General advice: Use one messaging app for communicating with family/friends and one for communicating with coworkers. It is much easier than explaining why you just accidentally texted "Love you!" to your boss.
Love a good junior high civics deep cut
It depends if you begin the letter congraluating them on being part of the "silent majority" and then telling them they have an opportunity to "break their silence", "punch back", and "speak out"
But those diners in Ohio won't interview themselves!
Many real world examples of mental accounting exist: we constantly change how we value money depending on the context & amount relative to the moment. Yet there is always value in replicating the science, which we did successfully in 26 countries. @financialtimes.com asked me to write about it.
The phenomenon that makes it hard to accurately judge value — and what it tells us
Thank you!
Strongly recommend this paper (and anything else done by @ruggeri.bsky.social), specially to the critics of the use of behavioral science for public policy
5/5 The primary recommendation: Investing in those that are worst-off can have no harm on others, meaning everyone benefits. But to do it correctly, you need to learn from the people that have overcome it, their strategies, their barriers. Not just throw money at the problem and how it works out.
4/5 Our wonderful team of over 30 researchers representing many countries went through a huge number of policies and data to compile this in response to the Chater & Loewenstein paper on individual vs system frames of behavioral policy. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...