Professor Daniel Nettle

I am Professor in Community Wellbeing in the Department of Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing and a researcher in the Evolution and Social Cognition team at the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris. 

I study a number of different topics relating to behaviour, cognition, society and health. My current research projects are in one or more of the following areas:

• Economic and social inequality
• Trust, cooperation and antisocial behaviour
• Adversity and aging
• Hunger and food insecurity
• Moral and political cognition

My work spans the biological and social sciences. I am also interested more broadly in explanations in the behavioural sciences; in interdisciplinary synthesis; and in open science. Recently I have begun to explore how my work might apply to and support public policy.

In addition to my PURE record, you can download all of my research papers in some form via my website, even if it is not the publisher’s formatted version. You can also find information on the various books I have written and access an introductory R and statistics course I wrote.

I also write a blog on science, and society. 

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• Anxiety, insecurity and redistribution in the UK ‘red wall’: have policy preferences changed since the COVID-19 pandemic?, Stark, G., Johnson, E., Ahmed, Z., Kamalakannan, S., Reed, H., Flinders, M., Nettle, D., Johnson, M., Degerman, D. 1 May 2025, In: International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society
• Associations amongst poverty, loneliness, and a defensive symptom cluster characterised by pain, fatigue, and low mood, Davis, A., Cohen, E., Nettle, D. 1 May 2025, In: Public Health
• Basic Income for Greater Manchester: Plans for a feasible, affordable and popular pilot, Hawdale, A., Strappazzon, L., Douglas, J., Johnson, E., Duffy, S., Mermelstein, D., Stark, G., Reed, H., Nettle, D., Johnson, M. 10 Feb 2025
• Count the Costs: A Common Sense Update for the 2025 Spring Statement, Reed, H., Thew, A., Stark, G., Nettle, D., Johnson, M., Johnson, E. 27 Mar 2025
• Does food insecurity cause anxiety and depression? Evidence from the Changing Cost of Living Study, Bateson, M., Chevallier, C., Johnson, E., Johnson, M., Pickett, K., Nettle, D. 14 Feb 2025
• Examining the relationship between income and both mental and physical health among adults in the UK: Analysis of 12 waves (2009-2022) of Understanding Society, Reed, H., Nettle, D., Parra Mujica, F., Stark, G., Wilkinson, R., Johnson, M., Johnson, E. 6 Mar 2025, In: PLoS One
• Harmless bodily pleasures are moralized because they are perceived as reducing self-control and cooperativeness, Fitouchi, L., Nettle, D. 2 May 2025, In: Cognition
• Make Politics Work for Us: A Common Sense pathway to democracy that delivers, Johnson, E., Neal, C., Stark, G., Duffy, S., Robson, I., Reed, H., Meehan, P., Warnock, C., Atkinson, J., Nettle, D., Johnson, M. 16 Jan 2025
• Poverty is associated with both risk avoidance and risk taking: empirical evidence for the desperation threshold model from the UK and France, de Courson, B., Frankenhuis, W., Nettle, D. 5 Feb 2025, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• Short-term changes in financial situation have immediate mental health consequences: Implications for social policy, Nettle, D., Chevallier, C., de Courson, B., Johnson, E., Johnson, M., Pickett, K. 1 Mar 2025, In: Social Policy & Administration

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• Oral presentation: Act Now Book Launch 2024
• Invited talk: Modelling Public Acceptability of Tax and Benefit Changes 2024
• Invited talk: Universal Basic Income and public health crises: RSA North Report launch 2022

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