Christian T. Elbaek
Assistant Professor at Aarhus University | investigating how scarcity and economic inequality influences financial and moral judgment & decision-making
Website: au.dk/en/chel@mgmt.au.dk
- Reposted by Christian T. ElbaekIt has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
- Reposted by Christian T. Elbaek🔬 How has psychology contributed to achieving the 🇺🇳 SDGs? Our new preprint maps 230,000 psychology articles to the SDGs using our text2sdg R package (www.text2sdg.io) and analyzes historical trends in topics, national and gendered contributions, and citation patterns. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2512.08628
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- Reposted by Christian T. Elbaek1/ Does growing up poor always lead to political apathy? Very happy to share my first paper published (open access) in @electoralstudies.bsky.social, where I show that parents' influence mitigates the poverty gap in participation, while economic mobility does not. 🔗 shorturl.at/p5Bac
- Reposted by Christian T. ElbaekNew paper in Science: In a platform-independent field experiment, we show that reranking content expressing antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity in social media feeds alters affective polarization. 🧵
- Proud to have signed letter from 600+ economists & inequality experts from 70 countries supporting the call for a new Independent Panel on Inequality- an Inequality IPCC- to tackle the inequality emergency- G20 leaders must support this. #G20SouthAfrica www.independent.co.uk/news/south-a...
- Reposted by Christian T. ElbaekFour (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil... Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy. Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs
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- Reposted by Christian T. ElbaekPublished today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess
- Reposted by Christian T. ElbaekThis #SPSP preconference 1st happened in January of 2016 when the area was 'emerging'. It's more arrived than emerging these days. I will talk about how to approach inequality scholarship (be it central or peripheral to your research question) from a functional perspective: rdcu.be/eBHv8
- SPSP Economic Inequality & Social Class Preconference is back! Speakers include: @mwkraus.bsky.social @andreicimpian.bsky.social @frederiqueautin.bsky.social @celbaek.bsky.social Submit flash talk: tinyurl.com/2r79dwrr With @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social, Bruno Gabriel S Casara, Ivan Cano, Paul Piff
- Interested in how social psychology can illuminate socioeconomic inequality? Come join us for the preconference on economic inequality and social class at SPSP!
- SPSP Economic Inequality & Social Class Preconference is back! Speakers include: @mwkraus.bsky.social @andreicimpian.bsky.social @frederiqueautin.bsky.social @celbaek.bsky.social Submit flash talk: tinyurl.com/2r79dwrr With @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social, Bruno Gabriel S Casara, Ivan Cano, Paul Piff
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- Reposted by Christian T. ElbaekAn international call for action just got louder: Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally 🧵 www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
- On my way to #ISPP2025 in Prague! Very excited for our symposium on Saturday at 3:10PM arranged by @fransolmar.bsky.social: “Unpacking support for redistribution: Psychological mechanisms and interventions” Feel free to reach out if you want to meet up for a coffee and chat!
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- Reposted by Christian T. ElbaekWhat do tax cuts for the rich do? They increase inequality. They have no effect on economic growth or unemployment. "Our results provide strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy."
- Reposted by Christian T. Elbaek1. After getting some further insight into changes at NSF (thanks to those who reached out), I deleted a previous post where I tried to make sense of Cheatham's memo as reported in the Science story below.
- Reposted by Christian T. Elbaek‼️If you haven't seen the call already, this is your reminder‼️ 3-year postdoc in computational social science at Aarhus University to study societal norms about political power 🫅 I'll be @comptext.bsky.social in Vienna (April 24-26) if you want to meet up and hear more about the position ☕🗣️
- 💥Postdoc call 💥 Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University 🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension) ❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth 🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data) Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD
- My brilliant postdoc, @fransolmar.bsky.social, recently published experimental evidence suggesting that perceived inequities in health and education can drive support to reduce economic inequality. Really cool work!
- Reposted by Christian T. ElbaekNew paper “Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex” in @nature.com led by @mkwittmann.bsky.social with many others. We show basis functions code relations between people, similar to their role in other perceptual and motor domains www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Christian T. ElbaekWant to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations
- Reposted by Christian T. ElbaekEvery scientist, long before they were a scientist, was a little kid who stood in front of a fish tank or stared up at the stars or turned over a rock to look at the bugs underneath and said “wow”. On the best days, working in science still feels like that.
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- Reposted by Christian T. ElbaekDoes poverty lead to risk taking or risk avoidance? Turns out, to both. Our new paper (with D. Nettle & W. Frankenhuis) in @royalsocietypublishing.org explains why, and conducts preregistered tests of our ‘desperation threshold’ model. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... A 🧵
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- Check out our new paper just out in Journal of Management
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- Reposted by Christian T. Elbaek📣 Call for Papers: submission deadline 14 Mar Workshop on the Economics of Taxation 🗓️ 3-4 June 📍Barcelona Topics: #CorporateTax, inequality, #OffshoreWealth & more Keynotes: @dinapomeranz.bsky.social (University of Zurich) & Youssef Benzarti (UC Santa Barbara) 👉 taxobservatory.eu/event/worksh...
- Very proud to have been a part of this! Kudos to the core team for pulling off such a massive project!
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- Fascinating recent work highlighting that "...the larger the share of national income and wealth going to the top one percent and top 10% of the population, the more likely the democracy is to erode." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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- Interested in social perspectives on dishonesty? We are organising a EASP group meeting on the future of behavioral ethics, in Berlin in May. We invite researchers of all career stages to present their work on dishonesty. You can find all info here: www.easp.eu/news/itm/eas...
