Achieving the global 30by30 #biodiversity conservation targets requires political compromises & navigating conflicts. @michaelsen.bsky.social et al. found strong public support for the targets in 8 countries, which suggests expansion of protected areas is politically feasible doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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@naturebasedsols.bsky.social
@sierraclub.org

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@thegef.bsky.social
@society4conbio.bsky.social
@scbeurope.bsky.social
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A second experiment on domestic-level policy regimes shows similar, but somewhat more diverse, results across countries.

Results include a widespread preferences of protected areas that prioritize nature values (even over social or economic), and general dislike of funding PAs through general taxes

Experimentally, we find highly consistent policy preferences for international-level expansion regimes.

Results include widespread preferences for rich countries bearing higher costs, and generally that each country should protect 30% (instead of e.g., according to conservation benefits)

We find 30x30 support levels in the range of 80-90% for Argentina, Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Africa and Spain samples.

Swedish (66% in favor) and USA (71%) respondents show strong majority support, albeit at comparatively lower levels.

New: Strong global support for the 30x30 conservation target

*Data from 5 continents (N=12k) show 82% in support of 30x30

*2 experiments find highly consistent expansion policy preferences, incl. prioritization of nature and rich countries bearing higher costs

Out now OA in @pnas.org. Viz. below.

My own branch has replicated several times

^this is true

Hey! If social psychology could read they’d be very upset

🚨New paper!🚨

Meta-analysis on 4M p-values across 240k psych articles: How has psychology changed since the replication crisis began? How is replicability linked to citations, impact factor, and university prestige? 🧵

Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Interactive: pbogdan.com/meganal

Haven't read this yet, but this seems very important for #ExpEcon folks. 22–27% failed comprehension in the DG & UG; in the Trust Game and Public Goods Game, that number hit 70% and 52%. doi.org/10.1016/j.je... (Note saw posted on other site but author doesn't seem to be here, so making a new post)

🚨 New paper out in @pnas.org 🚨
Together with Armin Granulo and Christoph Fuchs, we explore how people respond to system-level policies—like bans or mandates— 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 vs. 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 they are implemented.
Paper 🔗 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Preprint 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...
Open materials 🔗 osf.io/6qajn/

A new blog post by Lauren Yehle, @michaelsen.bsky.social, Niklas Harring, and Sverker C. Jagers - t.ly/cw_CR !
The article “Conservation for nature and wildlife’s sake: the effects of (non-)anthropocentric ethical justifications on policy acceptability” is available here: t.ly/HWHfQ

I knew publication bias in political science was bad; I didn't know it was this bad.

"98.8% of abstracts report non-null results compared to only 16.9% reporting null findings."

This is bad.

A new interesting article by Lauren Yehle, @michaelsen.bsky.social, Niklas Harring, and Sverker C. Jagers is now available. It is entitled “Conservation for nature and wildlife’s sake: the effects of (non-)anthropocentric ethical justifications on policy acceptability”.
Enjoy it here: t.ly/HWHfQ

the fallout from the Francesca Gino research misconduct scandal isn't over. @engber.bsky.social writes about how an effort by some of her colleagues to self-audit their work with her ended up raising even more questions — for them personally and their whole field www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Abstracts deadline for the 4th annual International Behavioural Public Policy Conference is January 31st, 2025. Next year's conference will be in the UK, 10-12 September

Full details on abstract submission: www.ibppa.org/conference-s...

Thanks for organizing, would love to be added!