Shocks, Not Habits: How Crises Reshape Water Technology Adoption in Rural India
A study of 54 rural Indian communities shows that external shocks such as policy shifts and natural hazards significantly alter ...
Tag: behavioral economics
Famous Scarcity Study May Have Misread How Poverty Shapes Attention
A new re-analysis and replication study in Nature Communications argues that the famous 'Angry Blueberries' experiment did not demonstrate an ...
Selfish and Prosocial People Both Bend the Truth About Their Impact, but Selfish Distortions Spread Further
Nine experiments with nearly 8,800 adults show that both selfish and prosocial people systematically distort the ambiguous social consequences of ...
AI Agents Match Human Averages but Diverge in How They Respond to Rewards and Penalties
A controlled experiment comparing humans with two large language models under a sequential carbon credit incentive finds that identical aggregate ...
Mental Accounting Survives Its Biggest Test Yet Across 21 Countries
A landmark study of 5,589 participants in 21 countries confirms that mental accounting—the tendency to treat identical sums of money ...
Field experiment finds noncompete clauses cut pay and mobility without guarding secrets
A randomized field experiment of more than 14,000 job offers shows that noncompete agreements reduce worker mobility and earnings by ...
Why We Underreact to Some News and Overreact to the Rest
A new Econometrica study shows that people underreact to signals when inferring hidden states but overreact to the same signals ...
Why Disliking Inequality May Go Hand in Hand with Caring About the Planet
A new exploratory study finds that people who dislike being better off than others tend to hold stronger pro-environmental attitudes, ...
Falling Behind Yourself: Perceived Decline in Wellbeing Predicts Suicidal Thoughts Better Than Income
A six-year study of nearly 15,000 South Koreans finds that perceived declines in personal wellbeing, amplified by loss aversion, predict ...
Ethiopia’s Billion-Tree Gamble: What Science Says About the Green Legacy Initiative
A new synthesis of 38 peer-reviewed studies finds Ethiopia's Green Legacy Initiative has delivered real ecological gains but faces persistent ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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