Standout Papers
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The Neural Basis of Economic Decision-Making in the Ultimatum Game
2003 StandoutScience
Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases
2017 StandoutScience
The Neural Basis of Altruistic Punishment
2004 Science
The Handbook of Organizational Economics
2013
The Drama of the Commons
2002 StandoutNobel
The evolution of altruism by costly punishment in lattice-structured populations: score-dependent viability versus score-dependent fertility
2005
Endogenous Preferences: The Cultural Consequences of Markets and Other Economic Institutions
2016
The W effect of incentives
2003
WEIRD languages have misled us, too [Comment on Henrich et al.]
2010 Standout
The evolution of strong reciprocity: cooperation in heterogeneous populations
2003
Risk Aversion: Experimental Evidence from South African Fishing Communities
2012
John Snow's legacy: epidemiology without borders
2013 StandoutNobel
Indirect reciprocity can stabilize cooperation without the second-order free rider problem
2004 Nature
How should we define goodness?—reputation dynamics in indirect reciprocity
2004
Evolution of indirect reciprocity
2005 StandoutNature
Most people are not WEIRD
2010 StandoutNature
Social diversity promotes the emergence of cooperation in public goods games
2008 Nature
Evolutionary Explanations for Cooperation
2007
The logic of reprobation: assessment and action rules for indirect reciprocation
2004
Brain Responses to the Acquired Moral Status of Faces
2004
Coral reefs in the Anthropocene
2017 StandoutNature
Human large-scale cooperation as a product of competition between cultural groups
2020
Social norms and human cooperation
2004
Monkeys reject unequal pay
2003 Nature
Reputation helps solve the ‘tragedy of the commons’
2002 Nature
Hierarchical group dynamics in pigeon flocks
2010 StandoutNature
A simple rule for the evolution of cooperation on graphs and social networks
2006 StandoutNature
Unifying the Theories of Inclusive Fitness and Reciprocal Altruism
2006
Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition
2005 Standout
Oxytocin increases trust in humans
2005 StandoutNature
The Long-Term Benefits of Human Generosity in Indirect Reciprocity
2002
The weirdest people in the world?
2010 Standout
Image scoring and cooperation in a cleaner fish mutualism
2006 Nature
Costly Signaling and Cooperation
2001
Social neuroeconomics: the neural circuitry of social preferences
2007
Cognitive neuroscience of human social behaviour
2003
Strong Reciprocity and Human Sociality
2000
Identity, Morals, and Taboos: Beliefs as Assets *
2011 StandoutNobel
Mapping the moral domain.
2011 Standout
Altruistic cooperation during foraging by the Ache, and the evolved human predisposition to cooperate
2002
The Human Condition—A Molecular Approach
2014 StandoutNobel
Human altruism: economic, neural, and evolutionary perspectives
2004
Simple Adaptive Strategy Wins the Prisoner's Dilemma
2002
How to identify trust and reciprocity
2003
The Struggle to Govern the Commons
2003 StandoutScienceNobel
The moonlighting game
2000
Promises and Partnership
2006
Imperfect Public Monitoring with Costly Punishment: An Experimental Study
2012
Deferred Compensation in Multiperiod Labor Contracts: An Experimental Test of Lazear's Model
2011
SELF-ESTEEM, MORAL CAPITAL, AND WRONGDOING
2013
Attribution and Reciprocity in an Experimental Labor Market
2001
In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies
2001 Standout
Strikes, Scabs, and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires
2004
Interdependent Preferences and Reciprocity
2005
On the Nature of Fair Behavior
2002
Insights on linking forests, trees, and people from the air, on the ground, and in the laboratory
2006 StandoutNobel
Decomposing Trust and Trustworthiness
2006
Do High Stakes and Competition Undermine Fairness? Evidence from Russia
2002
Performance Pay and Multidimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences, and Gender
2011
Cooperation, trust, and social capital in Southeast Asian urban slums
2004
Going beyond panaceas
2007 StandoutNobel
The Spreading of Disorder
2008 StandoutScience
Theories of behavior in principal–agent relationships with hidden action
2007
Wage inequality and team production: An experimental analysis
2010
Attribution and Reciprocity in an Experimental Labor Market
2004
Order with Some Law: Complementarity vs. Substitution of Formal and Informal Arrangements
2001
Gender Differences in Preferences
2009 Standout
Rise and fall of competitiveness in individualistic and collectivistic societies
2013
Beyond Homo economicus: evidence from experimental economics
2000
Reflections on Finance and the Good Society
2013 StandoutNobel
The impact of social approval and framing on cooperation in public good situations
2003
Distrust - the Hidden Cost of Control
2004
The evolution of altruistic punishment
2003
What you don’t know won’t hurt me: Costly (but quiet) exit in dictator games
2005
Testing theories of fairness—Intentions matter
2007
Slow to Anger and Fast to Forgive: Cooperation in an Uncertain World
2013
Essential Role of BDNF in the Mesolimbic Dopamine Pathway in Social Defeat Stress
2006 StandoutScience
Incremental Commitment and Reciprocity in a Real-Time Public Goods Game
2001 StandoutNobel
Specific and general information sharing among competing academic researchers
2013
Does stake size matter for cooperation and punishment?
2007
What can machine learning do? Workforce implications
2017 StandoutScience
Science of science
2018 StandoutScience
Microfoundations of social capital
2012
Incentives and Prosocial Behavior
2006 StandoutNobel
Intuition, deliberation, and the evolution of cooperation
2016
Inequality at Work: The Effect of Peer Salaries on Job Satisfaction
2012 StandoutNobel
The economics of altruistic punishment and the maintenance of cooperation
2008
The New Synthesis in Moral Psychology
2007 StandoutScience
Empathy for Pain Involves the Affective but not Sensory Components of Pain
2004 StandoutScience
z-Tree: Zurich toolbox for ready-made economic experiments
2007 Standout
A theory of reciprocity
2005 Standout
Volunteering as Red Queen Mechanism for Cooperation in Public Goods Games
2002 Science
ERC: A Theory of Equity, Reciprocity, and Competition
2000 Standout
The Anatomy of Motivation: An Evolutionary-Ecological Approach
2013
Indirect Reciprocity and Strategic Reputation Building in an Experimental Helping Game
2003
Crowding Out in Blood Donation: Was Titmuss Right?
2008
Social Comparisons and Pro-social Behavior: Testing “Conditional Cooperation” in a Field Experiment
2004
Self-Esteem, Moral Capital, and Wrongdoing
2008
Institutional Failure in Resource Management
2006
Collective Action and the Evolution of Social Norms
2000 StandoutNobel
The company of strangers: a natural history of economic life
2004
Markets, Religion, Community Size, and the Evolution of Fairness and Punishment
2010 Science
The good, the bad and the lonely
2002 Nature
Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social Cognition: The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis
2007 StandoutScience
When Does "Economic Man" Dominate Social Behavior?
2006 Science
Do non-strategic sanctions obey the law of demand? The demand for punishment in the voluntary contribution mechanism
2004
2010
What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World?
2007 Standout
Regime shifts in a socio-ecological model of farmland abandonment
2011
Local Enforcement and Better Forests
2004 StandoutNobel
Psychology and Economics: Evidence from the Field
2009
Evolution of Social Behavior: Individual and Group Selection
2002
Split or Steal? Cooperative Behavior When the Stakes Are Large
2011 StandoutNobel
Does Pay Inequality Affect Worker Effort? Experimental Evidence
2007
Heterogeneity in Risky Choice Behavior in a Broad Population
2011
The Competitive Advantage of Sanctioning Institutions
2006 Science
Cooperation and Punishment, Especially in Humans
2004
Polycentric systems for coping with collective action and global environmental change
2010 Nobel
Genetic legacy of state centralization in the Kuba Kingdom of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
2018 StandoutNobel
2010
Group interaction, heterogeneity, rules, and co-operative behaviour: Evidence from a common-pool resource experiment in South Africa and Namibia
2011
Truth or Consequences: An Experiment
2003
Decentralized management of common property resources: experiments with a centuries-old institution
2003
THE EFFECT OF REWARDS AND SANCTIONS IN PROVISION OF PUBLIC GOODS
2007
Reciprocity in a two-part dictator game
2003
Group Competition, Reproductive Leveling, and the Evolution of Human Altruism
2006 Science
Contracts as Reference Points*
2008 StandoutNobel
Explaining altruistic behavior in humans
2003
A General Framework for Analyzing Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems
2009 StandoutScienceNobel
Beyond WEIRD: Towards a broad-based behavioral science
2010
Pride and Prejudice: The Human Side of Incentive Theory
2008
Five Rules for the Evolution of Cooperation
2006 StandoutScience
Social norms and energy conservation
2011 Standout
Standing United or Falling Divided? High Stakes Bargaining in a TV Game Show
2015 StandoutNobel
A Theory of Fairness, Competition, and Cooperation
1999 Standout
Third-party punishment and social norms
2004
Gregariousness, interactive jobs and wages
2012
Preference Evolution and Reciprocity
2001
Identity and the Economics of Organizations
2005 Nobel
What you don't Know Won't Hurt me: Costly (but quiet) Exit in a Dictator Game
2005
Social Comparison Affects Reward-Related Brain Activity in the Human Ventral Striatum
2007 Science
The Sequential Prisoner's Dilemma: Evidence on Reciprocation
2001
Tax compliance under tax regime changes
2012
Rewards and Sanctions and the Provision of Public Goods in One-Shot Settings
2004
Nobody's watching?
2005
An Experimental Analysis of Trust and Trustworthiness
2007
Pay Enough or Don't Pay at All*
2000
Sorting and Social Preferences
2009
The Influence of Social Hierarchy on Primate Health
2005 StandoutScience
The price of a price: on the crowding out and in of social norms
2004
Fairness Perceptions and Reservation Wages--the Behavioral Effects of Minimum Wage Laws
2006
Discrimination in a Segmented Society: An Experimental Approach
2001 Standout
A theory of sequential reciprocity
2003
What Can Economists Learn from Happiness Research?
2002 Standout
From reciprocity to unconditional altruism through signalling benefits
2003
Social background, cooperative behavior, and norm enforcement
2011
Friend or Foe? Cooperation and Learning in High-Stakes Games
2010
Monitoring and sanctioning in the commons: An application to forestry
2009
In Honor of Matthew Rabin: Winner of the John Bates Clark Medal
2003 StandoutNobel
Indirect reciprocity, image scoring, and moral hazard
2005
The Nash equilibrium: A perspective
2004 StandoutNobel
A diagnostic approach for going beyond panaceas
2007 StandoutNobel
Reward and punishment
2001
The Hidden Costs of Control
2006
Evaluating replicability of laboratory experiments in economics
2016 StandoutScience
Communication and punishment in voluntary contribution experiments
2005
Gender selection discrimination: Evidence from a Trust game
2010
Sorting in Experiments with Application to Social Preferences
2012
L'économie à ses frontières (sociologie, psychologie)
2007
Human Motivation and Social Cooperation: Experimental and Analytical Foundations
2007
Effort and Comparison Income: Experimental and Survey Evidence
2010
Reference Points and Effort Provision
2011
Do formal contracts and relational governance function as substitutes or complements?
2002 Standout
Social status and group norms: Indirect reciprocity in a repeated helping experiment
2004
The Carrot or the Stick: Rewards, Punishments, and Cooperation
2003
Promoting rule compliance in daily-life: Evidence from a randomized field experiment in the public libraries of Barcelona
2013
Being surveyed can change later behavior and related parameter estimates
2011 StandoutNobel
Works of Simon Gächter being referenced
Culture and cooperation
2010
Individual-level loss aversion in riskless and risky choices
2021
Altruistic punishment in humans
2002 StandoutNature
Are people conditionally cooperative? Evidence from a public goods experiment
2001 Standout
Reciprocity, culture and human cooperation: previous insights and a new cross-cultural experiment
2008
Social comparison and performance: Experimental evidence on the fair wage–effort hypothesis
2010
WHO MAKES A GOOD LEADER? COOPERATIVENESS, OPTIMISM, AND LEADING‐BY‐EXAMPLE
2010
Reciprocity as a Contract Enforcement Device: Experimental Evidence
1997
The framing of games and the psychology of play
2011
The limits of self-governance when cooperators get punished: Experimental evidence from urban and rural Russia
2010
Collective action as a social exchange
1999
Efficient contracting and fair play in a simple principal-agent experiment
2000
Reputation and Reciprocity: Consequences for the Labour Relation
2002
Fairness and Retaliation: The Economics of Reciprocity
2000
Fairness in the Labour Market? A Survey of Experimental Results
2002
When Social Norms Overpower Competition: Gift Exchange in Experimental Labor Markets
1998
Reciprocity and economics: The economic implications of Homo Reciprocans
1998
Do incentive contracts undermine voluntary cooperation?
2002
Moral Property Rights in Bargaining with Infeasible Claims
2005
Living in Two Neighborhoods - Social Interactions in the Lab
2004
Social Learning and Voluntary Cooperation among like-Minded People
2005
The puzzle of human cooperation
2003 Nature
Fairness and Retaliation: The Economics of Reciprocity
2000 Standout
Social Learning and Voluntary Cooperation Among Like-minded People
2004
Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods Experiments
2010
A Simple Mechanism for the Efficient Provision of Public Goods: Experimental Evidence
2000
Do Incentive Contracts Crowd Out Voluntary Cooperation?
2000
Sequential vs. simultaneous contributions to public goods: Experimental evidence
2010
Antisocial Punishment Across Societies
2008 Science
Living in Two Neighborhoods - Social Interactions in the Lab
2003
The Long-Run Benefits of Punishment
2008 Science
Living in Two Neighborhoods: Social Interactions in the Lab
2003
Do Incentive Contracts Undermine Voluntary Cooperation?
2002
Initiating private-collective innovation: The fragility of knowledge sharing
2010
Social Learning and Voluntary Cooperation Among Like-Minded People
2005
Trust, voluntary cooperation, and socio-economic background: survey and experimental evidence
2004
Intrinsic motivation and extrinsic incentives in a repeated game with incomplete contracts
1999
Are People Conditionally Cooperative? Evidence from a Public Goods Experiment
2000
Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments
2000 Standout