Ever feel like everything online is getting angrier? You’re not imagining it. Tweets with anger have surged since 2013, while neutral content has declined. 📉 And it matters for policy—our new paper shows how emotions shape what people support. socialeconomicslab.org/research/worki…

Directions of Polarization, Social Norms, and Trust in Societies—a workshop organized by Team Scientist David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social, BCFG collaborator Eugen Dimant & colleagues—is now accepting abstracts for talks and posters. Submit by July 14: sites.google.com/view/polarizat…

Starting the day with some good news 🥳 Very happy Gneezy, Krupka & I to get to honor the legacy of Gary Charness with the publication of one of his final projects. Published version will be out soon. In the meantime, here’s the final version of our ‘Norms Methods’ paper 👇🏻

Can AI replace humans in reproducing social science research? New Study with 103 teams finds: 🧑‍🔬 Human-only teams = 94% success 🤖 + 🧑‍🔬 AI-assisted = 91% success 🤖 AI-led = 37% success Humans caught more major errors & ran better robustness checks. "Despite impressive

🚨Publication Day🚨 Excited that our paper ‘Experimental Methods: Eliciting and Measuring Social Norms’ (joint with Charness, Gneezy & Krupka) is finally out in JEBO. We hope norms scholars & practitioners alike find it useful. Link (Open Access!): doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo…

🚨Publication Day🚨 (w/ Tim Krieger et al.) What happens to refugee flows when U.S. military aid rises? Using UNHCR asylum data on 170 countries (1991–2018): +10% military aid → ~7.8% more asylum applications. Economic aid does not mirror this. 🔗: ssrn.com/abstract=54148…

🚨𝐁𝐞𝐒𝐜𝐢 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 @ 𝐌𝐈𝐓🚨 The registration for our 2025 workshop ‘Directions of Polarization, Social Norms & Trust in Societies’ is now open! Keynotes: Beth Goldberg & Adam Berinsky Registration & Full Lineup: sites.google.com/view/polarizat… Yphtach Lelkes David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social Kati Kish Bar-On

Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Directions of Polarization, Social Norms, and Trust in Societies—a workshop organized by Team Scientist David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social, BCFG collaborator Eugen Dimant & colleagues—is now open for registration. Register before October 30th: sites.google.com/view/polarizat…

Presented new work (w/ Michele J. Gelfand et al.) on polarization (specifically in the wake of the 2024 U.S. election) at the fantastic Fehr & Schmidt CESifo behavioral econ conference. I’m a bit too joyful if you ask me.. Jon de Quidt If curious: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5…

🚨 Publication Day 🚨 (with Michele J. Gelfand et al.) What happens to social sanctions when politics divide us? Experiment before & after 2024 U.S. presidential election. Result: polarization weakens norms that keep behavior fair. Comments welcome! 📄 dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5…

This week's nature cover highlights a report of A.I. mediated distortion When #ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants nature.com/articles/s4158…