Research fields
Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Information, Attention, Applied Microeconomics
Selected Publications
"Improving Human Deception Detection Using Algorithmic Feedback" with Uri Gneezy. CESifo Working Paper No. 10518. Accepted, at Management Science.
“REFORMS: Reporting Standards for Machine Learning Based Science” with Kapoor, S., Pham, H., Bail, C., Cantrell, E., Gundersen, O.E., Hofman, J., Hullman, J., Lones, M., Malik, M.M., Nanayakkara, P., Peng, K., Poldrack, R., Raji, I.D., Roberts, M., Salganik, M., Steward, B., Vandewiele, G., and A. Narayanan. Science Advances. [Paper]
"Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment," with Silvia Saccardo. [Paper] American Economic Review 113 (2), 396-429.
"Incentives and Defaults Can Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Intentions and Test Demand" with Nora Szech. Management Science 69 (2), 723-1322, iii-iv.[Paper]
"Risk Attitudes and Conflict in the Household" (2022), Economic Journal 132 (642), 767-795.
"Mistakes, Overconfidence and the Effect of Sharing in Detecting Lies," with Uri Gneezy (2021). American Economic Review 111 (10), 3160-3183.
"The (In)Elasticity of Moral Ignorance" with Nora Szech (2022). Management Science 68 (7), 4755-5555, iv-v.
"Non-replicable Publications Are Cited More than Replicable Ones," with Uri Gneezy (2021). Science Advances 7 (21), eabd1705. [Data]
"Time-Inconsistent Charitable Giving", with Jim Andreoni (2021), Journal of Public Economics 198, 104391. [Paper, July 2020 Version][Data]
"The Pledging Puzzle: How Can Revocable Promises Increase Charitable Giving?", with Jim Andreoni (2021), Management Science 67 (10), 5969-6627. [Paper][Data]
"Can Short Psychological Interventions Affect Academic Performance? Revisiting the Effect of Self-Affirmation Interventions", with Uri Gneezy and Karsten Hansen, Psychological Science (2020), 31 (7), 865-872. [Paper][Data]
"Bribing the Self", with Uri Gneezy, Silvia Saccardo and Roel van Veldhuizen, Games and Economic Behavior (2020) 120, 311-324. [Paper][Data]
"The Impact of Financial Education on Adolescents' Intertemporal Choices", with Melanie Lührmann and Joachim Winter, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2018) 10 (3), 309-332. [Paper][Data]
"The Threat of Exclusion and Implicit Contracting", with Martin Brown, Management Science (2017), 63 (12), 4081 - 4100. [Paper][Data]
"Peer Effects in Risk Taking: Envy or Conformity?", with Amrei Lahno, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (2015), 50, 75-93. [Data]
"Measuring lying aversion", with Uri Gneezy and Bettina Rockenbach, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2013), 93, 293-300.[Paper][Data]
"Lying about what you know or about what you do?", with Eric van Damme and Jan Potters, Journal of the European Economic Association (2013), 11 (5), 1204-1229. [Paper][Data]
"Hiding an Inconvenient Truth: Lies and Vagueness", with Eric van Damme and Jan Potters, Games and Economic Behavior (2011) 73, 244-261. [Paper][Data]
Working Papers
"The Attention-Information Tradeoff", CESifo Working Paper No. 11885. Revise and resubmit, at American Economic Review.
"Why Don’t People Lie More? Truth Is (Wrongly) Believed To Be More Persuasive" with Uri Gneezy, Revise and resubmit, at Economic Journal.
"Understanding Trust in AI as an Information Source: Cross-Country Evidence," with Sanchaita Hazra, CESifo Working Paper No. 11954, under review.
"Stereotypes in Generosity" with Christine Exley and John-Henry Pezzuto.
"Give Enough or Not at All" with Jean Zhang, Gal Smitiszky, and Ayelet Gneezy, under review.
Book Chapters
"Lying in Economics" (2018), The Oxford Handbook of Lying. Oxford University Press. [PDF]
"Who Gives? The Roles of Empathy and Impulsivity," with Jim Andreoni and Ann-Kathrin Koessler (2018), The Economics of Philanthropy: Donations and Fundraising. MIT Press. [PDF]
“Lies in disguise – an experimental study on cheating (by Urs Fischbacher and Franziska Föllmi-Heusi)," with Uri Gneezy (2021). The Art of Experimental Economics – Twenty Top Papers Reviewed (eds. G. Charness and M. Pingle). Routledge. [PDF]
"Measuring Dishonesty" (2025), Handbook of Experimental Methods in the Social Sciences (Ed. Alex Rees-Jones), forthcoming. [PDF]
"Belief Management and Unethical Behavior" (2025), with Sam Lindquist and Silvia Saccardo. Research Handbook on Unethical Behavior, forthcoming.
Current Research Awards:
NSF Research Award: "The Information-Attention Tradeoff: Toward an Understanding of the Fundamentals of Online Attention," 2024-2027.