In the new issue of British Journal of Political Science, you will find an article by me. Here is the abstract: In order to explain differences in political interest, two strands of literature point to the relevance of either dispositional or situational factors. I remedy this and show how political interest is shaped by the […]
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Ten ways to slightly improve your life without really trying
In The Guardian, there is an article with a list of 100 ways to slightly improve your life (without really trying). I do not agree with all of them (for various reasons), so I decided to pick out the ten I believe provide the greatest marginal gain: Get the lighting right: turn off the overhead […]
New article in Behavioural Public Policy: Reporting on one’s behavior
Together with Pelle Guldborg Hansen and Caroline Drøgemüller Gundersen, I have a new article in Behavioural Public Policy. The paper is titled “Reporting on one’s behavior: a survey experiment on the nonvalidity of self-reported COVID-19 hygiene-relevant routine behaviors”. Here is the abstract: Surveys based on self-reported hygiene-relevant routine behaviors have played a crucial role in […]
25 interesting facts #16
376. A sixth of the carbon footprint of average EU diets is due to tropical deforestation emissions (Pendrill et al. 2019) 377. In blind taste tests, there is no consistent preference for Coke or Pepsi (Van Doorn and Miloyan 2018) 378. Alphabetic writing was probably invented during the Bronze Age (Höflmayer et al. 2021) 379. […]
New article in Journal of Political Science Education: Beyond the Numbers
Together with Gianna Maria Eick, Ben Baumberg Geiger and Trude Sundberg, I have an article in the new issue of Journal of Political Science Education. Here is the abstract: A number of studies demonstrate that quantitative teaching provides social science students with analytical and critical skills. Accordingly, the skills acquired during quantitative teaching are assumed […]