New paper out in SBE! Self-employment is linked to lower boredom, a relationship that is not captured by traditional measures of well-being. A less boring life may be an overlooked (an independent) component of the well-being gains from self-employment! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Boredom and psychological well-being among the self-employed - Small Business Economics

Individuals not only seek a happy and meaningful life, but an interesting rather than a boring one. In this paper, we analyze data from 19,000 individuals across 25 European countries to demonstrate t...

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Do synthetic LLM participants change their behavior when prompts point at the researcher's hypothesis? Yes (and by a lot). New working paper out: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Talked to Tanya Basu last week about money, boredom, and the search for an interesting life. Highly recommend her latest piece on our work: open.substack.com/pub/boredolo...

Who gets more bored, rich people or poor people?

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New paper out in JEBO with @dnavarro-martinez.bsky.social We develop a taxonomy of real-world environments where social preference games are expected to generalize, based on external validity claims in the literature and insights from a survey of experts.

Daniel Navarro-Martinez@dnavarro-martinez.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Where do social preference games generalize? Our new paper (with @sergiopirla.bsky.social) provides a ranking of field environments based on expert perceptions. Handy if you want to motivate your social preference research or explore external validity! Here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We’ve studied the relationship between income and happiness for decades. But what about income and boredom? Our paper is finally out in the Journal of Economic Psychology! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Research by @sergiopirla.bsky.social et al (N=60k across 30 countries) suggests a robust negative association between daily experiences of boredom and income; in lower income individuals, boredom is also more closely linked with sadness, worry and anxiety: buff.ly/S1ez2xo

New paper out in JESP with Thekla Müller-Boysen and @stepf.bsky.social We used three modified versions of the dictator game to test whether boredom impacts social preferences (N = 3500). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

On the relation between boredom and social behavior: A registered report

Boredom plays an essential role in everyday life and is a powerful motivator. This registered report investigated the interpersonal consequences of bo…

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Sobre aburrimiento y toma de decisiones 👇👇

The Conversation ES@es.theconversation.com · last yr.

¿Por qué algunas personas prefieren triturar gusanos vivos antes que aburrirse? El aburrimiento puede sacar lo mejor… o lo peor de nosotros. Lo analiza @sergiopirla.bsky.social de @unizar.es:

Barrios, Percepciones sobre Desigualdad y Preferencias por la Redistribución: Evidencia de Barcelona nadaesgratis.es/admin/barrio... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

Barrios, Percepciones sobre Desigualdad y Preferencias por la Redistribución: Evidencia de Barcelona

Por Gerard Domènech Arumí Extensa investigación muestra que la desigualdad de ingresos y riqueza ha aumentado en las últimas décadas (por ejemplo, este artículo). Sin embargo, parece que hay una desc...

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El 95% de las personas subestima la huella de carbono del 1% más rico. Cuando se les presentan las cifras reales, aumentan su apoyo a los impuestos verdes. Mi artículo sobre nuestra investigación reciente en The Conversation: theconversation.com/por-que-se-d...

¿Por qué se diluye la huella de carbono de los más ricos?

Ni todos contribuyen al cambio climático de la misma forma, ni todos son conscientes de que las desigualdades económicas también se manifiestan en las emisiones de CO₂. Estar bien informados aumenta e...

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95% of people underestimate the carbon footprint of the top 1%. When presented with the actual figures, people increase their support for carbon taxes. Our new paper (with Laila Nockur and @stepf.bsky.social) is out in the Journal of Environmental Psychology. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The misperception of carbon footprints of the rich and the poor

Not everyone contributes to climate change to the same extent. While huge inequalities exist in consumption and associated greenhouse gas emissions, w…

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He vuelto a actualizar el starter pack de economistas de habla hispana. Ya somos mas de 90. Ideal si acabas de aterrizar o si piensas que Bluesky todavia no ha despegado. Si quieres añadir tu nombre, no tienes mas que decirlo. go.bsky.app/8tkeVED

New WP out (with Daniel Navarro-Martinez)! We present a guide of field environments and behaviors that social preference games are expected to generalize to, using insights from experimental economists. Full paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I created a starter pack for Boredom Research! Please share and let me know if you would like to be added. go.bsky.app/LhdAdzG

📢 Call for Papers: Special Issue on Boredom! 📢 Boredom signals unsatisfactory interactions with our inner & outer worlds. For HSSComms, @corimartarelli.bsky.social & I are editing a collection exploring it through diverse lenses & methods 🤩 ➡️ www.nature.com/collections/... pls share liberally 🙏

The dynamics of boredom

This Collection aims to advance our theoretical understanding of boredom, improve the methods used to study boredom, and consider practical applications for ...

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