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Higher economic inequality intensifies the financial hardship of people living in poverty by fraying the community buffer

Jachimowicz et al. find that increased income inequality increases financial hardship particularly for individuals with low income, in part by weakening the community buffer that could otherwise offer support.

Jon M. Jachimowicz
Barnabas Szaszi
Elke U. Weber
Research30 Mar 2020
Nature Human Behaviour

Volume: 4, P: 702-712
Measuring inequality beyond the Gini coefficient may clarify conflicting findings

Moving beyond the Gini coefficient in studying inequality, Blesch et al. identify two parameters that capture inequality concentrated at the top and bottom. The results challenge mixed associations between inequality and policy outcomes.

Kristin Blesch
Oliver P. Hauser
Jon M. Jachimowicz
Research29 Aug 2022
Nature Human Behaviour

Volume: 6, P: 1525-1536
The critical role of second-order normative beliefs in predicting energy conservation

Analyses of data from 211 independent, randomized controlled trials (N = 16,198,595) show that second-order normative beliefs—community members’ belief that saving energy helps the environment—play a critical role in promoting energy conservation.

Jon M. Jachimowicz
Oliver P. Hauser
Adam D. Galinsky
Research17 Sept 2018
Nature Human Behaviour

Volume: 2, P: 757-764
Three thumbs up for social norms

Social norm interventions are widely used to foster residential resource conservation. Now researchers have shown that the effectiveness of providing information about others’ energy use alongside messages of social approval for energy savings behaviour depends on the strength and consistency of these messages.

Jon M. Jachimowicz
News & Views02 Nov 2020
Nature Energy

Volume: 5, P: 826-827
Embracing field studies as a tool for learning

Field studies in social psychology tend to focus on validating existing insights. In addition to learning from the laboratory and bringing those insights to the field — which researchers currently favour — we should also conduct field studies that aim to learn in the field first.

Jon M. Jachimowicz
Comments & Opinion23 Mar 2022
Nature Reviews Psychology

Volume: 1, P: 249-250