Nudging Teachers: A Megastudy To Increase Math Achievement Among 3 Million Elementary School Students
(with A. Duckworth, K. Milkman & BCFG Collective).
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
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Experimental Methods: Eliciting and Measuring Social Norms
(with G. Charness, U. Gneezy & E. Krupka).
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
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The Science of Honesty: A Review and Research Agenda
(collaboration led by S. Shalvi).
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
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Norm-Nudging: Harnessing Social Expectations for Behavior Change
(with C. Bicchieri).
Elgar Encyclopedia of Behavioural and Experimental Economics
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Strategic Behavior with Tight, Loose, and Polarized Norms
(with M. Gelfand, A. Hochleitner & S. Sonderegger).
Management Science
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Hate Trumps Love: The Impact of Political Polarization on Social Preferences
Management Science
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Paying Them to Hate US: Effect of U.S. Military Aid on Anti-American Terrorism, 1968-2018
(with T. Krieger & D. Meierrieks).
The Economic Journal
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Measuring Norm Pluralism and Perceived Polarization in U.S. Politics
(with F. Panizza, E. Kimbrough & A. Vostroknutov).
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Nexus
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Unraveling Polarization: Insight into Individual & Collective Dynamics
(with K. Kish Bar-On, Y. Lelkes & D. Rand).
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Nexus
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Polarization in Multidisciplinary Perspective
(with E. Kimbrough).
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Nexus
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Motivated Information Acquisition and Social Norm Formation
(with F. Galeotti & M. C. Villeval).
European Economic Review
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Social norms: Enforcement, Breakdown & Polarization
(with L. Balafoutas, S. Gächter & E. Krupka).
European Economic Review
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Beyond Average: A Method for Measuring the Tightness, Looseness, and Polarization of Social Norms.
Economics Letters
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Synthesis of Evidence for Policy from Behavioural Science During COVID-19
(collaboration led by K. Ruggeri & J. van Bavel)
Nature
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Competition & Moral Behavior: Meta-Analysis of 45 Crowd-Sourced Experimental Designs
(collaboration led by C. Huber, A. Dreber, et al.)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
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Nudging Enforcers: How Norm Perceptions and Motives for Lying Shape Sanctions
(with T. Gesche)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Nexus
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It's Not A Lie if You Believe the Norm Does Not Apply: Conditional Norm-Following and Belief Distortion
(with C. Bicchieri & S. Sonderegger)
Games & Economic Behavior
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Social Norms and Behavior Change: The Interdisciplinary Research Frontier
(with C. Bicchieri, M. Gelfand & S. Sonderegger) Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
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Politicizing Mask-Wearing: Predicting the Success of Behavioral Interventions Among Republicans and Democrats in the U.S.
(with Pieper, Clemente, Dreber, Gelfand & consortium co-authors from the Behavior Change for Good Initiative (BCFG), the Behavioral Insights Team (BIT), Center for Advanced Hindsight (CAH), and ideas42).
Nature Scientific Reports
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Social Proximity and the Erosion of Norm Compliance
(with C. Bicchieri, S. Gächter & D. Nosenzo)
Games and Economic Behavior
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Beyond Belief: How Social Engagement Motives Influence the Spread of Conspiracy Theories
(with Z. Ren & M. Schweitzer)
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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Persuading Republicans & Democrats to Comply with Mask Wearing: An Intervention Tournament
(with Gelfand, Li, Stamkou, Denison, Fernandez, Choi, Chatman, Jackson & Pieper)
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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Meta-Nudging Honesty: Past, Present, and Future of the Research Frontier
(with S. Shalvi)
Current Opinion in Psychology
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Authoritarian Leaders Share Conspiracy Theories to Attack Opponents, Promote In-Group Unity, Shift Blame, and Undermine Democratic Institutions
(with Z. Ren, A. Carton & M. Schweitzer)
Current Opinion in Psychology
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Observability and Social Image: On the Robustness and Fragility of Reciprocity
(with G. Bolton & U. Schmidt)
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
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Efficient Institutions and Effective Deterrence: On Timing and Uncertainty of Punishment (with J. Buckenmaier, A.-C. Posten & U. Schmidt) Journal of Risk & Uncertainty
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The Experience is (Not) Everything: Sequential Outcomes and Social Decision-Making
(with J. Buckenmaier)
Economics Letters
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Deviant or Wrong? The Effects of Norm Information on the Efficacy of Punishment (with C. Bicchieri & E. Xiao)
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
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Understanding Cross-Cultural Differences in Peer Reporting Practices: Evidence from Tax Evasion Games in Moldova & France
(with R. Romaniuc, D. Dubois, A. Lupusor & V. Prohnitchi)
Public Choice
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Requiem for a Nudge: Framing Effects in Nudging Honesty
(with G. Van Kleef & S. Shalvi)
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
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The Economics of Corruption in Sports: The Special Case of Doping
(with C. Deutscher), in: Frick, Humphreys, Soebbing, Pawlowski, Downward & Rusedski (eds.): Handbook of Sports
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Nudging with Care: The Risks and Benefits of Social Information
(with C. Bicchieri)
Public Choice
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Contagion of Pro- and Anti-Social Behavior Among Peers and the Role of Social Proximity
Journal of Economic Psychology
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Effects of Institutional History and Leniency on Collusive Corruption and Tax Evasion
(with J. Buckenmaier & L. Mittone)
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
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Causes & Effects of Corruption: What has Past Decade's Empirical Research Taught Us?
(with G. Tosato)
Journal of Economic Surveys
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The Nature of Corruption – An Interdisciplinary Perspective
(with T. Schulte), Special Issue of the German Law Journal
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A Crook is a Crook...But is He Still a Crook Abroad? On the Effect of Immigration on Destination-Country Corruption
(with T. Krieger and M. Redlin)
German Economic Review
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The Effect of Corruption on Migration, 1985-2000
(with T. Krieger and D. Meierrieks)
Applied Economics Letters
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The 'I' in Egalitarianism: Hadza Hunter-Gatherers Averse to Inequality Primarily when Personally Unfavourable
(with K. Smith, D. N. E. Stibbard-Hawkes, I. A. Mabulla, C. Bicchieri & C. Apicella).
Revise & Resubmit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Nexus
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Racial Identity, Reactions to Inequality & Fairness Concepts Among Americans
(with L. Reinhardt & N. Sambanis).
Revise & Resubmit: Journal of Experimental Political Science
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Match Fixing and Sports Betting in Soccer: Empirical Evidence from the German Bundesliga
(joint with C. Deutscher & B. Humphreys).
Invited for Resubmission: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
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Pluralism Breeds Tolerance
(with F. Panizza, E. Kimbrough & A. Vostroknutov). Link to WP
Link to 'Norm-Drawing Task' (ready-made Qualtrics implementation)
The Price of Identity: Overoptimism and Congruence Concerns
(with K. Donkor, L. Götte, M. Kurschilgen & M. Müller). Link to WP
Promoting Responsible Disposal of Opioids: A Randomized Evaluation of Behaviorally Informed Messaging Combined with a Financial Incentive
(with M. Tomma and colleagues from the Department of Justice, Department of State, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Office of Evaluation Sciences). Link to WP
Tell Me and I Forget, Make Me Commit and I Remember: Soft Commitments and Digital Behavior
(with A. Guido et al.). Link to WP
Becoming Friends or Foes? How Competitive Environments Shape Altruistic Preferences
(with A. Cao, K. Hyndman & N. Yang). Link to WP