Current knowledge about mechanisms and interventions for pain has largely been derived
from samples that are healthier, wealthier, younger, and more likely to be White than the …

Subjective perceptions of inequality can substantially influence policy attitudes, public health
metrics, and societal well‐being, but the lack of consensus in the scientific community on …

The synergies and trade-offs between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) influence
their ultimate achievement. Poverty eradication is the first goal of the SDGs, and the impact …

Two pre-registered experiments (Total N= 822) explored the effect of economic inequality on
social class stereotyping and the social mechanisms driving this relationship. In both …

The onset of the 2020 global COVID-19 pandemic led to a marked increase in positive
discussion of Universal Basic Income (UBI) in political and media circles. However, we do …

Why do many societies moralize apparently harmless pleasures, such as lust, gluttony,
alcohol, drugs, and even music and dance? Why do they erect temperance, asceticism …

Billions of people lack access to inexpensive clean energy and live in energy poverty.
However, exogenous shocks like pandemics or extremely high temperatures can …

This paper represents a collaboration between a policy researcher and a behavioural
scientist who studies cooperation. Our goal was to develop a shared understanding of one …

We postulate that at least two distinct cognitive systems affect political judgements. The first
system, moral cognition, delivers intuitions about what societal outcomes would be ideal …

Poverty is associated with higher rates of mental illness and lower levels of well‐being.
Poverty affects mental health and well‐being through a range of mechanisms, one of which …