Conditional cooperation: Review and refinement

C Thöni, S Volk - Economics Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Fischbacher et al.(2001), henceforth FGF, introduced an experimental design to
measure conditional cooperation in public goods games. We collected data from 17 …

[HTML][HTML] Prosociality predicts health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic

P Campos-Mercade, AN Meier, FH Schneider… - Journal of public …, 2021 - Elsevier
Socially responsible behavior is crucial for slowing the spread of infectious diseases.
However, economic and epidemiological models of disease transmission abstract from …

[HTML][HTML] Leaders as role models and 'belief managers' in social dilemmas

S Gächter, E Renner - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018 - Elsevier
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior in social
dilemmas. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in …

Have behavioral sciences delivered on their promise to influence environmental policy and conservation practice?

MA Velez, L Moros - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Behavioral science provides insights into environmental decision-
making.•Recent studies focus on providing feedback, manipulating framing, using green …

Hate trumps love: The impact of political polarization on social preferences

E Dimant - Management Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Exhibiting altruism toward and cooperativeness with others is a key ingredient for successful
work relationships and managerial decision making. Rising political polarization creates a …

Water governance contribution to water and sanitation access equality in developing countries

T Bayu, H Kim, T Oki - Water Resources Research, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Access to basic water service and basic sanitation service has been acknowledged as
fundamental human rights. It also has been mentioned in UN Sustainable Development …

Beyond average: A method for measuring the tightness, looseness, and polarization of social norms

E Dimant - Economics Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Social norms are ubiquitous and understanding what shape they take is a central element of
successful behavior change interventions. Existing methods focus on measuring norms in …

Payoff-based learning best explains the rate of decline in cooperation across 237 public-goods games

MN Burton-Chellew, SA West - Nature human behaviour, 2021 - nature.com
What motivates human behaviour in social dilemmas? The results of public goods games
are commonly interpreted as showing that humans are altruistically motivated to benefit …

People prefer coordinated punishment in cooperative interactions

L Molleman, F Kölle, C Starmer, S Gächter - Nature Human Behaviour, 2019 - nature.com
Human groups can often maintain high levels of cooperation despite the threat of
exploitation by individuals who reap the benefits of cooperation without contributing to its …

Observability, social proximity, and the erosion of norm compliance

C Bicchieri, E Dimant, S Gächter - 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
We study how an individual's compliance with social norms is influenced by other actors'
norm compliance. In a repeated non-strategic Take-or-Give donation experiment we show …