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Thomas Beuchot @thomasbeuchot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This has been an amazing collaborative effort! I’m proud to have been part of such a wide-ranging synthesis of human motivations, their evolutionary origins, and how they shape our preferences for fiction. Congratulations and thank you for leading this project!

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Edgar Dubourg @edgardubourg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Our paper 'Carving Stories at Their Natural Joints' is out in Psychological Review (@apajournals.bsky.social). It means a lot to me, especially because I got to collaborate with many researchers from different disciplines whose work I truly admire.

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Thomas Beuchot @thomasbeuchot.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

A real pleasure to have worked on this with you all! What I find exciting is how Openness can link individual psychology to cultural change: the same trait tied to science, art, hobbies, and values may help explain why safer, resource-rich environments foster new cultural practices and movements.

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Edgar Dubourg @edgardubourg.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

New in Trends in Cognitive Sciences ( @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social)👇 Why do people who love abstract art or imaginary worlds 🎨 also tend to get vaccinated 💉, support redistribution 💸, endorse animal rights 🐥, and try novel foods 🫐?

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Thomas Beuchot @thomasbeuchot.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Experimental history (Adam Mastroianni), The Splintered Mind (Eric Schwitzgebel), Speak Now Regret Later (Michael Inzlicht), The Update (Stefan Schubert). Regarding generalist newsletters, I also like Musing Mind.

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Thomas Beuchot @thomasbeuchot.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

👉 Design behavioural policies with motivations from the target group in mind. If poverty affects preferences, ignoring heterogeneity risks weak effects, and sometimes unfair ones.

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Thomas Beuchot @thomasbeuchot.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

• Overall, social norms are more potent for those deviating most from the norm. • Private social norms should be more potent for high-SES people, consistent with higher social trust. • Public social norms should be more potent for low-SES people, consistent with higher social vigilance.

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Thomas Beuchot @thomasbeuchot.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

• Information campaigns are more potent for high-SES people, consistent with higher personal agency. • Belonging intervention are more potent for low-SES people, consistent with higher social vigilance.

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Thomas Beuchot @thomasbeuchot.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

• Defaults are more potent for low-SES people, consistent with higher conformism. • Self-regulation tools are more potent for low-SES people, consistent with higher present-focus.

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Thomas Beuchot @thomasbeuchot.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Next, we ask: do behavioural interventions actually show different effects by socio-economic status (SES)? We review evidence across several policy toolkits, looking for patterns that match those psychological shifts.

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Thomas Beuchot @thomasbeuchot.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Four shifts show up repeatedly: 1. Conformism ↑ (less exploration) 2. Present-focus ↑ (steeper discounting) 3. Personal agency ↓ (lower perceived control) 4. Social vigilance ↑ (more cautious trust)

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Thomas Beuchot @thomasbeuchot.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

We start from a simple framework: Resource availability → psychological traits → intervention response. The psychology of poverty literature suggests psychological shifts under scarcity.

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Thomas Beuchot @thomasbeuchot.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Behavioural policies often rely on simple, scalable tweaks (defaults, reminders, social norms…). But many are designed as if people face the same constraints. Key question: how does poverty reshape cognition and change which interventions help?

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Thomas Beuchot @thomasbeuchot.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

🎉 Our paper is out in Communications Psychology: a perspective on behavioural public policies & the psychology of poverty. Core idea: poverty can shift psychology, so the same intervention won’t work the same for everyone. Thread 🧵

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Thomas Beuchot @thomasbeuchot.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I just had an amazing week at @ehbea2025.bsky.social where I was able to present the results of my upcoming meta-analysis on human personality traits and resource availability! #ehbea2025 #ehbea

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