Associate Professor of Practice at University of Pennsylvania @Penn_CSNBD & @PennMBDS || Studying the dark side of humans || 🇲🇩 born — 🇩🇪 grown — 🇺🇸 based
Dec 9, 2021 • 4 tweets • 10 min read
👣First publication of 2022 is✔️
We show when & how social #norm compliance erodes over time + the role that group #identity plays in mitigating it
💡New paper (with the fantastic @BellaRen19 & @ME_Schweitzer@Wharton) examining the role of social motives in spreading misinformation/conspiracy theories.
They show how pervasive misinfo spread is & how people reason at the individual level.
May 19, 2021 • 8 tweets • 8 min read
☢️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)
1st of all, the paper contains many experiments and interventions. After the initial submission of this paper, reviewers asked to not only quantify the detrimental impact of polarization but also test behavioral interventions to alleviate it.
So now I have ~9,000 obs.
Sep 4, 2020 • 13 tweets • 9 min read
💥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
RQ: how do we engage in deviant behavior when social #norms are uncertain?
A: self-serving belief distortion
Paper: bit.ly/2Go0tJk
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Known:
◈ #Lies are ubiquitous & people often lie for their own benefit or for others (@UriGneezy et al., 2018 AER, Abeler et al., 2019 Ecta)
◈ Reasons (not) to lie: ethical dissonance, image concerns...
--> we take a complementary approach: norm-following considerations
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Governments use substantial resources to keep society safe and punish people for criminal acts. Mass incarceration is both costly and ineffective.
Understanding how to design proper institutions is important from both the social and economic perspective.