Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
New working paper alert: we provide a model of post-hoc rationalizations, driven by motives of (self-)esteem. We show how this can lead to groupthink, polarization, and a preference for echo chambers.
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Have learned about fairness views, norms, pre-registrations, how to think about ambiguity, DOSE (was very satisfying), whether monetary incentives matter for beliefs, a cool measure for the deviation from Bayesian, and many more. In the meantime I was having a really nice time š #ESAAfrica #Rabat
Excited to (finally) share Iām joining Masaryk University in Brno for a postdoc --- no teaching, more time for research š Looking forward to my time there with a great group! Iāll be around for ESA Europe 2025 too --- last day to submit: esa2025.econ.muni.cz Come say hi in Brno! #ESAEurope
šØ New publication alert!
āļø Does waiting make us less honest?
š§ In our study, participants waitedāsome in the lab, some at an airport. Once their wait was over, we tested their honesty.
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Results of two studies demonstrate that long and unexpected waits adversely shape moral behavior. In Study 1, passengers who had just joined the checkā¦
