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Eugenio Proto

@eugenioproto.bsky.social
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Professor of Economics University of Glasgow, CEPR, IZA and CesIfo. Behavioural, Experimental Economics . Mental Health. Website: sites.google.com/view/eugenioproto-…

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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Why does personality shape economic decisions as much as incentives do? I sat down to talk psychology, neuroscience, and economics. 🎥 youtu.be/7_SPXuXneUg
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Inside the Mind of an Economist: Dr. Eugenio Proto on Personality and Choice
YouTube video by Business Talk
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Something is clear the UK press is doing its job , unlike in the US unfortunately www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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The tangled financial web at the heart of Reform UK
Nigel Farage’s £5m gift, the Cottrell family’s links and donations, and Richard Tice’s business dealings form part of an increasingly clear nexus of relationships
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This is a very interesting pool, the left should find a common ground to work together , that’s the only way to overcome this crisis
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Using a framework separating parents’ beliefs about how their child feels from parents’ beliefs about what their child would report, we estimate that roughly 70% of the parent–child gap is explained by information frictions, not just different “reporting styles.” @cesifo.org www.ifo.de/cesifo/Kti
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Applications open for the MSc in Behavioural Science at the University of Glasgow: 11 full tuition-fee scholarships available. Two tracks (Science & Business/Econ) combining rigorous theory + applied behavioural research. Both lead to academic or non-academic careers. www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
gla.ac.uk
University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Taught degree programmes A‑Z - Behavioural Science
Our Masters in Behavioural Science is a unique programme run by the Adam Smith Business School and the School of Psychology & Neuroscience. We aim to shape tomorrow’s behavioural scientists through an...
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Unbelievable!
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
“That leaves Republicans in Congress as the last barrier. They owe it to the American people, and to the world, to stop Trump from acting out his fantasy in Greenland and doing permanent damage to American interests.”
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Eventually there will be more troops than people and little auk in Greenland !
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Indeed
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The lack of empathy of the most powerful person in the world is disturbing. I hope American society will be able to react to that
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Where Karl Marx Went Wrong: Nationalism Supersedes Socioeconomic Class
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Applications open for the MSc in Behavioural Science at the University of Glasgow: 11 full tuition-fee scholarships available. Two tracks (Science & Business/Econ) combining rigorous theory + applied behavioural research. Both lead to academic or non-academic careers. www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
gla.ac.uk
University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Taught degree programmes A‑Z - Behavioural Science
Our Masters in Behavioural Science is a unique programme run by the Adam Smith Business School and the School of Psychology & Neuroscience. We aim to shape tomorrow’s behavioural scientists through an...
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The main takeaway: people are surprisingly good — on average — at adapting to new realities, combining pre- and post-shock information wisely.
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Happy to join a panel next Wednesday, 19th November, to discuss this important topic on wellbeing and productivity. The event will be held online. #HappinessAtWork #BehaviouralEconomics
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The main takeaway: people are surprisingly good — on average — at adapting to new realities, combining pre- and post-shock information wisely.
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Happy to join a panel next Wednesday, 19th November, to discuss this important topic on wellbeing and productivity. The event will be held online.
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Happy to join a panel next Wednesday, 19th November, to discuss this important topic on wellbeing and productivity. The event will be held online. #HappinessAtWork #BehaviouralEconomics
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
A Nobel Prize dedicated to the forces driving technological progress — and a reminder to reflect on the waves of creative destruction that AI may soon unleash. www.nobelprize.org
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The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Thrilled to share that our article “Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events” is forthcoming in the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA). (with C. K. Becker, T. Melkonyan, @andissofianos.bsky.social Sofianos, S.T. Trautmann) (1/5) 👉 academic.oup.com/jeea/advance...
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Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events
Abstract. Bayesian updating is the dominant theory of learning. However, the theory is silent about how individuals react to events that were previously un
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Thrilled to share that our article “Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events” is forthcoming in the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA). (with C. K. Becker, T. Melkonyan, @andissofianos.bsky.social Sofianos, S.T. Trautmann) (1/5) 👉 academic.oup.com/jeea/advance...
academic.oup.com
Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events
Abstract. Bayesian updating is the dominant theory of learning. However, the theory is silent about how individuals react to events that were previously un
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Donald Trump is becoming the greatest unifier of Europe since the end of the cold war www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Donald Trump is becoming the greatest unifier of Europe since the end of the cold war | Fabrizio Tassinari
The US president may be helping Putin to destroy the west, but his vanity is causing Europeans to speak with one voice in defence of Ukraine, says Fabrizio Tassinari of the European University Institu...
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
And just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, it goes deeper.
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Thank you for the invitation to this wonderful workshop. It was a real pleasure participating. (Yes, that stunning background is real!)
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
The Demand for Bad Policy workshop in Bolzano . www.unibz.it/en/events/th... The Demand for Bad Policy / Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
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28 Jul 2025 09:30 - 29 Jul 2025 19:30 / The Demand for Bad Policy
Why do citizens support policies that harm society? Join The Demand for Bad Policy, a two-day workshop with top scholars in political economy and behavioral science.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Asylum-seekers get £49 a week loaded onto a pre-paid card if they're not in catered accommodation. They get £10 if they are. And yet nearly a third of voters think government spending helps 'immigrants' **most of all**. Insane and frightening.
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
An old article, but still very timely www.psychreg.org/emotions-ele...
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Emotions Are Key to Deciding Elections, Not Economics or Party Platforms – According to Research
Elections and referendums may be being decided by the emotional well-being of voters, new research from the University of Warwick suggests.
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
📢Applications are now open for the 2024/25 academic year for the MSc in Behavioural Science. This unique programme is co-run by the Adam Smith Business School and the School of Psychology & Neuroscience. 📢Several full scholarships are available : www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
gla.ac.uk
University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Taught degree programmes A‑Z - Behavioural Science
The Masters in Behavioural Science is a unique programme co-run by the Adam Smith Business School and the School of Psychology & Neuroscience. It aims to shape tomorrow’s behavioural scientists throug...
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Unhappiness & distrust fuel populism. Chapter 7 of the 2025 World Happiness Report shows low life satisfaction predicts support for populists—from Trump to Brexit. Less trust, more anger = votes for “strongmen.” 🔗 worldhappiness.report/ed/2025/trus... #Populism #Trust
worldhappiness.report
Trusting others: How unhappiness and social distrust explain populism
The World Happiness Report is published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, in partnership with Gallup, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and an independent ed...
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Our experiments are only as strong as their ability to be replicated Pleased to see our 2022 study on intelligence & strategy in repeated games validated by a high-powered experiment. Thanks to Michalis & Graeme.
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
This is definitely a good book to read for a 14yo, interested in behavioural economics !
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Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
Here is a behavioral economics starter pack to easily find researchers in that area on BSky. (let me know if I should add you) go.bsky.app/Ku4zvbT
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Our experiments are only as strong as their ability to be replicated Pleased to see our 2022 study on intelligence & strategy in repeated games validated by a high-powered experiment. Thanks to Michalis & Graeme.
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Enjoying the Finnish Summer
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Starmer made strategic and communication’s mistakes, yes. But left wing media should be more constructive , it is not easy to re-invent a left wing party in periods like these
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Pre-school Head Start certificate. My wife in Boston 1977, another era in politics. Will ever come back?
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Andis Sofianos @andissofianos.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Very happy to see our paper with @eugenioproto.bsky.social and Aldo replicated by Michalis (@mdrouvelis.bsky.social) & Graeme! #EconSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Intelligence and strategy choice in indefinitely repeated prisoner’s dilemma games: A replication of Proto, Rustichini & Sofianos (2022)
We provide a close replication of the original study of Proto et al. (2022) which examines the link between intelligence, strategy choice and errors i…
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
If you are tired of Trump and considering to come back to the old continent, this endowed Chair is a fantastic opportunity and Glasgow is a fantastic city. econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
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EJM - Econ Job Market
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Unhappiness & distrust fuel populism. Chapter 7 of the 2025 World Happiness Report shows low life satisfaction predicts support for populists—from Trump to Brexit. Less trust, more anger = votes for “strongmen.” 🔗 worldhappiness.report/ed/2025/trus... #Populism #Trust
worldhappiness.report
Trusting others: How unhappiness and social distrust explain populism
The World Happiness Report is published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, in partnership with Gallup, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and an independent ed...
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Join us for the 2nd Scottish Behavioural Sciences Conference 2025 @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgasbs.bsky.social in Scotland a cradle of behavioural science since the days of Adam Smith & David Hume gla.ac.uk/schools/busi...
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We welcome the submission of full papers or extended abstracts by Wednesday 30th April 2025. Papers received after this deadline will also be considered where feasible. Please submit your work for consideration to: behavioural-science-conf@glasgow.ac.uk
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Georgios Angelis @georgeangelis.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Come Join us! Send your papers: behavioural-science-conf@glasgow.ac.uk More info: tinyurl.com/yb5xn2yb @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgasbs.bsky.social @eugenioproto.bsky.social @basiczvonimir.bsky.social #FedericaFarolfi
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Join us for the 2nd Scottish Behavioural Sciences Conference 2025 @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgasbs.bsky.social in Scotland a cradle of behavioural science since the days of Adam Smith & David Hume gla.ac.uk/schools/busi...
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Trump declared war to science www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
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Science under siege: Trump cuts threaten to undermine decades of research
Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Chat GPT is a good debunker, I wonder if this can be used more systematically
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I asked CHGPT to invent a plausible conspiracy theory, then to debunk it. It is quite difficult to believe, but more of the "microchips in the vaccine theories?" In this thread the most important parts, I hope it helps... : (1/N)
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Eugenio Proto @eugenioproto.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
"Silvio Berlusconi invented the modern oligarchy. Musk is expanding it." www.persuasion.community/p/elon-musk-...
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Elon Musk and the Decline of Western Civilization
Silvio Berlusconi invented the modern oligarchy. Musk is expanding it.
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