Benedikt Herrmann joined the School in April 2005 after a previous fellowship at the Kennedy School of Government/Harvard University. His research interests are in the fields of neuroeconomics and experimental economics, both related to the nature of prosocial preferences.

1. "Measuring conditional cooperation: A Replication Study in Russia", forthcoming in Experimental Economics (with Christian Thöni).

2. Betrayal aversion: Evidence from Brazil, China, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the United States", American Economic Review 98(1), 2008, 294-310 (with Iris Bohnet, Fiona Greig, and Richard Zeckhauser).

3. "Antisocial Punishment Across Societies" Science 319, 7 March 2008, 1362-1367 (with Simon Gächter and Christian Thöni). [abstract], [article], [supplementary materials], [commentary by Herb Gintis], [further information].

4. “The Elasticity of Trust: Evidence from Kuwait, Oman, Switzerland, The United Arab Emirates and the United States”, accepted (subject to minor changes) by the Quarterly Journal of Economics, (with Iris Bohnet and Richard Zeckhauser).

5. “Human Cooperation from an Economic Perspective”, in “Cooperation in Primates and Humans, Mechanisms and Evolutions”, edited by P.M. Kappeler & C.P. van Schaik: 279-301 (2006), with Simon Gächter.

6. “Cross-cultural differences in norm enforcement”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28, 822 - 823 (2005), with Simon Gächter and Christian Thöni.

7. “Trust, voluntary cooperation, and socio-economic background: Survey and experimental evidence” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 55: 505-531 (2004), with Simon Gächter and Christian Thöni.

8. "A comparative study of the photosystem II membrane proteins with natural lipids in monolayers", Material Science & Engineering C (8-9): 519-522 (1999), with S. Zaitsev, N. Kalabina, C. Schaefer, and V. Zubov.

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