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Publications

ERC Project COOPERATION has generated a significant number of publications so far with more output being produced. This section lists publications from the project. For more information on ongoing work, please see the Research section.

 

Publications

• Till O. Weber, Jonathan F. Schulz, Benjamin Beranek, Fatima Lambarraa-Lehnhardt and Simon Gächter (November 2023) The behavioral mechanisms of voluntary cooperation across culturally diverse societies: Evidence from the US, the UK, Morocco, and Turkey. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 215, 134-152 [Data & Analysis files]
• Simon Gächter, Chris Starmer and Fabio Tufano (February 2023) Measuring "Group Cohesion" to Reveal the Power of Social Relationships in Team Production. The Review of Economics and Statistics 1-45 [Data & Analysis files]
  
• Simon Gächter, Chris Starmer, Christian Thoeni, Fabio Tufano and Till Weber (July 2022) Social closeness can help, harm and be irrelevant in solving pure coordination problems. Economic Letters 216, 110552  [Data & Analysis files] 
• Simon Gächter, Felix Koelle and Simone Quercia (September 2022) Preferences and Perceptions in Provision and Maintenance Public Goods. Games and Economic Behavior 135, 338-355 [Data & Analysis files]
• Ozan Isler and Simon Gächter (March 2022) Conforming with Peers in Honesty and Cooperation. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 195, 75-86 [Data & Analysis files].
• Cristina Bicchieri, Eugen Dimant, Simon Gächter and Daniele Nosenzo (2022) Social proximity and the erosion of norm compliance. Games and Economic Behavior 132, 59-72 [Data & Analysis files].
• Xueheng Li, Lucas Molleman and Dennie van Dolder (September 2021) Do descriptive social norms drive peer punishment? Conditional punishment strategies and their impact on cooperation. Evolution and Human Behavior 42(5), 469-47.
• Van Doesum, N. J., Murphy, R.O., Gallucci, M., Van Lange Paul + 60 co-authors, including Gaechter, S. (2021). Social mindfulness and prosociality vary across the globe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118, e2023846118 [Data & Analysis files].
• Ozan Isler, Simon Gächter, A. John Maule & Chris Starmer (July 2021). Contextualised strong reciprocity explains selfless cooperation despite selfish intuitions and weak social heuristics. Scientific Reports 11, 13868 [Data & Analysis files].
• Giamattei, Marcus, Kyanoush Seyed Yahosseini, Simon Gächter, and Lucas Molleman (2020). LIONESS Lab: a free web‐based platform for conducting interactive experiments online Journal of the Economic Science Association.
• Molleman, Lucas, Felix Kölle, Chris Starmer, and Simon Gächter (November 2019). People prefer coordinated punishment in cooperative interactions Nature Human Behaviour. 3, 1145–1153. [Supplementary Information + Instructions PDF] [Data]
• Gächter, Simon and Elke Renner (October 2018) "Leaders as role models and 'belief managers' in social dilemmas", Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 154, 321-334 [Instructions PDF] [Data & analysis files]
• Molleman, Lucas and Simon Gächter, (September 2018). Societal background influences social learning in cooperative decision making Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(5), 547-555. [Supplementary Information PDF], [Data and analysis files]
• Gächter, Simon, Lingbo Huang, and Martin Sefton (July 2018). Disappointment Aversion and Social Comparisons in a Real-Effort Competition. Economic Inquiry 56(3), 1512-1525.
• Schulz, Jonathan, Petra Thiemann, and Christian Thöni (June 2018).Nudging generosity: Choice architecture and cognitive factors in charitable giving. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 74, 139-145
• Weber, Till, Ori Weisel, and Simon Gächter (June 2018). Dispositional free riders do not free ride on punishment Nature Communications 9, 2390 [Online Supplementary Materials PDF] [Data & Analysis Files]
• Arechar, Antonio, Gächter, Simon, and Lucas Molleman (March 2018). Conducting interactive experiments online. Experimental Economics 21, 99-131. [Supplementary Materials including Data]
• Soraperra, Ivan, Ori Weisel, Ro'i Zultan, Sys Kochavi, Margarita Leib, Hadar Shalev, and Shaul Shalvi (November 2017). The bad consequences of teamwork. Economics Letters, 160, 12-15. [Supplementary Materials including Data]
• Junikka, Jaakko, Lucas Molleman, Pieter van den Berg, Franz J. Weissing, and Mikael Puurtinen (October 2017). Assortment, but not knowledge of assortment, affects cooperation and individual success in human groups. PLoS ONE, 12(10). [Supplementary Materials including Data]
• Gächter, Simon, Felix Kölle, and Simone Quercia (September 2017). Reciprocity and the tragedies of maintaining and providing the commons. Nature Human Behaviour, 1(9), 650-656. [Supplementary Materials] [Data and Analysis Files] [News & Views by Herbert Gintis] [Editorial] 
• Gächter, Simon, Leonie Gerhards, and Daniele Nosenzo (August 2017). The importance of peers for compliance with norms of fair sharing. European Economic Review, 97, 72-86. [Supplementary Materials including Data]
• Cubitt, Robin, Simon Gächter, and Simone Quercia (July 2017). Conditional Cooperation and Betrayal Aversion. Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization, 141, 110-121. [Supplementary Materials including Data]
• Gächter, Simon, Friederike Mengel, Elias Tsakas, and Alexander Vostroknutov (June 2017). Growth and inequality in public good provision. Journal of Public Economics, 150, 1-13. [Supplementary Materials including Data]
• Glowacki, Luke and Lucas Molleman (April 2017). Subsistence styles shape human social learning strategies. Nature Human Behaviour, 1(0098). [News & Views by Alex Mesoudi]
• Gächter, Simon, Lingbo Huang, and Martin Sefton (December 2016). Combining "Real Effort" with Induced Effort Costs: The Ball-Catching Task. Experimental Economics, 19(4), 687-712. [Supplementary Materials including Demo Video, zTree Files, and Data]
• Chuah, Swee Hoon, Simon Gächter, Robert Hoffmann, and Jonathan H.W. Tan (November 2016). Religion, discrimination and trust across three cultures. European Economic Review, 90, 280-301. [Supplementary Materials including Data]
• Swakman, Violet, Lucas Molleman, Aljaz Ule and Martijn Egas (May 2016). Reputation-based cooperation: empirical evidence for behavioral strategies. Evolution and Human Behavior, 37(3), 230-235. [Supplementary Materials including Data]
• Stewart, Neil, Simon Gächter, Takao Noguchi, and Timothy L. Mullett (April-July 2016). Eye Movement in Strategic Choice. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 29(2-3), 137-156.
• Gächter, Simon and Jonathan F. Schulz (March 2016). Intrinsic honesty and the prevalence of rule violations across societies. Nature, 496-499. [Supplementary Materials] [Data] [News & Views by Shaul Shalvi]
• Schulz, Jonathan F. and Christian Thöni (January 2016). Overconfidence and Career Choice. PLoS ONE, 11(1).
• Halevy, Nir, Tamar A Kreps, Ori Weisel, and Amit Goldenberg (December 2015). Morality in intergroup conflict. Current Opinion in Psychology, 6, 10-14.
• Van den Berg, Pieter, Lucas Molleman, Jaakko Junikka, Mikael Puurtinen, and Franz J. Weissing (November 2015). Human cooperation in groups: variation begets variation. Scientific Reports, 5:16144.
• Gächter, Simon (October 2015). Visible inequality breeds more inequality. Nature, 526, 333-334.
• Weisel, Ori and Robert Böhm (September 2015). “Ingroup love” and “outgroup hate” in intergroup conflict between natural groups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 60, 110-120.
• Kölle, Felix, Dirk Sliwka, and Nannan Zhou (August 2015). Heterogeneity, inequity aversion, and group performance. Social Choice and Welfare, 46(2), 263-286.
• Weisel, Ori and Shaul Shalvi (August 2015). The collaborative roots of corruption. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(34), 10651-10656. [Supplementary Materials including Data]
• Beranek, Benjamin, Robin Cubitt, and Simon Gächter (July 2015). Stated and revealed inequality aversion in three subject pools. Journal of the Economic Science Association, 1(1), 43-58. [Supplementary Materials including Data]
• Gächter, Simon, Chris Starmer, and Fabio Tufano (June 2015). Measuring the Closeness of Relationships: A Comprehensive Evaluation of the 'Inclusion of the Other in the Self' Scale. PLoS ONE, 10(6). [Supplementary Materials including Data]
• Thöni, Christian, and Simon Gächter (June 2015). Peer Effects and Social Preferences in Voluntary Cooperation: A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis. Journal of Economic Psychology, 48, 72-88.
• Hartig, Björn, Bernd Irlenbusch, and Felix Kölle (April 2015). Conditioning on what? Heterogeneous contributions and conditional cooperation. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 55, 48-64.
• Van den Berg, Pieter, Lucas Molleman, and Franz J. Weissing (2015). Focus on the success of others leads to selfish behaviour. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, 2912-2917.
• Kölle, Felix (January 2015). Heterogeneity and cooperation: The role of capability and valuation on public goods provision. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 109, 120-134.
• Gächter, Simon (2014). Human Pro-Social Motivation and the Maintenance of Social Order. In The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law, edited by E. Zamir, and D. Teichman, (Eds.). Oxford University Press.
• Gächter, Simon, Daniele Nosenzo, and Martin Sefton (2013). Peer Effects in Pro-Social Behavior: Social Norms or Social Preferences? Journal of the European Economic Association, 11, 548-573.
• Gächter, Simon (2013). Rationality, Social Preferences and Strategic Decision-Making from a Behavioral Economics Perspective. In Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research, edited by R. Wittek, et al., (Eds.). Stanford University Press.