Christian T. Elbaek

Trying out the other site as well 🦋 You can find me at @celbaek.bsky.social Still not leaving this one completely behind (yet)

Have you ever wondered why findings in organizational research are not always applicable to practical contexts & grand challenges our times? 🧐 Maybe it is the of data we sample?! New paper out in JOM Yearly Review! @CElbaek Panagiotis Mitkidis @anisha0singh Quinetta Roberson

Come join us at the Berkeley Stone Center Summer School on Inequality! Great opportunity for early-stage PhDs to get a crash course on modern inequality research.

Interested in social perspectives on dishonesty? We are organising a EASP group meeting on the future of behavioral ethics, in Berlin in May. We invite researchers of all career stages to present their work on dishonesty. You can find all info here: easp.eu/news/itm/easp_…

@nuritnobel @SJDM_Tweets Og vi kan bare snakke engelsk selvfølgelig 😅

Excited to head to NYC tomorrow for @SJDM_Tweets this weekend! If you’ll be there and want to grab a coffee, I’d be happy to meet up and talk!

@nuritnobel @SJDM_Tweets Selvfølgelig! Lad os gøre det :-)

In a megastudy, ex ante honesty oaths sometimes, but not always, reduced dishonesty, with effective treatments increasing honesty by 4.5 to 8.5 percentage points, with effectiveness dependent on content, by @Goatfield2 @CElbaek @LailaNockur @E_yal_Pe_er @ValerioCapraro @bahniks

🚨 New pre-print out! 🚨 Led by the brilliant @Kelly_Kirkland_ and in collaboration with @ChristophKlebl and @jetten_j, we investigate how perceptions of anomie (i.e., the belief that society's social and political fabric is crumbling) influence support for redistribution.

New publication: "Inequality as an Externality", w. F. Cowell in the Journal of Public Economics. We argue that most major economic models assume that economic inequality has essentially no societal consequences. Why? The idea is that economic inequality is an externality.

🚨New in @PNASNews, led by @DSchultner & Ben Stillerman: In 8 studies, we test a mechanism through which exposure to societal stereotypes—even those we know may be false—can implicitly transform into individual-level prejudice and then spread across a community.

"If the United States were to adopt the tax and transfer insurance effects of its peer countries, its intergenerational poverty persistence could decrease by more than one-third."

People support equal opportunity for all – but new large-scale evidence from the US and Scandinavia shows they do not reject inequality caused by unequal opportunities. Why? Attribution bias and fairness views. Read more: openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/hand… @nielsen_hedda @HumboldtUni

Intergenerational poverty is particularly high in the US compared to four other high income countries, report @zparolin et al., who also examine the mechanisms through which poverty persists. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Excited to share our new research! We investigated how social class shapes attitudes toward philanthropy and found that individuals from higher social classes view charitable giving more favourably and view it as a solution to societal issues. @jetten_j onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ej…

The World Bank's data portal for poverty, inequality, and growth data has gotten much better! Their replacement for the older PovcalNet is called PIP — the 'Poverty and Inequality Platform'. If you are interested in poverty it is worth having a good look around. They just updated their data. → pip.worldbank.org/home

Can honesty oaths reduce dishonesty? Check out the new megastudy in @natureHumBehav where many great researchers, including our very own @IsabelThielmann and @alicia_seidl, came together to extensively test this question! 👉🏻 doi.org/10.1038/s41562…

🚨 Just out in @PNASNews 🚨 Combining administrative registers and individual Twitter behavior among Danes, we show that multiple offline indicators predict online hostility: Having many more criminal verdicts increase the likelihood of being hostile online. But - against common stereotypes of online haters - so does having high school grades when you grew up. The reason: Hostility is about politics and those from an affluent background are much more likely to tweet about politics. All in all, hostility is not just about algorithms and the features of online discussions. Individual offline dispositions matter too. Thank you for another great collaboration to @stighebbelstrup and @boralexander1!

I and twenty-two other Nobel economists signed a letter endorsing Kamala Harris for President. We believe Harris's policies will result in a stronger economic performance, with economic growth that is more robust, more sustainable, and more equitable. cnn.com/2024/10/23/pol…

Does scarcity of resources make us more selfish or more prosocial? This question is complex, as experimental research finds that scarcity can sometimes make us more selfish and, at other times, more prosocial. Yet, these effects are not random. In this review article, we propose a conceptual framework to organize the experimental evidence. We suggest that the impact of scarcity on prosocial behavior is mediated by situational, transient individual and social factors, and moderated by enduring individual and social factors. One particular case we explore in detail is parochialism: Does scarcity increase or decrease it? Well, it depends… In societies with tight norms, where ingroups and outgroups share similar norms, scarcity increase cooperative behavior with both groups. In contrast, in societies with loose norms, scarcity may intensify parochialism. Greater uncertainty about social norms makes cooperation riskier, prompting more ingroup favoritism. We also caution that nudges based on scarcity should be applied carefully, as they may backfire. For instance, emphasizing vaccine shortages could inadvertently lead people to prioritize others they see as more in need, ultimately reducing overall vaccination uptake. The full paper is available open access at: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… w/ @claudiacivai & @CElbaek