Research by @eRubaltelli et al. on charitable giving finds that people perceive cost and benefit asymmetrically, resulting in less willingness to give as donation amounts and lives helped increase. Bundling donation requests helps overcome this asymmetry.
https://t.co/NuNeaQHxG6
After all these years, prospect theory is still doing fine! Thanks @kairuggeri and @jResearchProg for asking me to be part of this amazing project!
https://t.co/lju0oOd67I
This fascinating paper provides evidence from a natural experiment (the introduction of digital TV) that local news helps to drive citizen (mis)perceptions about crime rates.
Paper (from 🇮🇹): "News media and crime perceptions"
#SocSciResearch
https://t.co/H2x71AFl0S
This fascinating paper provides evidence from a natural experiment (the introduction of digital TV) that local news helps to drive citizen (mis)perceptions about crime rates.
Paper (from 🇮🇹): "News media and crime perceptions"
#SocSciResearch
https://t.co/H2x71AFl0S
One of the best graphics ever on long-term progress on Development, as life expectancy goes from under 40 everywhere to so much better today (by @MaxCRoser)
Kipchoge's incredible world record, solo for a huge portion of it, felt almost like the antithesis of the Breaking2 extravaganza. But I don't think 2:01:39 would have happened without that prior 2:00:25.
#BerlinMarathon
Ai Weiwei's documentary film Human Flow provides a powerful antidote to psychic numbing. #Refugees need our empathy and our help. https://t.co/cNRoaQeYw5
In Belgium, scientific papers that originate from public funds can now all be made public in open access, regardless of any contract with publishers. It is written in the law. And retroactive.
MTurk Bot-gate 2018, Update:
Apparently the mTurk bots are humans, NOT bots. They are shady mTurkers who use server farms to conceal their identity and crack through surveys. Sean Dennis's working paper below spells out the problem--and how to fix it.
https://t.co/c5X3huha3E