Happy #Monday! Today's #interview is with George Loewenstein! One of the most famous #academics in #BehavioralScience and one of the highest published in #economics, #psychology, #medicine and #law! Read it here: moneyonthemind.org/post/interview… #behavioraleconomics #decisionmaking

Schools should teach about: 1) Emotions: emotional intelligence, happiness, handling failures 2) Morality: integrity, kindness, forgiveness 3) Cooperation: altruism, kindness, relationship building 4) Decision-making: critical thinking, cognitive biases, financial management

A recent controversy on the RCT in Nairobi with a water company threatening nonpaying users to cut their water as one experimental treatment has raised once again ethical concerns on this strategy to produce knowledge (Covide, Yoshida Paul Gertler and Sebastian Galiani). Here we go 1/n

Are you conducting an #RCT & want to make sure that it will be sufficiently powered? Check out our #ResearchResources for practical tips and sample code for conducting power calculations. #EconTwitter povertyactionlab.org/resource/power…

Check out the No Club’s new article on non-promotable tasks in science, just out in Nature. Saying ‘no’ in science isn’t enough nature.com/articles/d4158…

Do women face discrimination when they post questions on Stack Exchange? If they are novice (low reputation score), yes! They get a smaller reputation bump If they are advanced (high score), direction of discrimination ~reverses~ Paper by Aislinn Bohren, @alexoimas, Rosenberg

The 1st COVID-19 lockdown in France had a negative impact on trust driven by individuals who experienced financial hardship, lack of outward exposure and anxiety. More in a new GATE WP by Fortuna Casoria Fabio Galeotti and M.Claire Villeval gate.cnrs.fr/RePEc/2023/230… GATE-LAB

PhD positions in Lyon: 1. Impact of violence on childrens’ social preferences in Africa with Marie Claire Villeval 2. Mental health of entrepreneurs with Aurelien Baillon To apply, please send your cv to [email protected] and [email protected]. Please retweet.

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Psychologists have posited hundreds of cognitive biases over the years. A fascinating new paper argues that they all boil down to one of a handful of fundamental beliefs coupled with confirmation bias. doi.org/10.1177/174569…

When trust is on the rocks, honesty oaths can help both with detectable lies and those that are deniable! How ? Learn more in this new GATE WP by Sorravich Kingsuwankul, Chloe Tergiman and M.Claire Villeval. gate.cnrs.fr/RePEc/2023/231… GATE-LAB

🧩New paper out: "Contingent Belief Updating" w/Andrea Amelio Katharina Brütt ! We study how contingent thinking – that is, reasoning through all possible contingencies without knowing which is realized – affects belief updating. What does contingent belief updating mean? 1/

Happy to share a new WP with Fabio Galeotti and Rainer Michael Rilke on "Beliefs and Group Dishonesty: The Role of Strategic Interaction and Responsibility". ⬇️⬇️⬇️ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…