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 […]
Category: science
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 […]
Skaber sociale medier ekkokamre? #5
I 2017, 2018, 2019 og 2020 skrev jeg om, hvorvidt og i hvilket omfang sociale medier skaber ekkokamre. Nu hvor 2021 så småt er ved at gå på hæld, tænkte jeg, at det ville være relevant at belyse et par af de nye studier, der direkte eller indirekte kigger på, hvorvidt sociale medier skaber ekkokamre. […]
The psychological underpinnings of policy feedback effects
There has been a lot of scholarly attention devoted to explaining why policies have feedback effects on public opinion. In my review of the policy feedback literature, I made the following observation on the attention to potential explanations in the literature (p. 374): Soss and Schram (2007), for example, elaborate that policies change basic features […]