My article with @heingoemans.bsky.social and @miweintraub83.bsky.social is now out at @thejop.bsky.social! See how prospect theory applies (and doesn’t) to territorial disputes:

I had been wondering how Trump can justify Venezuela to his isolationist "America First" base. A quick dip in the data suggests, however, that he won't have to. A tale in three plots, drawing on survey data I collected with Georgia Tech's Lincoln Hines in 2024: (1/5)

A small ray of light: my paper with @heingoemans.bsky.social and @miweintraub83.bsky.social, “Loss Framing in Territorial Disputes,” is “just accepted” at @thejop.bsky.social! See what prospect theory can (and can’t) explain about territorial disputes: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...