Daniel Nettle
Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS, Paris
www.danielnettle.eu
- Reposted by Daniel Nettle🔺 New preprint 🔺 Why does poverty increase time discounting? With W. Frankenhuis and @danielnettle.bsky.social, we argue that current models do not account for discounting in *persistent* poverty, and show that a desperation threshold can! A quick 🧵
- Reposted by Daniel NettleThis week, we talk to @danielnettle.bsky.social about big picture issues in the evolutionary social sciences, craving sugar, income inequality, running, and more! youtu.be/-NPuZSolsEs podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... www.podbean.com/eas/pb-9hsnf...
- Reposted by Daniel NettleNEW: We show and replicate socioeconomic gradients in heuristics for decision-making under uncertainty, possibly reflecting adaptations varying levels of scarcity and competition for resources 🫰 Shoutout and thanks to @danielnettle.bsky.social & @coraliechevallier.bsky.social ❤️🔥 tinyurl.com/mu7rzz6k
- Do people judge what is going to happen in unknown situations differently depending on their socioeconomic position? Yes, if you experience lower socioeconomic position, you think the big rewards are even more unlikely to come your way: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- In a new paper, we show from longitudinal UK and France data that income volatility (fluctatuations month to month) are bad for mental and general health. And it is much badder than you would expect given the lowness of the low months: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
- This means that when we model the effects of policies (.e.g labour market, welfare institutions) on health, we have to take into account their effect on income volatility as well as on people's average incomes
- A paper for people who like Jensen's inequality, R nerdiness, epidemiology and basic income
- Reposted by Daniel NettleIt's hiring season at @iast.fr! - 2y research postdoc contract - Full autonomy, you are your own PI - Awesome multidisciplinary environment - All social and behavioral sciences welcome - Seed funding for projects and workshops - Gorgeous city in the south of France www.iast.fr/research-fel...
- Delighted to announce the publication of 'From Questions to Knowledge', my new and updated statistics and data analysis handbook. www.danielnettle.eu/2025/09/14/f...
- Reposted by Daniel NettleExperimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
- Reposted by Daniel Nettle“Really thought provoking” – Natasha Devon Dr Elliott Johnson joined @lbc.co.uk to discuss the transformative power of a #BasicIncome to enhance public health, increase financial security, and empower people across the income distribution. Listen from 02:10:11 www.globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/...
- Reposted by Daniel Nettle🚨JOB alert🚨 Full-time Managing Editor role for @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour. Applicants must have animal #behaviour background; previous editorial experience would be ideal. Apply by 31st July 2025. #publishing #editor #job More details: www.asab.org/opportunities PLEASE share widely.
- Reposted by Daniel Nettle#Nouveauté // “Psychology”, la nouvelle section de la revue “Peer Community Journal”, est désormais en ligne ! 👉 www.uga-editions.com/uga-editions... 👏 Diffusion : centre Mersenne en collaboration avec UGA Éditions ! @ugrenoblealpes.bsky.social @centre-mersenne.bsky.social
- Hello folks, I am writing a stats book based on my teaching materials (bookdown.org/danielnettle...). I want advice on the title.
- I am thinking of something like: From Questions to Knowledge: Data Analysis for Psychology and Behavioral Science using R
- There are many considerations. I don't want it to seem too narrow or dry. I want to get away from the idea that data analysis is one step in the process, the boring one after the experiment is done, with no function other than getting the p-value
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View full threadDoes anyone have any suggestions?
- Reposted by Daniel NettleCSPG's Epidemiology Lead @profkepickett.bsky.social in @theguardian.com making the case for Basic Income as a powerful upstream intervention to reduce pressure on the NHS and improve population health in the poorest areas. Read more: www.theguardian.com/society/2025... #CommonSense #BasicIncome
- Reposted by Daniel NettleLaypeople often learn about science from expert explanations & those explanations often contain JARGON. Does jargon make explanations better or worse? In a paper out today in Nature Human Behaviour, @cruzf.bsky.social and I find that jargon can support illusions of understanding...
- Reposted by Daniel NettleHappy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats
- Reposted by Daniel NettleNext deadline for submitting a proposal for a special issue in @royalsocietypublishing.org #PhilTransB is July 18th. I'm on the editorial board and would highly recommend it as an opportunity for new networks, insights and highlighting your field. Find out more at bit.ly/PTBproposals
- What do people want from a welfare system? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Using a conjoint design with UK adults, we show that the most important things people consider are the rate of poverty (lower is better) and the cost (lower is also better)
- They are rather Rawlsian: they give a lot of weight to impact on the worst off (actually, Kolm-Pollak more than Rawls, but it's going that way)
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View full threadBeyond this, their preferences over institution design (means testing, eligibility and so forth) were pretty weak.
- Reposted by Daniel Nettle"Rethinking Ostensive Communication in an Evolutionary, Comparative, and Developmental Perspective" now published in Psychological Review psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
- Why is income volatility bad for physical and mental health? osf.io/preprints/so...
- In this paper that having an income that goes up and down from month to month is as strongly associated with poor health as having a low income is.
- Part of this is predictable: because of the non-linearity of the income-health association, a given down-fluctuation is always going to be worse than a given up-fluctuation is good
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View full threadAs in most of my work, there is a guest appearance from Jensen's inequality
- Reposted by Daniel NettleWe often have to judge who is knowledgeable—precisely when we are not. Can humans really do that? Our new paper in Psychological Science shows that, surprisingly, we can. drive.google.com/file/d/1b15E...
- Our new book 'Basic Income: The Policy That Changes Everything' is published today: policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/basic-...
- No prizes for guessing our conclusions....but this book is a detailed pragmatic case for BI based on the positive consequences of giving people an unconditional safety net for health, decision making, relationships and communities. It emphasizes BI's role in providing dignity and security
- Although the arguments are general, we apply them to the UK as a case study, going into detail about levels, funding, and why this is the right reform at the right time
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View full thread“This book is a real achievement: using astute modeling and pathbreaking arguments around health and economy, the authors make the clearest case yet for a basic income. If you are a sceptic or an advocate, you need to read this.” Will Stronge, The Autonomy Institute
- Reposted by Daniel Nettle🧵New paper out in Cognition Why do people moralize harmless carnal sins (e.g. gluttony, masturbation)? @danielnettle.bsky.social & I find that these behaviors activate reciprocity-based moral judgment—no need for a distinct "purity" module. 50 days free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l18D2Hx2-...
- New paper from @lfitouchi.bsky.social: Why do people moralize harmless bodily pleasures? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
