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Refugee || Professor at University of Pennsylvania @Penn_CSNBD @PennMBDS || Studying dark side of human behavior || 🇲🇩 born — 🇩🇪 grown — 🇺🇸 based

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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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2 years

Wtf this looks pretty awful 👀 @uber #EconTwitter

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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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Eugen Dimant

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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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7 months

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🔓):

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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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10 months

🔥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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4 years

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 💪🏻)

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Eugen Dimant

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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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💥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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3 years

💡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

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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

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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

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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 1/2

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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

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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🤗

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🧳 Some professional news.. I’ll be on leave from @Penn moving forward & join @OESatGSA to be part of a small team working on large-scale RCTs for the American Rescue Plan (). Will resume some @PennMBDS teaching on the side. Excited for this opportunity!

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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 )

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3 years

✨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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2 years

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:

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@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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1 year

🥳 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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2 years

First day on the new @OESatGSA job and already addressing the nation @WhiteHouse

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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

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🚨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: 1/9 #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

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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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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🤗

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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

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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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🚨New WP on risks & benefits of #nudges , #norms , and ‘norm-nudges’🚨 w/ @cbicchieri ( @Penn , @PennMBDS , @Wharton ) Paper: Sharing & comments appreciated - hopefully insightful for researchers and practitioners alike. Thread 1/7

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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

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💥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:

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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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⚠️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

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#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 💪🏻 🔗

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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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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:

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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

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🌼 SEX,LIES and SENSIBILITY out Now

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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 1/7

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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

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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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🚨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 1/ #EconTwitter

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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:

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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

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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

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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:

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A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19

Nature - Evaluation of evidence generated to test 19 proposed policy recommendations and guidance for the future.

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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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@nytimes As a German I feel that this is long long overdue

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🙌🏻 let the work (fun) begin @NSF

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🎙️New #RCT 🎙️ The #opioid epidemic is horrendous - what to do about it? In collaboration with the U.S. government & a Veterans Affairs Medical Center, we successfully used financial incentives & reminder #nudges to help veterans return unused pills 🙌🏻 📜

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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🥳

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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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@alexoimas @ben_golub @wwwojtekk Reminds me of

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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:

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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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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

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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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#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:

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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:

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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

Why People Are Not Budging Despite Mask-Wearing Nudging

Attempts at persuasion to increase mask-wearing demonstrated limited success across the political spectrum.

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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

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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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Sounds about right #EconTwitter

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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

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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: 1/n

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