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Professor Daniel Nettle is affiliated with Northumbria University’s Department of Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing and collaborates with the Evolution and Social Cognition team at the Institut Jean Nicod in Paris. His research focuses on economic and social inequality, trust and cooperation, adversity and aging, food insecurity, and moral/political cognition, bridging biological and social sciences. He advocates interdisciplinary approaches and open science practices.
His work explores how socioeconomic factors influence health, behavior, and policy, with recent studies addressing food insecurity’s mental health impacts, income volatility’s health consequences, and basic income pilot designs. He critiques traditional utility models of human behavior, emphasizing evolved mechanisms over rational choice.
Nettle’s research spans human and animal studies, including work on starlings’ behavioral responses to adversity. He maintains an active blog and has authored books on topics like human behavior and evolutionary psychology. His findings suggest that addressing deprivation through policies like basic income could improve health equity, aligning with his advocacy for evidence-based public interventions.
