I observe a strong correlation between feelings about ethics and whether the experimental subjects are economists

Ab Herbst hat das WZB eine neue Präsidentin: Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln folgt zum 1. September auf Jutta Allmendinger (Jutta Allmendinger).
Goethe-Universität BMBF DFG public | @[email protected] Leibniz-Gemeinschaft

What in the hell is happening in this country?

Do we hold others responsible for their choices even when these choices have been shaped by unfair unequal circumstances?

Yes, we do, suggests 'Shallow Meritocracy' from Peter Andre (Peter Andre), recently accepted at REStud.

restud.com/shallow-merito…

This is a very cool paper.

A review in Nature, by Candice Odgers, asserts that I have mistaken correlation for causation and that “there is no evidence that using these platforms is rewiring children’s brains or driving an epidemic of mental illness.” Both of these assertions are untrue.

The bureaucracy of grant management at my university (eg, how slow everything moves, if it moves at all, and how many check-ins and follow up emails one has to write) is literally killing me.

“GiveGreen chooses to offer unconditional cash transfers… Empowering poor people to make their own choices. Well, that advances their core value of respect.” - John Cena in Ricky Stanicky, a new Amazon comedy 🤯 GiveDirectly.org 🧵

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Hello world! We can share some good news today.

🌍 Support for climate action is widespread across the globe and much larger than it is perceived. 🌍

Our new article is out in Nature Climate Change: nature.com/articles/s4155…

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Levent Neyse Leibniz-Gemeinschaft

Happy New Year everyone 🥳

As most of you know already, I have been trying to keep an up-to-date list of recent papers on motivated beliefs.

So if you published a paper or preprint on this topic in 2023, make sure it's on this list 😊⬇️

sites.google.com/view/alicesold…

“Just 27% of [academic] mothers get tenure, compared with 48% of fathers and 46% of women without children.”

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Looks fascinating. Really looking forward to reading. ⁦Macartan Humphreys⁩

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