Research by topic
on the COVID-19 crisis
What leads to vaccine compliance? Evidence from healthcare workers in Italy (with Demichelis A., Marini M., Menicagli D., Mancini G., Bilancini E., Panizza F., Bellandi T., Boncinelli L., Galletti G., Caldesi R., Cevolani G.) update: 2024
I want to be safe: Understanding the main drivers behind vaccination choice throughout the pandemic (M. Marini, A. Demichelis, D. Menicagli, G. Mancini, F. Panizza, G. Cevolani) BMC public health 2024
National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic (led by Van Bavel et al.; a many lab study) nature communications 2022
GLOBAL PROJECT An International Collaboration on the Social & Moral Psychology of COVID-19
The effect of norm-based messages on reading and understanding COVID-19 pandemic response governmental rules (with L. Boncinelli, V. Capraro, T. Celadin and R. Di Paolo) journal of behavioral economics for policy 2020
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 2022
Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries (led by F. Azevedo e al.; a many lab research dataset) scientific data 2023
on the use and consequences of AI
AI-powerd chatbots: AI-powered Chatbots: Effective Communication Styles for Sustainable Development Goals (with L. Boncinelli, E. Vicario) update: 2024
The impact of generative artificial intelligence on socioeconomic inequalities and policy making (with V. Capraro et al.) PNAS nexus 2024
on prosocial behavior in the field
Symbolic incentives can affect the frequency of blood and plasma donations: evidence from 12 years of donors' behavior and donation awards (with L. Boncinelli, R. Di Paolo, D. Menicagli, E. Ricciardi, F. Serti) update: 2021
Prosocial behavior in emergencies: evidence from blood donors recruitment and retention during the COVID-19 pandemic (with L. Boncinelli, R. Di Paolo, D. Menicagli, V. Pizziol, E. Ricciardi, F. Serti) social science and medicine 2022
on behaviors, prosociality and cognition
Manipulating cognition in the one-shot stag-hunt game played online (with L. Boncinelli, R. Di Paolo) update: 2021
The effect of time pressure and motivated delay on cooperation and social norms in the online one-shot public goods game (with L. Boncinelli, V. Capraro and T. Celadin) update: 2020
Prolonged impulse control prompts sleep-like brain activity and aggressivity (with E. Ordali, P. Marcos-Prieto, G. Avvenuti, E. Ricciardi, L. Boncinelli, P. Pietrini, G. Bernardi) [supplementary material] [extra data] R&R PNAS
Manipulating response times in the cognitive reflection test [supplementary information] (with L. Boncinelli, T. Celadin) forthcoming journal of behavioral and experimental economics
Who's the deceiver? identifying deceptive intentions in communications (with J.F. Blazquiz-Pulido, L. Polonio) [supplementary information] games and economic behavior 2024
Cooperation is unaffected by the threat of severe adverse events in large public goods games (with L. Boncinelli, C. Nardi, V. Pizziol) journal of behavioral and experimental economics 2024
Motivating risky choices increases risk taking (with L. Boncinelli and L. Spadoni) [Supplementary Information] journal of neuroscience, psychology and economics 2023
Delaying and motivating decisions in the (bully) dictator game (with L. Boncinelli, P. Guarnieri, L. Spadoni) journal of behavioral and experimental economics 2023
Social value orientation and conditional cooperation in the online one-shot public goods game (with L. Boncinelli and T. Celadin) journal of economic behavior & organization 2022
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 behavior 2022
When market unravelling fails and mandatory disclosure backfires: persuasion games with labelling and costly information acquisition (with L. Boncinelli) journal of economics & management strategy 2021
Does focality depend on the mode of cognition? experimental evidence on pure coordination games (with L. Boncinelli and L. Luini) under revision
"Do the right thing for whom"? An experiment n ingroup favoritism, group assorting and moral suasion (with L. Boncinelli, C. Capraro, T. Celadin and R. Di Paolo) judgment and decision making 2020
Intuition and deliberation in the stag hunt game (with M. Belloc, L. Boncinelli and S. D'Alessandro) scientific reports 2019 [Supplementary Information] [old and longer wp]
Signaling to analogical reasoners who can acquire costly information (with L. Boncinelli) games and economic behavior 2018 [WP]
Rational attitude change by reference cues when information elaboration requires effort (with L. Boncinelli) journal of economic psychology 2018 [WP]
Signaling with costly acquisition of signals (with L. Boncinelli) journal of economic behavior & organization 2018 [WP]
on the evolution of behaviors, norms and conventions
Does homophily impede human capital investments? (with L. Boncinelli, R. Rozzi) R&R journal of economic theory
Memory retrieval in the demand game with a few possible splits: unfair conventions emerge in fair settings (with L. Boncinelli, E. Vicario) journal of economics dynamics & control 2024
Coevolution of cognition and cooperation in structured populations under reinforcement learning (with L. Boncinelli, R. Mastrandrea) chaos, solitons & fractals 2024
Evolution of conventions in uncertain environments (with J.F. Blazquiz-Pulido, L. Boncinelli) update: 2022
Strategy assortativity and the evolution of parochialism (with L. Boncinelli, A. Tampieri) R&R journal of economic behavior & organization
The structure of interaction and modes of reasoning can shape the evolution of conventions (with L. Boncinelli, S. Zucchiatti) R&R international journal of game theory
Conflict Initiation function shapes the evolution of persistent outcomes in group conflict (with L. Boncinelli, P. Marcos-Prieto) european economic review 2024
Assortativity in cognition (with L. Boncinelli, E. Vicario) scientific reports 2023
Memory retrieval and harshness of conflict in the hawk-dove game (with L. Boncinelli, S. Ille, E. Vicario) economic theory bulletin 2022
The evolution of conventions in the presence of social competition (with L. Boncinelli) games and economic behavior 2022
Pairwise interact-and-imitate dynamics (with L. Boncinelli and N. Campigotto) scientific reports 2021
What noise matters? experimental evidence for stochastic deviations in social norms (with L. Boncinelli and H. Nax) journal of behavioral and experimental economics 2021 [WP]
Evolution and rawlsian social choice in matching (with L. Boncinelli and J. Newton) games and economic behavior 2020 [WP]
The evolution of conventions under condition-dependent mistakes (with L. Boncinelli) economic theory 2020 [WP]
The interplay of cultural intolerance and action-assortativity for the emergence of cooperation and homophily (with L. Boncinelli and J. Wu) european economic review 2018 [WP]
Social coordination with locally observable types (with L. Boncinelli) economic theory 2018 [WP]
The co-evolution of cooperation and defection under local interaction and endogenous network formation (with L. Boncinelli) journal of economic behavior & organization 2009
on social status, positional goods and inequality
When today's rewards are tomorrow's endowments: the effects of inequality on social competition (with L. Boncinelli) european economic review 2020 [WP]
Wage inequality, labor income taxes, and the notion of social status (with L. Boncinelli) economics e-journal, 2019, [Special issue on "The Economics of Social Status"]
Instrumental cardinal concerns for social status in two-sided matching with non-transferable utility (with L. Boncinelli) european economic review 2014 [WP]
Redistribution and the notion of social status (with L. Boncinelli) journal of public economics 2012
The desirability of pay-as-you-go when relative consumption matters and returns are stochastic (with M. D'Antoni) economics letters 2012 [longer WP]
Ordinal vs cardinal status: two examples (with L. Boncinelli) economics letters 2008
on the determinants of well-being
Ergonomics and nudging for health, safety and happiness eds. T. Bellandi, S. Albolino, E. Bilancini, Springer, 2023
Ergonomics and nudging (with T. Bellandi and S. Albolino) Ch.1 in ergonomics and nudging for health, safety and happiness eds. T. Bellandi, S. Albolino, E. Bilancini, Springer, 2023
Policies for happiness eds S. Bartolini, E. Bilancini, L. Bruni, P. Porta, Oxford University Press, 2016
Social capital predicts happiness: world-wide evidence from time series (with S. Bartolini and F. Sarracino) Ch.8 in policies for happiness eds S. Bartolini, E. Bilancini, L. Bruni, P. Porta, Oxford University Press, 2016
Social participation and hours worked (with S. Bartolini) under revision
Is unpaid work conducive of well-being? the case of within household unpaid work in the modena district (with T. Addabbo) international journal of happiness and development 2015
Predicting the trend of well-being in germany:how much do comparisons, adaptation and sociability matter? (with S. Bartolini and F. Sarracino) social indicators research 2013
Long run welfare under externalities in consumption, leisure, and production: a case for happy de-growth vs. unhappy growth (with S. D'Alessandro) ecological economics 2012
Did the decline in social connections depress american happiness? (with S. Bartolini and M. Pugno) social indicators research 2013
If not GDP, what else? using relational goods to predict the trends of subjective well-being (with S. Bartolini) international review of economics 2010
Rivelazione delle preferenze, determinanti sociali dell'utilità e rilevanza dei dati soggettivi studi e note di economia 2007
on game science
Game-based education promotes sustainable water use (with L. Boncinelli and R. Di Paolo) [supplementary information] ecological economics 2023
The Language of Life: A Game-Based Workshop for Introducing Protein Biosynthesis (with F. Chiarello, D. Fioretti, T. Antognozzi, F. Romana Bertani, M. Bisanti, L. Boncinelli, L. Businaro, R. Di Paolo, A. Gerardino, S. Iurescia) proceedings of the European Conference on Games Based Learning 17 (1) 2023
Digital Escape Games in Educational Programs for Financial Literacy (with M. Bisanti, R. Di Paolo, V. Pizziol, S. Accardi, F. Maggi, G. Paladino, E. Ricciardi) proceedings of the European Conference on Games Based Learning 16 (1) 2022
New frontiers in gaming (Edited by Matteo Bisanti) 2022
Assessing actual strategic behavior to construct a measure of strategic ability (with L. Boncinelli and A. Mattiassi) frontiers in psychology 2019
Game theory in game design, eds M.Bertolo and I.Mariani, capitolo 7, 2014
on the of agricultural institution in industrial takeoff
Agricultural institutions, industrialization and growth: the case of new zealand and uruguay in 1870-1940 (with J. Alvarez, S. D’Alessandro and G. Porcile), 2011 explorations in economic history
Distribution of agricultural surplus and industrial takeoff (with S. D’Alessandro) in geography, structural change, and economic development: theory and empirics, eds P.Commendatore, N. Salvadori and M. Tamberi, Edgar Elgar, 2009 [Book TOC]
Functional distribution, land ownership and industrial takeoff: the role of effective demand (with S. D’Alessandro) b.e. journal of economic analysis & policy (contributions) 2008
topics in economic theory
Disclosure of information in matching markets with non-transferable utility (with L. Boncinelli) games and economic behavior 2013 [WP] [a characterization of matching equilibria when individual characteristics are unobservable unless volutarily disclosed]
Dynamic adverse selection and the supply size (with L. Boncinelli) european economic review 2016 [WP] [old WP - strategic version] [can we mitigate adverse selection problems by letting market participants know the number of goods still on the market?]
Strict nash equilibria in non-atomic games with strict single crossing in players (or types) and actions (with L. Boncinelli) economic theory bulletin 2016 [WP] [an all-Nash-are-strict result for games with uncountably infinite strategy spaces]
On the rationalizability of observed consumers' choices when preferences depend on budget sets and (potentially) on anything else journal of economics 2011 [consumers' preferences need not be restricted to consumption bundles to have testable predictions (while must be independent of prices)]
Single-valuedness of the demand correspondence and strict convexity of preferences: an equivalence result (with L. Boncinelli) economics letters 2010 [if preferences are rational, continuous, and strictly monotone, then single-valuedness of the demand correspondence implies strict convexity of preferences]
Preferences and normal goods: an-easy-to-check necessary and sufficient condition (with L. Boncinelli) economics letters 2010 [a simple condition on the derivatives of the utility function to check goods normality]
A comment on gintis's "the dynamics of general equilibrium" [Gintis' paper, EJ2007] (with F. Petri) economics bullettin 2008 [addendum] [some comments on the weaknesses of GE theory magnified by Gintis' paper]
Imprimitivity in decomposable economies economics bullettin 2008 [an economic interpretation of matrix decomposability in Leontief-Sraffa-VonNeumann economies]
Small noise in signaling selects pooling on minimum signal (with L. Boncinelli) under revision