Luxury Beliefs are Status Symbols

The struggle for distinction

Luxury Beliefs are Status Symbols The struggle for distinction Rob Henderson Jun 12, 2022 713 24 70 Share Subscribe Give a gift subscription Share Here is the transcript of a talk I recently delivered at Nudgestock, the world’s biggest behavioral science festival. Let’s start with a question: What do top hats and “defund the police” have in common? Before we explore it, I’ll very briefly tell you about my unusual background . Currently, I’m a doctoral candidate in psychology at Cambridge and a faculty fellow at the University of Austin. And before this, I studied psychology at Yale as an under

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