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Jeroen van Baar, PhD

@jeroenvanbaar.nl

Interdisciplinary science for a mentally healthy society. Writing a book about uncertainty. Blogging irregularly at: jeroenvanbaar.nl/latest-newsletter. Postdoc @ Columbia Mailman, but views are my own. "Share useful stories."

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Jeroen van Baar, PhD @jeroenvanbaar.nl · 07/01/2025

Voor de Nederlandse volgers: een hilarisch accurate beschrijving van het ondergaan van een MRI-scan 😁🧪

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Jeroen van Baar, PhD @jeroenvanbaar.nl · 19/01/2024

Does money make you happy? In a new post, I reviewed the adversarial collaboration between Daniel Kahneman and Matthew Killingsworth that attempted to answer this age-old question. Had a lot of fun writing this! jeroenvanbaar.substack.com/p/data-dispa...

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Jeroen van Baar, PhD @jeroenvanbaar.nl · 15/01/2024

❗ 27% of American adults are "most days so stressed they can't function" (representative APA survey from 2022). 🧠 But 100 years ago, legendary economist John Maynard Keynes predicted we would all live a life of leisure. 🤔 What happened? I wrote a post about it, link in bio

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Jeroen van Baar, PhD @jeroenvanbaar.nl · 22/12/2023

I wrote a Christmas-inspired newsletter this week, full of fascinating insights about the placebo effect. Read on: jeroenvanbaar.substack.com/p/the-perple... Happy holidays!

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Jeroen van Baar, PhD @jeroenvanbaar.nl · 09/12/2023

Trying to find median household income per month for Moldova, but lack the training... Using World Bank Poverty & Inequality Platform, I found survey median consumption at $10.6 per day (2017 PPP). Does this translate to 30*10.6 = $318 per month? 🤔 Help! #EconSky pip.worldbank.org/poverty-calc...

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Jeroen van Baar, PhD @jeroenvanbaar.nl · 08/12/2023

A surprising number of American parents are giving their children melatonin for sleeping. 😴 This fits in a larger trend of modern life: a counterproductive need for control, which leaves us less resilient to adversity and change. 🧠 Read more ==> jeroenvanbaar.substack.com/p/what-the-u...

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Jeroen van Baar, PhD @jeroenvanbaar.nl · 27/10/2023

This week I dove into the trends on loneliness in the US and what they mean for mental health. It's not pretty, and we're not solving the problem in a productive way. Let me know what you think at jeroenvanbaar.substack.com/p/data-dispa...

Thumbnail of new blog post: "sitting *alone* is the new smoking"

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Jeroen van Baar, PhD @jeroenvanbaar.nl · 13/10/2023

I asked DALL-E 2 to draw itself, and this is what it gave me. Creepy! (Prompt: "a photorealistic image of DALL-E")

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Jeroen van Baar, PhD @jeroenvanbaar.nl · 09/10/2023

Trying out proto-AI therapist ELIZA from the 1960s. It got pretty philosophical pretty quickly web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/el...

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Jeroen van Baar, PhD @jeroenvanbaar.nl · 01/10/2023

Very cool! In my view this is even more powerful when uncoupling the projection from its usual orientation, to really see the world through fresh eyes:

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