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Irina Soboleva

Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

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A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19

Journal article Nature · January 4, 2024 Featured Publication AbstractScientific evidence regularly guides policy decisions1, with behavioural science increasingly part of this process2. In April 2020, an influential paper3 Full text Cite

The globalizability of temporal discounting

Journal article Nature Human Behaviour · July 11, 2022 Featured Publication AbstractEconomic inequality is associated with preferences for smaller, immediate gains over larger, delayed ones. Such temporal discounting may feed into rising global inequality, yet it is unclear whether it is a function ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Efficacy, Openness, Ingenuousness: Micro-Foundations of Democratic Engagement

Thesis / Dissertation · May 20, 2020 Featured Publication What drives civic engagement in weak democracies? What are the psychological processes responsible for overcoming post-authoritarian learned helplessness? This dissertation argues that in non-Western political contexts, traditional psychological predictors ... Open Access Link to item Cite