Using data from over 60,000 individuals across 30 countries, we show that low-income individuals experience boredom more often.

Boredom is also more “toxic” among low-income individuals (more strongly linked to feelings of sadness, anxiety and loneliness).

We’ve studied the relationship between income and happiness for decades.

But what about income and boredom?

Our paper is finally out in the Journal of Economic Psychology!

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Although our boredom manipulation did not directly affect participants’ tendency to transfer or steal money from another player, it did reduce their sense of agency — and this reduced agency, in turn, was linked to both increased prosocial and antisocial behavior.

New WP out (with Daniel Navarro-Martinez)!

We present a guide of field environments and behaviors that social preference games are expected to generalize to, using insights from experimental economists.

Full paper:
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