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Theme 3 - Cultural and Societal Background

Third, we use cross-cultural experiments to study the role of cultural influences on strong reciprocity and how culture interacts with incentive structures: when does culture matter for cooperation?

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]
• 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].
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]

Works in Progress:

• Schulz, Jonathan “Kin Networks and Institutional Development”
• Gächter, Simon, Jonathan Schulz and Christian Thöni, “The Complementarity of Good Institutions and Voluntary Cooperation: Experimental Evidence from 43 Societies”
• Funaki, Yukihiko, Simon Gächter, Masao Ogaki, Fumio Ohtake, and Robert Veszteg "Detrimental Effects of Peer Punishment in Japan."
• Weber, Till, Benjamin Beranek, Simon Gächter, Fatima Lambarraa, and Jonathan Schulz, “Voluntary Cooperation in WEIRD and Non-WEIRD Societies: The Roles of Preferences, Beliefs, and Punishment”
• Beranek, Benjamin, Simon Gächter, and Lucas Molleman "Culture of Honor Revisited: Examining Punishment Behavior of US Southerners in Social Dilemmas"

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