Moshe Hoffman

@Moshe_Hoffman

Research Scientist . Lecturer . Tweets bout 1) endemic problems in academia, 2) puzzling social behaviors, 3) subtle incentives at play.

Cambridge, MA
Vrijeme pridruživanja: kolovoz 2011.

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    3. ruj 2019.

    Our class “Game Theory and Social Behavior” is again being video recorded. (This time w/ giving the lectures. He’s extremely clear & engaging). Syllabus👇. Dm me if want to be added to course website, for access psets/readings/lecture recordings.

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    Why does the Iowa caucus matter so much? It's not because Iowa shows anything about electability. It's because the primary presents a big coordination problem, and the Iowa caucus helps to solve it. (A thread)

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  3. prije 13 sati
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  4. prije 13 sati

    It’s almost like in both cases the goal is not to inform but to justify. 👇 (Justify in a way that avoids potentially costly confrontation.)

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  5. 1. velj

    A nice empirical demonstration of how our sense of identity is endogenous and tracks the incentive structure 👇. (Voters switch allegiances, and sense of identity, as the party and their leaders demand, right after the primaries.)

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    (This is also a good example where ignoring endogeneity and malleability of deeply held feelings will lead you very far astray. As Ezra seems to be trying to say.)

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    Another obvious case where incentives (in this case, the incentives of coalitions and their leaders to push their preferred candidate) influence our deeply held feelings. (The feelings before vs after primary is rather stark. & imo 💪 evidence for causal role of such incentives)

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    1. velj

    nothing makes sense except in the light of reputation!

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    I agree that this belongs in intro psych textbooks. But not to illustrate how dissonance & dissonance reduction *explain* behavior. But to to illustrate how the psychology dissonance & dissonance reduction are best understood by thinking about reputational management.

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    W/ all due respect, This is a perfect illustration, imo, of how classic social psych gets direction of causality backwards. Dissonance reduction isn’t the *cause* of Murkoski‘ & Alexander’s statement. Reputation management is. Dissonance is, at best, the psychological mediator.

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    (Of course, in lab studies, role of reputations is harder to see. because they are stripped of any real reputational consequences. Doesn’t mean the psychology these studies tap into isn’t designed for contexts like M & A are dealing w/.)

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    (What’s best way to understand M & A’s behavior? Driven by a psychological need to reduce dissonance? Or driven by a real need to maintain their electorate, possibly somewhat mediated by their own feelings of discomfort?)

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    A nice ex.👇illustrating how ‘cognitive dissonance’ is ultimately driven by reputation management. (What could M & A do to minimize how unprincipled they appear to their voters?<—best way to predict the behaviors that will ‘reduce their dissonance’.)

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  14. 24. sij

    If you think rights and fairnsss are dictated by abstract truths and not bargaining power, look to how the Kurds are treated, what they are willing to put up w/ w/o complaint, and our bar for what’s considered unfair.

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    22. sij
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    22. sij

    I recommend this thread for understanding why *political psychology* (the interaction of social and cognitive psychology with political institutions) brings important insights that pure social psychology does not.

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    22. sij
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    22. sij
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  20. 22. sij

    A thread on the psychology of hate 👇. (Why I think it’s insightful. But what I think it’s leaving out.)

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  21. 22. sij

    Thus, to have real impact, imo, we really ought to be targeting the structural problems. The incentive problems. The things that determine when the relevant psychology comes on line. And makes targeting that psychology, directly, an up-hill battle. Eom

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