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Rationality & Society @rss-journal.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"It won't hurt me" is the quiet killer of public health norms. 💭 Horne & Johnson show masking norms hold strong when risk is universal — but crumble into "us vs. them" once only a subgroup is vulnerable. #Norms #Pandemics #HealthBehavior #Externalities Read more at: doi.org/10.1177/1043...

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Rationality & Society @rss-journal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Was “the Unready” actually the smartest king in the room? 🤔 New in Rationality & Society: Brandt & Svendesn show that Ethelred’s Danegeld payments were mathematically optimal — not weakness, not appeasement. A calculated equilibrium. #GameTheory #VikingAge #RationalChoice doi.org/10.1177/1043...

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Rationality & Society @rss-journal.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Jose Kaire shows #StrongElites face a #CollectiveAction problem when resisting dictators: power sharing creates incentives to free ride, enabling autocrats to consolidate power even when elites could resist. #Authoritarianism #PowerSharing #Dictatorship Read more at: doi.org/10.1177/1043...

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Daniel Cowen @dncwn.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

New Paper! A chapter of my dissertation looking at the time dynamics of friendship has been published! We find decreasing emphasis of demographic characteristics over time, in favour of friendships based on interests. Interesting implications on clustering! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Trends of Friends – Time dynamics of Surface- and Deep- level traits in friendship formation and maintenance

People become friends with one another primarily due to things they have in common, like shared demographic characteristics or shared interests. But o…

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Daniel Cowen @dncwn.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Debuting my BlueSky account to share my poster presentation at #IC2S2 A nice break from a regular conference presentation, I’ll be showing you about what turns a debate into an insult contest in online political discussions communities! Come past poster #16 on Wednesday (12:30-14:30) to have a chat

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