While the psychological dispositions that underlie conspiracy thinking are well researched, there has been remarkably little research on the political preferences of conspiracy believers that go beyond self-reported ideology or single political issue dimensions. Using data from the European Voter Election Study (EVES), the relationship between conspiracy thinking and attitudes on three deeper-lying and salient […]
Who believes in conspiracy theories?
Who believes in conspiracy theories?
26 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, health economics Tags: cognitive psychology, conspiracy theorists, political psychology
The curse of knowledge
25 Mar 2025 1 Comment
in economics of education, health and safety, human capital, occupational choice Tags: cognitive psychology, educational psychology
The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when someone, possessing knowledge or expertise on a particular topic, struggles to imagine or communicate with others who lack the same understanding or information. Essentially, once we know something, it’s very hard to imagine what it’s like not to know it. How it manifests: Why it happens: […]
The curse of knowledge
Arctic Instincts? The Late Pleistocene Arctic Origins of East Asian Psychology
17 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, behavioural economics, economic history Tags: cognitive psychology, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology
Highly speculative, but I found this of interest: This article explores the hypothesis that modern East Asian populations inherited and maintained extensive psychosocial adaptations to arctic environments from ancestral Ancient Northern East Asian populations, which inhabited arctic and subarctic Northeast Eurasia around the Last Glacial Maximum period of the Late Pleistocene, prior to back migrating southwards into East Asia in […]
Arctic Instincts? The Late Pleistocene Arctic Origins of East Asian Psychology
What Evolution Reveals About Human Behavior
11 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture, health economics, population economics Tags: cognitive psychology, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology
More impatient people are more likely to commit crime
09 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, econometerics, economics of crime, economics of education, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: cognitive psychology, crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
Gary Becker’s famous model of rational crime suggests that criminals weigh up the costs and benefits of crime (and engage in a criminal act if the benefits outweigh the costs). Time preferences matter in this model, because the benefits of a criminal act are usually realised immediately, whereas the greatest costs (including the penalties of…
More impatient people are more likely to commit crime
Invincible ignorance
25 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of information Tags: cognitive psychology, conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science
“Invincible ignorance” refers to a state of ignorance that cannot be overcome because the individual has no way of accessing or understanding the necessary information. This concept is often discussed in moral and ethical contexts, particularly in philosophy and theology. In these contexts, invincible ignorance is the lack of knowledge that is literally impossible for […]
Invincible ignorance
The Five Laws Of Stupidity
15 Jul 2022 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: cognitive psychology
Is it a conspiracy?
13 Sep 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture, Marxist economics Tags: cognitive psychology, conspiracy theorists, political psychology
Jordan Peterson ~ The Uncomfortable Fact About IQ
03 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: cognitive psychology
Why Empathy Is Not the Best Way to Care | Paul Bloom | Big Think
03 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: cognitive psychology, moral psychology
Another fatal conceit
30 Jun 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: cognitive psychology
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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