science practitioners & academics are better than laypeople to forecast (non)success of interventions (cc
@sdellavi
@evavivalt
)
✨Excited to share 2 companion📑w/ the inimitable
@MicheleJGelfand
(et al.) examining: can
1️⃣Reps & Dems be nudged to wear masks
2️⃣Practitioners (collab w/
@ChangeBcfg
@BITAmericas
@ideas42
@advncdhindsight
), academics & laypeople predict effectiveness of1️⃣
Short🧵
#EconTwitter
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🧨New Preprint🧨
@_FabioGaleotti_
, Marie Claire Villeval & I study how social norms form through motivated information search
We find strong evidence for self-serving biases: preference for lenient views about dishonesty begets dishonesty & bad norms
🔗
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Today marks exactly 30 yrs since my parents & I fled from Moldova to Germany on refugee status.
Leaving almost everything behind, they started a new life in an unknown country to enable a better future for me. Forever my role models 🙌🏻
Some can relate
@alexoimas
@rustamromaniuc
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@wearytolove
@BrendanNyhan
@abhworthington
Name and shame the journal. We should stop protecting behavior that is detrimental to correcting flawed scientific record
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I had a paper returned to me by a PoliSci journal b/c I didn’t use 2x spacing... once I changed it from 1.5x to 2x, I was exceeding their max page count.. I shortened the paper in a laborious effort, resubmitted & got desk rejected. Initial submissions should be easier don’t @ me
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More details here:
@RemyLevin
@eugen_dimant
@estebanjq3
@wytham88
@Uber
Google translate version of the original article:
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🚨CfP🚨
E. Krupka, L. Balafoutas, S. Gächter & I handle a special issue on “Social Norms: Enforcement, Breakdown & Polarization” at the European Economic Review (EER).
•Open: Nov 1, 2022
•Close: May 1, 2023
🔗
Pls circulate widely & send us your work!
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🚨Interested in the newest research on polarization, norms & trust?🚨
Join our workshop on 𝐃𝐞𝐜 𝟏-𝟐 @ 𝐌𝐈𝐓, co-organized with
@DG_Rand
,
@ylelkes
&
@kati_kish
Keynotes from
@profcikara
& Ben Enke + many superstar speakers
𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:
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@joffreleroux
@Uber
There’s a reason why companies ask academics for public “consulting work” & conflict of interest is clear, especially if they were “buying” specific results
I don’t know how good your German is but this article accuses a German economist doing the same.
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🥳 Accepted at
@PNASNews
🥳
Happy to have played a small role in what is a very cool paper (45 research teams tried to answer the same question using 45 different experimental designs).
Looking forward to sharing the paper publicly, soon!
#EconTwitter
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#EconTwitter
If you like planning ahead: join our session “
#Norms
, Beliefs & Behavior Change” at
@ASSAMeeting
on Jan 4, noon (EDT). Contributions & discussions by
@mc_villeval
@silvia_saccardo
@schwardmann
@c_a_gravert
@erezyoeli
@CBicchieri
et al.
Link: ,
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Recent paper by
@heckmanequation
looks like something that the randomistas among us (and those interested in methodology) might find interesting
@jhaushofer
@FrankSchilbach
@economeager
@causalinf
Paper:
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💥new
#nudge
paper out in JEBO💥
Norm-nudging & framing fails to shift behavior &
#norm
-perception
Happy about smooth process for this
#teamnulleffects
(
@JohnHolbein1
) paper - 12 month b/w inception of idea & publication
Paper:
@mhallsworth
@CassSunstein
🚨High powered & pre-registered study on
#nudges
&
#norms
🚨
(w/ G.v. Kleef &
@Shaul_Shalvi
)
RQ: does framing of nudges affect dishonesty when subjective & objective risk are ruled out?
A: nada (but interesting secondary results👇)
Paper:
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#EconTwitter
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@jmwooldridge
What about a final slide with a QR code that links to the paper? That's at least what I've been using it for - though most people still don't know what to actually do with it when they see it :D
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☢️New
@CESifoGroup
WP☢️
⦿I quantify impact of political polarization on social preferences via 15(!) incentive-compatible experiments
⦿I also test if
#nudging
can reduce polarization (it can't)
Paper:
#EconTwitter
Short🧵on what's new in this version
💥New WP: Hate Trumps Love💥
RQ: study behavioral-, belief- & norm-based mechanisms through which perceptions of closeness, altruism & cooperativeness are affected by political polarization under
@realDonaldTrump
Findings: it’s grim
Paper:
Short thread👇
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What a year this has been! Academically, it ends with:
• 9 new journal pubs
• 3 new working papers
• 3 current R&Rs (Nature, PNAS & Experimental Economics)
• 2 special issues
In the following tweets, I briefly reflect & thank my fantastic collaborators, mentors & friends🙌🏻🎉
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🥳 Excited that Management Science finally sent me the proofs!
I’ve learned so much from solo-authoring a paper with 15 experiments run in the midst of a pandemic.
I’ll summarize the insights soon but for now time to🍾 & be thankful to
@yanchen
& many others for their support🤗
Paper 1:
𝗛𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽𝘀 𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲: 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀
Accepted at: Management Science
Insight: how deep does political polarization run & what to do about it
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Check out our newly-founded Center for Social Norms & Behavioral Dynamics
@Penn
. A diverse team of scholars works on
#norms
& behavioral change (academic, consulting etc). Also, stay tuned for
#NoBeC2020
😏
@adamsethlevine
@mhallsworth
@BrendanNyhan
@CassSunstein
@MicheleJGelfand
We're happy to present to you the new website of our newly established Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics:
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🥰Happy to finally see this paper out in JEBO!
This is the 1st project
@CBicchieri
& I ever worked on. It kicked off a prolonged collaboration that became a turning point for me🙏
Paper:
Summary of findings in the tweet below.
#EconTwitter
@penn_csnbd
💥Updated WP (w/
@CBicchieri
& E. Xiao)💥
RQ: effect of
#norms
on efficacy of punishment to enforce pro-sociality
F: can backfire b/c pun. may be perceived as illegitimate➡cautionary tale of how to use norms & pun. to nudge behavior
Paper:
#EconTwitter
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Fantastic keynote by Esther Duflo on improving early childhood education at
@Unibocconi
’s LEAP conference.
An impressive program was put together
@elianalaferrara
@mushfiq_econ
@FrankSchilbach
@fiorin_econ
@claudferraz
#EconTwitter
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🥁Finally out in
@PNASNews
🥁
Congrats to my fellow collaborators 🍾
Link:
🥳 Accepted at
@PNASNews
🥳
Happy to have played a small role in what is a very cool paper (45 research teams tried to answer the same question using 45 different experimental designs).
Looking forward to sharing the paper publicly, soon!
#EconTwitter
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⚠️Interested in research on polarization? (cc
@ylelkes
@BrendanNyhan
)
Join our our
@ASSAMeeting
#ASSA2022
panel via
@EcScienceAssoc
: Jan 7, 10am ET
Papers:
@yanchen
@michaelhthaler
@AndreaRobbett
& me (new work w/
@MicheleJGelfand
).
Discussants:
@eckelcc
@LauraKGee
@RoeeLevyZ
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🚨New WP (theory + experiment): lying & belief distortion under norm-uncertainty🚨
w/
@cbicchieri
(
@Penn
) & Sonderegger (
@CeDEx
)
RQ: how do we engage in deviant behavior when social
#norms
are uncertain?
A: self-serving belief distortion
Paper:
Thread ⬇
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🥳 So happy! 🥳
Johannes & I started working on this in our 1st year. Finally found a great home at the Journal of Risk & Uncertainty.
Thankful that the editor allowed us to push back against the ref’s request to collect more data 💪🏻
Paper:
#EconTwitter
#EconTwitter
: we just got an R&R where reviewer raises Qs that can only be addressed w/ new lab experiment (too complex for online exp).
Issue: we don’t have access to the lab where original study was run anymore + it’s closed for the foreseeable future anyway.
How to approach?
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I was casually going through
@causalinf
’s Mixtape (as one does on a Saturday night) and realized that Scott’s understanding of “now the fun part” is vastly different from mine (potentially of most people? 🧐)
Go and get his great book tho 💪🏻
#EconTwitter
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🥳 our paper on ‘Meta-Nudging’ (w/ Shaul Shalvi) is now officially published!
It’s a conceptual paper in which we introduce a complementary approach to
#nudging
long-lasting behavior change.
We are looking forward to more empirical work on this 💪🏻
🔗
Wondering how to
#nudge
honest behavior?
In a 💣new paper💥 w/ Shaul Shalvi out in COP today, we develop the idea of *meta-nudging*: target 'social influencers' who can enforce social norms. Upside: acceptability of interventions is usually higher too.
📝
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Excited that the paper is finally published on the Games and Economic Behavior website! It’s been a long time coming.
If you wanna learn more about when, how & why people distort their beliefs about what norms (not) to follow, check it out💪🏻
Open Access:
Paper 2:
𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗔 𝗟𝗶𝗲 𝗶𝗳 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 (w/
@CBicchieri
&
@silviasondereg2
)
Out in: Games and Economic Behavior
Insight: investigates how we distort social norms to justify own deviance
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Just one more regression to confirm robustness of results real quick
@KhoaVuUmn
#EconTwitter
Apart from "life is short" what other lines do you use before making bad decisions?
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✨New Paper Alert✨
@CBicchieri
& I wrote a short piece on norm-nudging, what it is, how to use it & what pitfalls to avoid.
It's for a forthcoming Behavioral Econ Encyclopedia (
@CFCamerer
will write the foreword!). Any & all comments are welcome🙏🏻
Link:
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🔥Excited for our Norms & Behavior Change speaker series to resume this Thursday, 1pm ET!
@DG_Rand
kicks things off with a cross-cultural examination of misinformation spread.
Speakers incl. among others: R. Kranton,
@sararlowes
,
@mmuthukrishna
To join:
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✨Excited to share 2 companion📑w/ the inimitable
@MicheleJGelfand
(et al.) examining: can
1️⃣Reps & Dems be nudged to wear masks
2️⃣Practitioners (collab w/
@ChangeBcfg
@BITAmericas
@ideas42
@advncdhindsight
), academics & laypeople predict effectiveness of1️⃣
Short🧵
#EconTwitter
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@HannoLustig
@wdessein
@Uber
An affiliation w/ a company is not a Carte blanche to produce pre-determined results for top $$$. *IF* this is what happened here then it’s the definition of bribery.
We academics have an ethical responsibility: our research carries weight & influences public perception + policy
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💡Attending
@ASSAMeeting
#ASSA2023
& interested in norms, identity & political polarization?
Our
@EcScienceAssoc
session features Rachel Kranton, Erin Krupka,
@LorenzGoette
& discussions by Gary Charness,
@AndreaRobbett
& more!
Sat, 10:15am, Balcony K
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⚡Interested in research on 𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬/𝐧𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐬/𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞?⚡
Join us at the
@ASSAMeeting
, Jan 4, noon (EDT). Great team of presenters & discussants (see👇)
Linking all presented papers below.
Session details:
#EconTwitter
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#EconTwitter
If you like planning ahead: join our session “
#Norms
, Beliefs & Behavior Change” at
@ASSAMeeting
on Jan 4, noon (EDT). Contributions & discussions by
@mc_villeval
@silvia_saccardo
@schwardmann
@c_a_gravert
@erezyoeli
@CBicchieri
et al.
Link: ,
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💥VERY💥 excited to announce the program for our 2022 in-person Norms & Behavior Change conference
@Penn
Keynotes form the fantastic
@MicheleJGelfand
& L. Bursztyn + talks by
@DG_Rand
@salma_mousa_
@ylelkes
@erezyoeli
@AndreaRobbett
R. Kranton…
Join us!
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A paper (w/
@CBicchieri
, Gächter
@UoNCeDEx
& Nosenzo) that is near & dear to my heart has finally found a great home at Games and Economic Behavior🥳
Papers in Econ shouldn’t take that long to publish (4yrs) but GEB was swift & helpful reviewers. Time to celebrate🍾
#EconTwitter
🚨New: Social Proximity & Evolution of Norm Compliance🚨
w/
@CBicchieri
(
@Penn
), Gächter & Nosenzo (
@UoNCeDEx
@CESifoGroup
@iza_bonn
)
RQ: how does peer exposure affect the dynamics of
#social
#norm
#compliance
?
A: it's complicated!
Paper:
Thread ⬇
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🚨CfP:
#Norms
& Behavioral Change Workshop
@Penn
🚨
joint w/
@CBicchieri
,
@EnriqueFatas
&
@PennMBDS
Info:
•Oct 17–18
•Keynotes:
@NicoLacetera
& Deborah Prentice
•Apply:
•Deadline: May 3, 2019
•Qs? nobec-workshop
@sas
.upenn.edu
Please share widely!
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🚨Successfully nudging honesty?🚨
Shaul Shalvi & I review the behavior change lit + provide policy recs for choice architects. Feedback welcome!
You have related research & we don't cite you yet? Send it to us by 4/17!
@agnekaj
@silvia_saccardo
Paper:
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My personal research review of projects that I worked on, was part of & published in 2021 on topics such as norms, nudges, and behavior change.
The year was tiresome but I’ve learned a lot from my colleagues & mentors, so this is a homage to them
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Paper👇🏻 by Baumeister makes some bold claims about what we can(‘t) learn from effect sizes.
@lakens
wrote an insightful response that also happens to be his (signed!) referee report from when the paper was under review elsewhere
#SocSciResearch
Read here:
Do Effect Sizes in Psychology Laboratory Experiments Mean Anything in Reality?
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VERY🥰that this is finally published. The typical econ route that took forever...
We (w/ Bolton & Schmidt) evaluate when & why simple reputation
#nudges
(one's (un)ethical actions being observed by others) can backfire. Details in🧵👇
Paper:
#EconTwitter
🔥Full update of 👇paper on backfiring of
#nudges
🔥
Link:
Main finding: nudges can backfire
A solution: proper
#norm
interventions
But wait, there is more!
We now study the mechanism of *why* the nudge backfires
Thread ⬇️
#EconTwitter
#SocSciResearch
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Happy to have been along for the ride and support the social norms portion of the paper out in
@Nature
today. Congrats to us all 🥂
@jayvanbavel
says everything that’s important in his thread below 👇🏻 and the open access paper can be downloaded here:
Our new paper in
@Nature
evaluates the accuracy of social and behavioral policy recommendations during COVID19 (from )
We reviewed 747 papers (mean N = 16,848) and found evidence for 89% of our central claims:
The strongest
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🧐What are the limits of nudging in our polarized societies?
We (w/
@MicheleJGelfand
et al.) run interventions inspired by MFT (cc
@Leesplez
) to increase😷among Reps & Dems.
Result: issue is too polarizing for simple interventions.
Finally out in JESP🥳
✨Excited to share 2 companion📑w/ the inimitable
@MicheleJGelfand
(et al.) examining: can
1️⃣Reps & Dems be nudged to wear masks
2️⃣Practitioners (collab w/
@ChangeBcfg
@BITAmericas
@ideas42
@advncdhindsight
), academics & laypeople predict effectiveness of1️⃣
Short🧵
#EconTwitter
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🚨Cool job alert
@Penn
🚨
Our newly founded research center on ‘Social Norms & Behavioral Dynamics’ (headed by
@CBicchieri
) is seeking a Director of Research. Come & work with us on social norms topics!
Application link:
Please share widely!
#EconTwitter
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I don’t know what I expected but this sounds about right. I’m pinging
@scorsesemartin
, Spielberg, Tarantino… I dare you to produce an
@OpenAI
movie like this.
#Oscars
incoming
Who’s playing the economists? Awaiting nominations
@causalinf
@KhoaVuUmn
@itaisher
#EconTwitter
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🔥Just in time🔥
We (Panizza, Kimbrough, Vostroknutov & I) just released a new paper. We introduce a novel approach to think about & measure the co-existence of multiple social norms.
Folco will present it at👇🏻workshop tomorrow. Comments welcome!
Paper:
🚨Interested in the newest research on polarization, norms & trust?🚨
Join our workshop on 𝐃𝐞𝐜 𝟏-𝟐 @ 𝐌𝐈𝐓, co-organized with
@DG_Rand
,
@ylelkes
&
@kati_kish
Keynotes from
@profcikara
& Ben Enke + many superstar speakers
𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:
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Can’t believe what I’m reading:
Apparently, Dan Ariely claimed in an Israeli interview that the norms of scientific publishing shield him from any blame b/c of the author order on the paper?!
Deeply troubling argument if true (my Hebrew is non-existent)
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@jonmummolo
@dean_c_knox
Not sure whether you can speak publicly, but what reasons were given for not publishing an obviously worthwhile critique? How is correcting scientific flaws considered a sin?
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Excited to announce our amazing speakers at
#NoBeC2019
including
@eckelcc
@varungauri
@_alice_evans
@saadgulzar
@janagallus
@rustamromaniuc
@danilaserra_eco
et al. with keynotes from
@NicoLacetera
& D. Prentice
Want to attend without presenting?Email nobec-workshop
@sas
.upenn.edu
🚨CfP:
#Norms
& Behavioral Change Workshop
@Penn
🚨
joint w/
@CBicchieri
,
@EnriqueFatas
&
@PennMBDS
Info:
•Oct 17–18
•Keynotes:
@NicoLacetera
& Deborah Prentice
•Apply:
•Deadline: May 3, 2019
•Qs? nobec-workshop
@sas
.upenn.edu
Please share widely!
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#COVID19
question: once the
@Harvard
@Princeton
@Stanford
@Penn
universities of the world cancel classes for the spring, what‘s the plan for the fall & beyond? The virus won’t just disappear, vaccine won’t be around for 1+ years. All online from now on?
@JohnHolbein1
@jhaushofer
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🔥🙌🏻🔥
Elated that this fun project has found a great home at 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑺𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆
Time to celebrate
@MicheleJGelfand
et al.🥳
Interested in how we navigate tight/loose/polarized environments & how norms guide behavior? Check out👇🏻
Link:
Work in progress 1:
𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗧𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁, 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀
Insight: people respond to both the mean & shape of social norms. Tightness, looseness & polarization is reproduced & indicates evolutionary stability
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#EconTwitter
brainstorming: what topics are *highly polarizing* but *not* political in nature? ‘Pineapple on pizza’ comes to mind. What else?
Assembling a list of topics (you can also take this as ‘wrong answers only’ invitation but preferably relevant).
Retweets appreciated🙏🏻
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*Very* jet lagged in Germany but waking up to an R&R with
@MicheleJGelfand
supersedes it🥳
Interested in how people navigate environments characterized by tightness/looseness/polarization of norms? Check out👇🏻 (+ send us your relevant work to cite)
Link:
Work in progress 1:
𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗧𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁, 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀
Insight: people respond to both the mean & shape of social norms. Tightness, looseness & polarization is reproduced & indicates evolutionary stability
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Why People Are Not Budging Despite Mask-Wearing Nudging?
@PsychToday
Write-up of our work with
@MicheleJGelfand
et al. +
@ChangeBcfg
@mhallsworth
@ideas42
@alineholzwarth
Cc
@jayvanbavel
@RobbWiller
@BrendanNyhan
@katy_milkman
@angeladuckw
#EconTwitter
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Excited to participate in the
@WZB_Berlin
workshop on “Behavioral & Experimental Insights on COVID-19”
Presenting joint work with
@MicheleJGelfand
, A. Dreber,
@mhallsworth
@ChangeBcfg
@ideas42
et al. (see Tweet👇🏻)
Great program includes
@meier_armando
@meier_steph
@alain_cohn
..
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🚨New: Social Proximity & Evolution of Norm Compliance🚨
w/
@CBicchieri
(
@Penn
), Gächter & Nosenzo (
@UoNCeDEx
@CESifoGroup
@iza_bonn
)
RQ: how does peer exposure affect the dynamics of
#social
#norm
#compliance
?
A: it's complicated!
Paper:
Thread ⬇
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Dear
#nudge
scholars, could you point me to (citable!) examples in which nudge interventions backfired (i.e., increase litter), as opposed to just having been ineffective (i.e. take up rate unaffected)?
@R_Thaler
@CassSunstein
@erezyoeli
@spbhanot
@mhallsworth
@katy_milkman
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Finally good news for a paper that’s near & dear to my heart but where the same reviewer has been bashing us across 3(!) journals no matter what we did to address the points.
Luckily, a much better draw this time with reviewers that were supportive & constructive 🙏🏻
#EconTwitter
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🔥Full update of 👇paper on backfiring of
#nudges
🔥
Link:
Main finding: nudges can backfire
A solution: proper
#norm
interventions
But wait, there is more!
We now study the mechanism of *why* the nudge backfires
Thread ⬇️
#EconTwitter
#SocSciResearch
🚨New WP out on 'Backfiring of Nudges'🚨
w/ G. Bolton (
@jindal_utdallas
) & U. Schmidt (
@kielinstitute
)
RQ: Examining universality of a popular
#nudge
: making behavior more observable to facilitate pro-sociality
A: Nudges can backfire
Paper:
Thread 1/n
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Excited for my first accepted Registered Report on
#nudging
at JESP 🥳 thanks to the fabulous
@MicheleJGelfand
for leading the way🙏🏻
Being able to move forward with the costly data collection w/o the hassle of having to please reviewers with the results is truly such a relief!
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Why People Share Conspiracy Theories Even When They Know They Are Untrue |
@PsychToday
@ME_Schweitzer
@BellaRen19
@Sander_vdLinden
@jayvanbavel
@DG_Rand
@GordPennycook
#EconTwitter
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Happy to finally see this paper in print at the Journal of Economic Psychology!
Thread ⬇️
It’s the first experimental project I ever worked on in my PhD & has had a long, rocky road with several split decisions & revisions
#SocSciResearch
#EconTwitter
Updated
@UoNCeDEx
WP on 'Contagion of Pro- & Anti-Social Peer Behavior'
RQ: do peer effects differ wrt the domain of behavior (pro- & anti-social)?
Findings
• Anti-social behavior more contagious
• Amplified by social proximity to peers
Paper:
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