@MaxSpohn

🎓 PhD Candidate in Public Policy @Kennedy_School 🔍 JDM & Behavioral Science | Narratives | Evidence Adoption | Polarization

 Cambridge, Massachusetts
maxspohn.com/
Joined August 2011
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A research agenda for making evidence useful, usable and used in policymaking - out in Nature Human Behavior now: nature.com/articles/s41562-0… 🎉 Reach out to chat about evidence adoption! Thanks @AmiraBoland Jessica Lasky-Fink @ElizabethLinos Weston Merrick @Pedroreybiel @tedsvo
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Just came back from my first @SJDMOfficial conference with a 3rd place in the Student Poster Award 🎉 Check out my poster on misperceptions of ideological complexity and partisan animosity here: maxspohn.com/IdeologicalComp… Thanks @JuliaMinson @CharlieDorison
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Got a chance to present my first poster (with @CharlieDorison and @JuliaMinson) at the Polarization Workshop @MIT last week: maxspohn.com/IdeologicalComp… Thanks to the organizers @kati_kish @eugen_dimant @DG_Rand and @ylelkes for a wonderful workshop!
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So many new ideas sparked by #ISPPAcademy at #ISPP2023 and so many new interesting connections - I had a blast😊
Gizem Arikan@gizem_rkn9 Jul 2023
And with this group photo we conclude three days of intense but fun training at the #ISPPAcademy😊 Big thanks to our instructors and Minnie Chappell & Sev Bennett at @PolPsyISPP Central Office and @MarketaOdlova for their hard work that made this a great experience! #ISPP2023
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Why do I feel the need to thank #ChatGPT after each response I get?
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*Introducing Reputational Rationality Theory* Are cognitive biases always irrational? Excited to share a preprint proposing a theory for when and why observers reward error-prone decision makers. Sometimes, biases can be reputationally rational. psyarxiv.com/q27sj 🧵
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Just got back from this wonderful workshop on subjective beliefs at @CEBI_UCPH with lots of new (and newly prioritized) research ideas. Thanks to @FelixChopra, @cp_roth, @Ingar30, @SettSonja, and @JoWohlfart for sharing all your insights!
Felix Chopra@FelixChopra15 Mar 2023
We are incredibly excited to kick off a three-day Ph.D. course on Subjective Beliefs, Attention, and Economic Behavior @CEBI_UCPH in Copenhagen. We have an amazing group of Ph.D. students from all over the world attending the course! @cp_roth @Ingar30 @SettSonja @JoWohlfart
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It is unconscionable that a city of 900,000 people has a downtown that's essentially a parking lot. (Columbus, OH)
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An interdisciplinary outing! Education Policy, Public Policy, and Health Policy PhDs!
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@brikightlinger @RogersJennaR @RoniYadlin @bohanthinks @MaxSpohn @mlarreboure
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Excited to share that I am starting my PhD in Public Policy @Kennedy_School this week. Can't wait to see what the next five years will bring - I hope I can share some first research ideas soon 🍾
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Finally, I wouldn't be here without my parents' support and @alix_dumoulin emotional support, and endless feedback to research ideas
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I'd also like to thank @eugen_dimant who always challenged my methodological priors and who shaped my academic interests significantly. And finally @j1berger @CaitLamberton for a first idea of what life and research as a PhD student could look like.
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@PennMBDS provided me with endless opportunities - a research project with @CBicchieri and @EnriqueFatas culminated in a publication, and I got to work with @dhopkins1776 and Nicholas Sambanis among other amazing faculty.
I am grateful for all the academic support I received throughout the years, starting off at @uclspp @lucycbarnes @HicksTM - so many of my research ideas originated early during my undergrad and I find myself going back again and again to what I learned back then
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1/ The *last* thing we need right now is more untested speculation about how to fix social media. We have *research* that can help us evaluate @elonmusk’s proposals to transform Twitter, and many of these studies might inspire him to throw some cold water on his plans 🧵
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New FCA research note on decision points in high-risk investment consumer journeys out 🎉 Many great learnings, e.g. how effective simple FAQ-style information can be and how incredibly difficult it is to test friction in online experiments. Thoughts? fca.org.uk/publication/resea…
30 behavioral scientists designed a 54 condition “megastudy” testing different 4-week digital programs to increase the gym visits of 61,293 @24hourfitness members 574 forecasters failed to predict what worked TODAY our results are out in @Nature go.nature.com/3IyUDCe
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Very good visualisation of social mobility in different countries. The actual “lands of opportunity” are not always those we expect.
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Found someone who ignores sunk costs! $150 per concert ticket, $500 for a suite, but won’t see the concert because it requires a $40 test #BehavioralEconomics
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