Research
The (many) topics BEE people are interested in...
Research topics
A non-exaustive list of current interests (both general and applied) of BEE people:
Evolution of cooperation, punishment, and aggression
Evolution of conventions, norms, and institutions
Mechanisms of selection in the evolution of behaviors
The role of hierarchy and social status in economic behavior
Measurement of rationality and interactive rationality
Cognitive, biological and social determinants of prosocial and moral behavior
Effectiveness of game-based education and games for social change
Determinants of donors' behavior and related policies
Determinants of attitudes towards vaccination
Impact of social expectations in shaping individual behaviour
Tools to boost discrimination between false and true information
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Publications
(this is to give an idea of what BEE people do... for authorships check the papers!)
2024
Cooperation is unaffected by the threat of severe adverse events in public goods games Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Conflict Initiation function shapes the evolution of persistent outcomes in group conflict European Economic Review
A framework for promoting online prosocial behavior via digital interventions Communications Psychology
2023
Motivating Risky Choices Increases Risk Taking Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology and Economics
Delaying and Motivating Decisions in the (Bully) Dictator Game Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Ergonomics and nudging for health, safety and happiness (eds. T. Bellandi, S. Albolino, E. Bilancini) Springer
Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries (led by F. Azevedo e al.; a many lab research dataset) Scientific Data
Game-based education promotes sustainable water use Ecological Economics
The Importance of Informative Interventions in a Wicked Environment American Journal of Psychology
Assortativity in Cognition Scientific Reports
Multilevel Public Goods Game: Levelling up, Substitution and Crowding-in Effects Journal of Economic Psychology
Political ideology and generosity around the globe PNAS
2022
Prosocial behavior in emergencies: Evidence from blood donors recruitment and retention during the COVID-19 pandemic Social Science and Medicine
Memory retrieval and harshness of conflict in the hawk-dove game Economic Theory Bulletin
Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning (led by T. Pavlovic , F Azevedo et al. ; a many lab study) PNAS Nexus
Social value orientation and conditional cooperation in the online one-shot public goods game Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
The evolution of conventions in the presence of social competition Games and Economic Behavior
Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample (led by B. Bago et al.; a many lab study) Nature Human Behaviour
A New Dark Age? Truth, Trust, and Environmental Science Annual Review of Environment and Resources
Countering vaccine hesitancy through medical expert endorsement Vaccine
Letting third parties who suffer from petty corruption talk: Evidence from a collusive bribery experiment European Journal of Political Economy
Lateral reading and monetary incentives to spot disinformation about science Scientific Reports
National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic (led by Van Bavel et al.; a many lab study) Nature Communications
2021
Personal norms in the online public good game Economics Letters
How conformity can lead to polarised social behaviour PLoS Computational Biology
Pairwise interact-and-imitate dynamics Scientific Reports
When market unravelling fails and mandatory disclosure backfires: persuasion games with labelling and costly information acquisition Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
What noise matters? experimental evidence for stochastic deviations in social norms Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Competing conventions with costly information acquisition Games
Imitation and local interactions: long run equilibrium selection Games
2020
When today's rewards are tomorrow's endowments: the effects of inequality on social competition European Economic Review
Evolution and Rawlsian social choice in matching Games and Economic Behavior
The effect of norm-based messages on reading and understanding COVID-19 pandemic response governmental rules Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy
"Do the right thing for whom"? An experiment on ingroup favoritism, group assorting and moral suasion Judgment and Decision Making
The evolution of conventions under condition-dependent mistakes Economic Theory
2019
Intuition and deliberation in the stag hunt game [Supplementary Information] Scientific Reports
Assessing actual strategic behavior to construct a measure of strategic ability Frontiers in Psychology
2018
Signaling to analogical reasoners who can acquire costly information Games and Economic Behavior
Rational attitude change by reference cues when information elaboration requires effort Journal of Economic Psychology
The interplay of cultural intolerance and action-assortativity for the emergence of cooperation and homophily European Economi Review
Signaling with costly acquisition of signals Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Social coordination with locally observable types Economic Theory