Books
Selected Working Projects
We are vulnerable to disasters, yet citizens hesitate to spend on disaster prevention. Is this because the problem is too complex? Or are citizens concerned political elites will behave poorly? Using an experimental economic game that simulates disaster, we tested if people can understand when an institution incentivizes elites to exaggerate the cost of disaster prevention. Citizen players could contribute money to prevent disaster. Leader players knew the cost of prevention and reported it to citizens, with the option to exaggerate. We manipulated whether the institution allowed leaders to personally benefit if citizens contributed too much. Citizens were sensitive to this, trusting the leader less and contributing less when leaders could benefit from exaggeration. Thus, players could discriminate between institutions that did and did not create incentives for inefficiency. This helps clarify why voters might oppose spending on disaster prevention and sheds light on the nature of voter rationality.
The Politics of Pooling Risk: Compassion, Self-Interest, and Healthcare
With Daniella P. Alva & Andrew W. Delton
Revise & Resubmit
How inaccurate beliefs undermine support for solutions after disaster
Under Review
Trend Dominance
With Markus Prior
Under Review
The Winds of Change? Attitudes Toward Wind Projects and Their Electoral Implications in Texas
With Oksan Bayulgen, Lyle Scruggs, Carol Atkinson-Palombo, & Adam Gallaher
Under Review
Meaning beyond numbers: Introducing the plot staircase to measure graphical preferences
With Markus Prior & Justin Curl
Under Review
Paying Attention & Paying the Cost: Wildfires in the American West
With Alicia Cooperman, Sara Constantino, & Alexander Gard-Murray
Efficacy Under Climate Change: A Systematic Review
With Payel Sen & Temis Taylor
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Talbot M. Andrews & Scott Bokemper
Journal of Politics, Forthcoming
Who punishes? A note on responses to cooperation and defection across cultures
Talbot M. Andrews
Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2024
People are Less Myopic about Future than Past Collective Outcomes
Markus Prior, Abdelaziz Alsharawy, & Talbot M. Andrews
PNAS, 2024
News from home: How local media shapes climate change attitudes
Talbot M. Andrews, Cana Kim, & Jeong Hyun Kim
Public Opinion Quarterly, 2023
Risk from response to a changing climate
Talbot M. Andrews, Nicholas P. Simpson, Katharine Mach, & Christopher Trisos
Climate Risk Management, 2023
Adaptation to compound climate risks: A systematic global stocktake
Nicholas P. Simpson, Portia Adade Williams, Katharine J.Mach, Lea Berrang-Ford, Robbert Biesbroek, Marjolijn Haasnoot, Alcade C. Segnon, Donovan Campbell, Justice Issah Musah-Surugu, Elphin Tom Joe, Abraham Marshall Nunbogu, Salma Sabour, Andreas L. S. Meyer, Talbot M. Andrews, Chandni Singh, A. R. Siders, Judy Lawrence, Maartenvan Aalst, Christopher H. Trisos, The Global Adaptation Mapping Initiative Team
iScience, 2023
Who do you trust? Institutions that constrain leaders help people prevent disaster
Talbot M. Andrews, Andrew W. Delton, & Reuben Kline
Journal of Politics, 2022
Too many ways to help: How to promote climate change mitigation behaviors
Talbot M. Andrews, Reuben Kline, Yanna Krupnikov, & John Barry Ryan
Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2022
Anticipating moral Hazard undermines climate mitigation in an experimental geoengineering game
Talbot M. Andrews, Andrew W. Delton, & Reuben Kline
Ecological Economics, 2022
Climate Change Literacy in Africa
Nicholas Philip Simpson, Talbot M. Andrews, Matthias Kronke, Christopher Lennard, Romaric C. Odoulami, Birgitt Ouweneel, Anna Steynor, & Christopher H. Trisos
Nature Climate Change, 2021
Preferences for Prevention: People Assume Expensive Problems Have Expensive Solutions
Talbot M. Andrews & John Barry Ryan
Risk Analysis, 2021
Talbot M. Andrews, Andrew W. Delton, & Reuben Kline
Political Behavior, 2021
From Moral Hazard to Risk-Response Feedback
Joseph Jebari, Olufemi Taiwo, Talbot M. Andrews, Valentina Aquila, Brian Beckage, Mariia Belaia, Maggie Clifford, Jay Fuhrman, David P. Keller, Katharine J. Mach, David R. Morrow, Kaitlin T. Raimi, Daniele Visioni, Simon Nicholson, & Christopher H. Trisos
Climate Risk Management, 2021
Who feels the impacts of climate change?
Talbot M. Andrews & Oleg Smirnov
Global Environmental Change, 2020
Rebel recruitment in civil conflict
Katherine Sawyer & Talbot M. Andrews
International Interactions, 2020
When trust matters: The case of gun control
John Barry Ryan, Talbot M. Andrews, Tracy Goodwin, & Yanna Krupnikov
Political Behavior, 2020
High risk-high reward investments to mitigate climate change
Talbot M. Andrews, Andrew W. Delton, & Reuben Kline
Nature Climate Change, 2018
Cue-based estimates of reproductive value explain women’s body attractiveness
Talbot M. Andrews, Aaron W. Lukaszewski, Zachary L. Simmons, & April Bleske-Recheck
Evolution and Human Behavior, 2016
Other published work
Africa’s first continent wide survey of climate change literacy finds education is key
Nicholas P. Simpson, Christopher Trisos, Matthias Krönke, & Talbot M. Andrews
The Conversation, 2021
Climate change literacy in Africa
Nicholas P. Simpson, Christopher Trisos, Matthias Krönke, & Talbot M. Andrews
Blog post on Nature Sustainability Community, 2021
Two-wave panel survey dataset on who feels affected by Hurricane Florence
Talbot M. Andrews & Oleg Smirnov
Data in Brief, 2020
The political complexity of attack and defense
Talbot M. Andrews, Leonie Huddy, Reuben Kline, H. Hannah Nam, and Katherine Sawyer
Commentary in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2019
Talbot M. Andrews
Article in The Experimental Political Scientist: Newsletter of the APSA Experimental Research Section, 2019
Graduate women's writing groups
Talbot M. Andrews
Blog post on Behavioral and Social Sciences at Nature Research, 2019
The connection between foraging birds and fighting climate change
Talbot M. Andrews, Andrew W. Delton, & Reuben Kline
Blog post on Behavioral and Social Sciences at Nature Research, 2018
Beyond market behavior: Evolved cognition and folk political economic beliefs
Talbot M. Andrews & Andrew W. Delton
Commentary in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2018