Who gets more bored, rich people or poor people? 🤑

Talked to Tanya Basu last week about money, boredom, and the search for an interesting life.

Highly recommend her latest piece on our work:

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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.

So yes, money helps make life a little less boring.

Since boredom undermines productivity, decision-making, and mental health, our findings point at boredom as an overlooked component of the psychological footprint of poverty.

We don’t find big differences between blue- and white-collar workers.

But for people relying on unemployment benefits or pensions, the link between household income and boredom is stronger.

Using data from over 60,000 individuals across 30 countries, we show that low-income individuals experience boredom more often.

Boredom is also more “toxic” among low-income individuals (more strongly linked to feelings of sadness, anxiety and loneliness).

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!

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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:

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Although our boredom manipulation did not directly affect participants’ tendency to transfer or steal money from another player, it did reduce their sense of agency — and this reduced agency, in turn, was linked to both increased prosocial and antisocial behavior.

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…

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).

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Sobre aburrimiento y toma de decisiones 👇👇

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...

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

¿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...

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...

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…

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.
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Hi Stephanie, would love to be added! Thanks!

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.
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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:
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I created a starter pack for Boredom Research! Please share and let me know if you would like to be added.

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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 ...

📢 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 🙏