In poverty, do people take more or less risk? Some theories contend that they avoid risk out of caution. Others that they take risks (e.g. crime) out of desperation.
In our new paper in BBS, we show that they are the two sides of the same coin: the desperation threshold.
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🔺 New preprint 🔺
Why does poverty increase time discounting?
With W. Frankenhuis and @danielnettle.bsky.social, we argue that current models do not account for discounting in *persistent* poverty, and show that a desperation threshold can!
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This week, we talk to @danielnettle.bsky.social about big picture issues in the evolutionary social sciences, craving sugar, income inequality, running, and more!
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NEW: We show and replicate socioeconomic gradients in heuristics for decision-making under uncertainty, possibly reflecting adaptations varying levels of scarcity and competition for resources 🫰
Shoutout and thanks to @danielnettle.bsky.social & @coraliechevallier.bsky.social ❤️🔥
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Do people judge what is going to happen in unknown situations differently depending on their socioeconomic position? Yes, if you experience lower socioeconomic position, you think the big rewards are even more unlikely to come your way: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A paper for people who like Jensen's inequality, R nerdiness, epidemiology and basic income
This means that when we model the effects of policies (.e.g labour market, welfare institutions) on health, we have to take into account their effect on income volatility as well as on people's average incomes
In a new paper, we show from longitudinal UK and France data that income volatility (fluctatuations month to month) are bad for mental and general health. And it is much badder than you would expect given the lowness of the low months:
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It's hiring season at @iast.fr!
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Delighted to announce the publication of 'From Questions to Knowledge', my new and updated statistics and data analysis handbook.
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Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
“Really thought provoking” – Natasha Devon
Dr Elliott Johnson joined @lbc.co.uk to discuss the transformative power of a #BasicIncome to enhance public health, increase financial security, and empower people across the income distribution.
Listen from 02:10:11 www.globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/...
🚨JOB alert🚨 Full-time Managing Editor role for @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour. Applicants must have animal #behaviour background; previous editorial experience would be ideal.
Apply by 31st July 2025.
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#Nouveauté // “Psychology”, la nouvelle section de la revue “Peer Community Journal”, est désormais en ligne !
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👏 Diffusion : centre Mersenne en collaboration avec UGA Éditions !
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Does anyone have any suggestions?
Also, I hope it will be a fun read and students will learn something about the field. So all in all a hard title to identify.
I also cover loads of stuff about theories, hypotheses, pre-registration, experimental design, open science, etc., so it is not just how to do a t-test etc. That's actually quite a small part.
Instead I stress how data analysis is a critical link in the process of turning your question into an answer; you need to be thinking about it already at the stage of study design
There are many considerations. I don't want it to seem too narrow or dry. I want to get away from the idea that data analysis is one step in the process, the boring one after the experiment is done, with no function other than getting the p-value
I am thinking of something like:
From Questions to Knowledge: Data Analysis for Psychology and Behavioral Science using R
Hello folks, I am writing a stats book based on my teaching materials (bookdown.org/danielnettle...). I want advice on the title.
CSPG's Epidemiology Lead @profkepickett.bsky.social in @theguardian.com making the case for Basic Income as a powerful upstream intervention to reduce pressure on the NHS and improve population health in the poorest areas.
Read more: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
#CommonSense #BasicIncome
Laypeople often learn about science from expert explanations & those explanations often contain JARGON. Does jargon make explanations better or worse? In a paper out today in Nature Human Behaviour, @cruzf.bsky.social and I find that jargon can support illusions of understanding...
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+ geom_cake()
Balloon wall art inspired by the ggplot2 hex sticker. The display features a hexagonal frame made of black balloons, filled with white balloons inside and surrounded by a background of light and dark blue balloons. A line graph with black balloon segments and round coloured nodes runs across the centre, and the word “ggplot2” is spelled out in black balloon letters below the chart.
Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats
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Beyond this, their preferences over institution design (means testing, eligibility and so forth) were pretty weak.
And of course they prefer lower taxes