• About
Search

Will Wilkinson

Menu
Skip to content
  • About

Category: Psychology

  • Institutions
  • Video

Live Chat – The Density Divide: Urbanization, Polarization & Populist Backlash

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on July 2, 2019July 8, 2019

I discuss my new paper on polarization and the rise of ethno-nationalist populism as overlooked side-effects of urbanization in this free-wheeling live chat.

Share this:

Read More
  • Lit

If You Love Truth So Much, Why Not Give Up Stories?

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on May 8, 2012

Robin Hanson wants to know: A few days ago I asked why not become religious,…

Share this:

Read More
  • Lit

Emulating Fictional Characters

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on May 8, 2012

Researchers at Ohio State University examined what happened to people who, while reading a fictional…

Share this:

Read More
  • Economics

The Trouble with Public Choice: Too Generous to Politicians

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on August 26, 2009

Matt Yglesias recently admitted in a blog post to increasing bafflement about “the high degree cynicism…

Share this:

Read More
  • Filthy Non-theoretical Politics

What's Wrong With Empathy?

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on May 13, 2009

I truly don’t get it. Empathy is “code” for judicial activism? “Judicial activism” is obviously…

Share this:

Read More
  • Psychology

The $250,000 Focal Point

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on March 5, 2009

Yes, people who think they’ll get walloped with extra taxes if they touch that 250…

Share this:

Read More
  • Economics

Krugman on the Bully Pulpit

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on February 7, 2009

Paul Zrimsek in the comments below offers us this gem:   Last but perhaps not…

Share this:

Read More
  • Economics

The Incoherence of Neo-Keynesian Doomsaying

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on February 6, 2009

In response to my post below, friend and former colleague Ryan Avent writes: This is…

Share this:

Read More
  • Economics

More Macropsychoeconomics

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on January 25, 2009

I certainly do not reject the idea that coordinated, population-wide changes in beliefs and/or preferences…

Share this:

Read More

Follow

Feed
Newsletter
Twitter
Facebook

Will Wilkinson

Will Wilkinson

Twitter

  • @rachelduttonart @DerechoEspana Thanks! 2 hours ago
  • @DoctorVive Thank you all around! 2 hours ago
  • @bonesteel49 Because they're not illiterate morons. 18 hours ago

Goodreads

×
%%footer%%