Publications
Amir-ud-Din, R., Khan, M., Murad, Z & Mussio, I. (2025) Clear Waters, Bright Futures: Do Low-Cost Information Interventions Increase Health Preventive Behaviors. Health Economics.
Reported in Medical Xpress, NewsWise and UoP News
Coutts, A., Gerhards, L. & Murad, Z. (2024) What to Blame? Self-serving attribution bias with multi-dimensional uncertainty. The Economic Journal, Vol. 134, pp. 1835–1874.
Whitman, K., Murad, Z. & Cox, J. (2024) Psychological Reactance to Anti-Piracy Messages Explained by Gender and Attitudes. Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 194, pp. 61–75.
Reported in TorrentFreak and Science Alert
Mantilla, C. & Murad, Z. (2022) Ego-Relevance in Team Production. PLoS one, 17(12), e0279391.
Murad, Z & Starmer, C. (2021) Confidence Snowballing and Relative Performance Feedback. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 190, pp. 550-572
Reported in a more accesible blog post for non-academic audience: Confidence Snowballing and Relative Performance Feedback
Huang, L. & Murad, Z. (2021) Fighting Alone versus Fighting For A Team: Evidence From Experimental Pairwise Contests. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 183, pp. 616-631
Reported in a more accessible blog post for non-academic audience: Working in teams or working alone: What works best in public service?
Huang, L., DeScioli, P., & Murad, Z. (2021) Pulling for the Team: Competition Between Individuals, Groups and Political Partisans. Evolutionary Psychological Science, Vol.7, pp. 97-105
Elkomy, S., Murad, Z. & Veleanu, V. (2020) Does Leadership Matter for Healthcare Service Quality? Evidence from NHS England International Public Management Journal, pp. 1.-28.
Reported in a more accessible blog post for non-academic audience: Leadership in English NHS
Huang, L. & Murad, Z. (2020) Feedback Spillover Effect on Competitiveness Across Unrelated Tasks, Behavioral Research in Accounting, 32 (1), 69-85
Reported in a more accesible blog post for non-academic audience: When Feedback May Hurt
Murad, Z., Stavropoulou, C. & Cookson, G. (2019) Incentives and gender in a multitask setting: an experimental study with real-effort tasks. PLoS one 14(3): e0213080.
Reported in a more accesible blog post for non-academic audience: Mutitasking in Organisations
Murad, Z., Sefton, M., & Starmer, C. (2016). How do risk attitudes affect measured confidence? Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 52(1), 21-46.
Murad, Z. (2016). Does group discussion lead to better informed and more strategic market entry decisions? Economics Letters, 44, 25-28
Working papers
Movahedi, T. & Murad, Z. (2025) Identity-based discrimination and moral wiggle room (under review)
Coutts, A., Koh, B.H. & Murad, Z. (2025) The signals we give: Performance feedback, gender and competition (R&R at Management Science)
Dormans, B., Murad, Z. & Ozturk, E., (2025) Malovelent Dreamers Who Do: Dark Tetrad And Intrapreneurship In A General Population Sample (available upon request)
Fossen, F., Murad, Z. & Ozturk, E., (2025) Dark Personality Traits and Entrepreneurship: A Pre-registered Study in a General Population Sample (under review)
Murad, Z & Ozturk. E, (2024) Breaking Barriers: The Impact of Co-Leadership on Gender Gap in Leadership Participation (under review)
Murad, Z., Ozturk, E., Sheng, Y. & Suetens, S. (2024) Ethnic Salience and Discrimination with Supplementary Materials (under review).
Huseynov, S. and Murad, Z. (2024) Seeing Through Different Lenses: Partisanship and Updating of Inflation Expectations (under review)
Whitman, K, Murad, Z. and Cox, J. (2023) Confessions of a pirate: gender difference in survey prime to increase honest reporting (under review)
Whitman, K, Murad, Z. Cox, J., Ekinci, Y. (2024) Brandishing Virtue: How CSR and Brand Identity Reduce Consumer Antisocial Tendencies (under review)
Burnell, N., Cojuharenco, I. & Murad, Z. (2020) He Taught, She Taught: The effect of teaching style, academic credentials, bias awareness and academic discipline on gender bias in teaching evaluations. Working Papers in Economics & Finance 2020-05, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth Business School, Economics and Finance Subject Group.
Murad, Z. & Dowell, R. (2020) Foreign visa salary requirement and natives’ reservation wages. Working Papers in Economics & Finance 2020-06, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth Business School, Economics and Finance Subject Group.
Non-peer-reviewed publications
Murad, Z. (forthcoming) Confidence and Relative Performance, in B. Kebede (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Experimental Social Science.
Works in Progress:
Dark Personality Traits and Leadership Participation with G. Buckle and Z. E. Ozturk
Gender, Fairness and AI with L. Dong and L. Huang
Dark Personality Traits and Helping in Organizations with B. Dormans, M. Caballero and Z.E. Ozturk
Gender Reveal: The Effect of Co-leader and Follower Gender on Leadership Participation with Z. E. Ozturk