Enrico Rubaltelli

Research by @eRubaltelli et al. on charitable giving finds that people perceive cost and benefit asymmetrically, resulting in less willingness to give as donation amounts and lives helped increase. Bundling donation requests helps overcome this asymmetry. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

After all these years, prospect theory is still doing fine! Thanks @kairuggeri and @jResearchProg for asking me to be part of this amazing project! nature.com/articles/s4156…

Good luck to all investors! #globalwarming #decisionmaking #business #risk #riskperception qz.com/1490034/compan…

Why it’s so hard to get people to care about mass suffering vox.com/future-perfect…

Listen to @paulatdr on NPR; Another Mass Shooting? 'Compassion Fatigue' Is A Natural Reaction n.pr/2zEskjj

Probabilmente si può generalizzare a molti altri paesi, ma è triste vedere che succede in Italia... La TV vi fa percepire la realtà in modo distorto... molto triste! #Italia #news #percezionedelrischio #euristiche #società #economia

Probably generalizes to many other countries, but it is sad to see it happening in Italy... TV channels make you see a distorted reality... very sad! #Italia #news #perceptionofrisk #heuristics #society #economics

Scarry stuff... @NumbersNerves #arithmeticofcompassion #decisionmaking #psychology

One of the best graphics ever on long-term progress on Development, as life expectancy goes from under 40 everywhere to so much better today (by @MaxCRoser)

Implicit associations between black faces and negative concepts… Italy does not do well! figshare.com/articles/Europ…

Expenditure on education (% of GDP)

It is difficult not to feel hopeless about the climate... wri.org/blog/2018/10/8…

With a crew from NBC in the room at the refugee camp in Lucca where we lived for 7 years before moving to America. Documentary to air May 2019

Night of research @UniPadova We are present with the #EmotionalIntelligence and #SportPsychology lab. Great fun, real science and no fake news!

Perhaps the most important image of the world?

Kipchoge's incredible world record, solo for a huge portion of it, felt almost like the antithesis of the Breaking2 extravaganza. But I don't think 2:01:39 would have happened without that prior 2:00:25. #BerlinMarathon

Ai Weiwei's documentary film Human Flow provides a powerful antidote to psychic numbing. #Refugees need our empathy and our help. arithmeticofcompassion.org/stories/2018/9…

In Belgium, scientific papers that originate from public funds can now all be made public in open access, regardless of any contract with publishers. It is written in the law. And retroactive.

MTurk Bot-gate 2018, Update: Apparently the mTurk bots are humans, NOT bots. They are shady mTurkers who use server farms to conceal their identity and crack through surveys. Sean Dennis's working paper below spells out the problem--and how to fix it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…