Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

A large literature shares the view that social norms shape human cooperation, but without a
clean empirical identification of the relevant norms almost every behaviour can be …

We live and cooperate in networks. However, links in networks only allow for pairwise
interactions, thus making the framework suitable for dyadic games, but not for games that …

Interpersonal trust is an important source of social and economic development. Over
decades, researchers debated the question whether and how public institutions influence …

The decoy effect is a cognitive bias documented in behavioural economics by which the
presence of a third,(partly) inferior choice causes a significant shift in people's preference for …

I survey the literature post Ledyard (Handbook of Experimental Economics, ed. by J. Kagel,
A. Roth, Chap. 2, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1995) on three related issues in …

Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior
in the world's top journals based on samples drawn entirely from Western, Educated …

Advances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-
based research, laboratory and field experiments, and agent-based models. However …

This book explores the political implications of the human tendency to prioritize negative
information over positive information. Drawing on literatures in political science, psychology …

How effective are rewards (for cooperation) and punishment (for noncooperation) as tools to
promote cooperation in social dilemmas or situations when immediate self-interest and …