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Boredom and psychopathy
No full textThe purpose of the study is to examine the relation between Boredom Proneness and Psychopathy
Increasing take-up of pandemic anti-poverty tax credits among non-filers in California (experiment 1)
No full textThis project will evaluate the impact of outreach strategies and resources aimed at encouraging and helping likely non-filers file a return to claim anti-poverty tax credits. Working with the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) and Code for America, we will conduct a randomized experiment with a sample of 142,308 likely non-filer households who have opted into text and email communication. We will test the impact of highlighting the availability of live navigators on the completion of the simplified non-filer return, and eventual claiming of federal stimulus payments and, for families with children, the Child Tax Credit
Taking a disagreeing perspective improves the accuracy of people’s quantitative estimates
No full textMany decisions rest upon people’s ability to make estimates of unknown quantities. In these judgments, the aggregate estimate of a crowd of individuals is often more accurate than most individual estimates. Remarkably, similar principles apply when aggregating multiple estimates from the same person and a key challenge is to identify strategies that improve the accuracy of people’s aggregate estimates. Here, we present the following strategy: combine people’s first estimate with their second estimate made from the perspective of someone they often disagree with. In five pre-registered experiments (N = 6425, with 53,086 estimates) with populations from the US and UK, we find that such a strategy produces accurate estimates (as compared to when people make a second guess, or when second estimates are made from the perspective of someone they often agree with). These results suggest that disagreement, often highlighted for its negative impact, is a powerful tool in producing accurate judgments
COVID-19: Trainee TEACHers’ challenges and barriers to mental health and WELLbeing support (TEACH WELL)
No full textThis project examines at the impact of COVID-19 on early years teacher's mental wellbeing over the course of their placement year and involves the co-creation of resouces with trainees for future trainees