José Duarte, PhD

Tag: Judith Curry

  • Envy, social comparison, non-envy

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    My empirical work focuses on envy, particularly it’s benign and malicious forms. I was inspired by van de Ven, Zeelenberg, and Pieters (2009). The Dutch language has separate words for benign and malicious envy, which helped frame their research. Malicious envy: hostility toward the target, appraisal that the disparity is unfair, low confidence in one’s…

  • Lewis and Curry

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    This is interesting. Lewis and Curry estimate equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) at 1.64°C. That’s remarkably low. If it turns out to be true – and it seems like we won’t know the true value for ECS for another decade or longer – then AGW would have been largely overstated. The estimates constantly change, which is…