Publications
Connolly, D.J., Chater, N., & Loewenstein, G. (2026). The political psychology of economic inequality. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 27(2), 76–126. https://doi.org/10.1177/15291006261431555
Connolly, D.J., Chater, N., & Loewenstein, G. (2025). An s-frame agenda for behavioral public policy research. Behavioural Public Policy, 9(3), 593–613. https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2024.58
Working Papers
Decomposing Ideological Divides in Inequality Perceptions: A Signal Detection Approach (with Hannah Waldfogel and Eldar Shafir)
Revise & resubmit, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. Available at SSRN, updated June 22, 2026
The Sorting Property of Changes in Event Memory (with George Loewenstein)
Under review. Available at SSRN, updated August 21, 2026
Policy Legibility and the Limits of Democratic Accountability: Evidence from Voter Beliefs (with Saurabh Bhargava)
Under review. Available at SSRN, updated August 2, 2026
Inaccurate Beliefs about Skill Decay (with Sami Horn & George Loewenstein)
Working paper. Available at SSRN, updated November 9, 2025
Work in Progress
Unequal Outcomes are Fair When the Rules Are Pre-Agreed (with Anuj Shah). Manuscript in preparation.
Private Giving and Public Rules: Evidence from 20 Years of Major US Philanthropy. Manuscript in preparation.
Public Choice Architecture: Power and the Behavioral Foundations of the Policymaking Process
Invited submission to edited volume Critical Perspectives on Behavioral Public Policy: Exploring Emerging Directions (Routledge). Manuscript in preparation.
Voluntariness in Consumer Transactions (with Ania Jaroszewicz). Work in progress.
Managerial Underuse of Delegation as Diagnosis and Development (with Aaron Balleisen). Work in progress.