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Daniel J. Connolly

Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ 08544-1021

United States

  • Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

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1.

Inaccurate Beliefs about Skill Decay

Number of pages: 103 Posted: 26 Aug 2024 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2025
Daniel J. Connolly, Samantha Horn and George Loewenstein
Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, University of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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learning, beliefs, skill decay

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The Political Psychology of Economic Inequality

Number of pages: 101 Posted: 03 Nov 2025 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2026
Daniel J. Connolly, Nick Chater and George Loewenstein
Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, University of Warwick - Warwick Business School and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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political psychology, inequality, attention, group identity, social cognition, power

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An S-Frame Agenda for Behavioral Public Policy Research

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Mar 2024 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2024
Daniel J. Connolly, George Loewenstein and Nick Chater
Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and University of Warwick - Warwick Business School
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Behavioral public policy, behavioral economics, randomized controlled trials

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How Memory Crystallizes the Past: Memories Become More Consistent Over Time Due to Differential, Nonconstant Change

Number of pages: 83 Posted: 07 Jan 2026
Daniel J. Connolly and George Loewenstein
Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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memory, temporal discounting, power functions

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Decomposing the Ideological Divide in Perceptions of Inequality: A Signal Detection Approach

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 15 Jun 2026 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2026
Hannah Waldfogel, Daniel J. Connolly and Eldar Shafir
Columbia University, Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Princeton University
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Inequality, Ideology, Perceptual Sensitivity, Signal Detection, Decision Threshold

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Policy Legibility and the Limits of Democratic Accountability: Evidence from Voter Beliefs

Number of pages: 83
Saurabh Bhargava and Daniel J. Connolly
New York University (NYU) and Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
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JEL Codes. D72, D83, D91, Voter beliefs, Political Polarization, Voter Misperception, Electoral Accountability, Political Misinformation