251. Democratization is associated with more deforestation (Sanford 2021) 252. Since the 1950s, there has been a moral aversion to using water as a weapon in armed conflicts (Grech-Madin 2021) 253. People with disagreeable personalities do not have an advantage in pursuing power at work (Anderson et al. 2020) 254. Overconfidence in news judgments is […]
Category: science
How to study
I was reading this article on how to study. The article provides great advice, such as space out your study sessions and rely on retrieval practice. That made me reflect upon my own approach to studying and how it has changed over time. When I started studying (many years ago now!), I read every single […]
Updating the replication material for “Welfare Retrenchments and Government Support”
In 2017, I pushed the replication material for my article, ‘Welfare Retrenchments and Government Support’, to a GitHub repository. I had been working on the article for years and the code was not necessarily up to date. It worked perfectly, gave the exact estimates and was relatively easy to read. Accordingly, everything was good, life […]
25 interesting facts #10
226. People scoring higher in narcissism participate more in politics (Fazekas and Hatemi 2021) 227. Hitler’s speeches had a negligible impact on the Nazis’ electoral fortunes (Selb and Munzert 2018) 228. People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years (Ellis et al. 2021) 229. Introverted people listen to more punk music […]
Social science research during COVID-19 #2
I have been reading a few papers on conspiracy theories in relation to COVID-19 (primarily because I was asked to read a study on this topic for a journal). In parallel, I have been following the debates taking place between scientists on the origin of COVID-19. In this post, I will argue that there are […]