Eugen Dimant

❥ An eventful year is coming to a close: ⦿ 8 new journal pubs ⦿ 1 R&R @PNASNews ⦿ 2 new preprints + stuff I’m excited about in 2025 My recap is also an opportunity to thank all my mentors & colleagues (+ gratitude that I’m not deadwood yet). A short🧵with insights & links

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

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…

🚨 New paper alert: Economists in 🇫🇷 France, 🇨🇦Canada, and 🇬🇧the U.K. just released what looks like a tour-de-force on the economics of artwork. It's big. 🎨📉📈 Here’s what they did. First, they collected and digitized 630,000 paintings dating from the year 1400 to the…

Stanford paid 35,000 people to quit social media. This was the largest study on emotional health in history. The results were so shocking, scientists called it "comparable to therapy." Here's what happens when you break free from the algorithm: 🧵

📣 Call for Papers 📣 Interested in the newest research on polarization, norms & trust? Present your work our workshop on Dec 5-6 @ MIT, co-organized with @DG_Rand, @ylelkes @AdamBerinsky & @kati_kish 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: sites.google.com/view/polarizat… 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: July 14

Bzgl. #regimechange in #Iran: Es hilft, einen Plan für die Zeit danach sowie Geduld zu haben. Beides scheint mir in der aktuellen US-Administration nicht besonders ausgeprägt zu sein. Wir haben ein paar Gedanken zu etwas Vergleichbaren in cepr.org/publications/b… aufgeschrieben.

Happy to spread the word about this event. I participated last year and it was very meaningful and impactful. @MIT @kati_kish @DG_Rand @eugen_dimant @DanielPAldrich

Ok so this is a new one: an R&R of a methods overview paper where the reviewer pleads the editor to reconsider their rules or else they have to recommend a rejection🤔 Also, the same type of methods papers (involving @alexolegimas et al) have probably amassed >5,000 citations 🤷🏻‍♂️

🔥New publication on dishonesty🔥 In a new collaborative paper (led by Shaul Shalvi), we review the key interdisciplinary frameworks on (dis)honesty & offer 66 open questions to guide future work 🔗(OA) doi.org/10.1016/bs.aes… @IsabelThielmann @ValerioCapraro @JF_Schulz et al.

Hey #NEPS #PeaceScience fam! Thrilled that our paper w/ @eugen_dimant & Daniel Meierrieks—“Paying Them to Hate US” (@EJ_RES 24)—made the NEPS Medal 2025 shortlist!🥳 If it speaks to you, pop your vote in by email before 20 May👉doi.org/10.1093/ej/uea… @UniFreiburg #econtwitter

You've heard of the studies where they give the same dataset/research question to a bunch of researchers and they tend to get different answers, right? Why is that? This new working paper shows that it has a lot to do with data cleaning. This is consistent with Gelman's…

Why are voters and parties so divided on cultural issues? Why do low-income voters support the right? This paper shows that economic change raising the salience of the educational divide can shift voters' social identities, explaining these phenomena. econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

👇🏻 @TheIHS features our latest research on political polarization (joint with @DG_Rand @kati_kish @ylelkes) Article: theihs.org/blog/understan… @PNASNexus Paper: doi.org/10.1093/pnasne…

American terrorism: When US military aid has unintended consequences Last week on VoxDev, @eugen_dimant (@PennMBDS), @TimKriegerFR (@UniFreiburg) & Daniel Meierrieks (@WZB_Berlin) explored the implications of military aid: voxdev.org/topic/institut…

💭Working on social norms?💭 We (Charness, Gneezy, Dimant & Krupka) have a new paper comparing leading methods for measuring norms + guidance when & how to use them. Goal: help researchers/practitioners select the right tool for their specific needs. 📄 tinyurl.com/CharnessEtAl20…

US military aid has ramped up considerably in the last two decades. What are the implications of this on US foreign policy? Read today's article w/ @eugen_dimant (@PennMBDS), @TimKriegerFR (@UniFreiburg) & Daniel Meierrieks (@WZB_Berlin) to learn more: x.com/vox_dev/status…