Oliver Hauser

3.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
53 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Oliver Hauser is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Safety Research and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Oliver Hauser has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 22 papers in Safety Research and 7 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Oliver Hauser's work include Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (21 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (11 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (6 papers). Oliver Hauser is often cited by papers focused on Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (21 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (11 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (6 papers). Oliver Hauser collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Oliver Hauser's co-authors include Martin A. Nowak, Michael I. Norton, Anil R. Doshi, David G. Rand, Alexander Peysakhovich, Christian Hilbe, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Jon Jachimowicz, Aaron Page and Francesca Gino and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Oliver Hauser

49 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Cooperating with the future 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2017 2024 50 100 150 200
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Cooperating with the future
    2014 245 citations Oliver Hauser, David G. Rand et al. Nature profile →
  2. (Mis)perceptions of inequality
    2017 193 citations Oliver Hauser, Michael I. Norton Current Opinion in Psychology profile →
  3. Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content
    2024 154 citations Oliver Hauser et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Oliver Hauser United Kingdom 21 741 446 236 207 195 53 1.7k
Oleg Smirnov United States 18 558 0.8× 348 0.8× 185 0.8× 35 0.2× 119 0.6× 72 1.4k
Zachary P. Neal United States 32 772 1.0× 98 0.2× 102 0.4× 44 0.2× 182 0.9× 132 3.0k
Rajiv Sethi United States 22 761 1.0× 582 1.3× 91 0.4× 46 0.2× 28 0.1× 90 1.8k
Daniel Schunk Germany 24 325 0.4× 529 1.2× 79 0.3× 15 0.1× 184 0.9× 75 1.9k
Brandon C. Welsh United States 26 1.6k 2.2× 192 0.4× 95 0.4× 67 0.3× 177 0.9× 84 2.7k
Brandon C. Welsh United States 27 1.8k 2.4× 156 0.3× 114 0.5× 56 0.3× 241 1.2× 84 2.9k
Pier Luigi Sacco Italy 25 862 1.2× 68 0.2× 89 0.4× 67 0.3× 226 1.2× 164 2.2k
Brenton M. Wiernik United States 22 346 0.5× 87 0.2× 33 0.1× 55 0.3× 431 2.2× 63 2.0k
Minh‐Hoang Nguyen Vietnam 25 493 0.7× 80 0.2× 149 0.6× 102 0.5× 286 1.5× 143 2.0k
Martin Peterson United States 18 562 0.8× 143 0.3× 150 0.6× 25 0.1× 70 0.4× 97 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Oliver Hauser

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Fields of papers citing papers by Oliver Hauser

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Oliver Hauser

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Oliver Hauser. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Oliver Hauser based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Oliver Hauser. Oliver Hauser is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hauser, Oliver, et al.. (2025). Dynamics of cooperation in concurrent games. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1524–1524. 3 indexed citations
2.
Chang, Edward H., et al.. (2025). Behaviorally designed training leads to more diverse hiring. Science. 387(6732). 364–366. 5 indexed citations
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Hauser, Oliver, et al.. (2024). Uncovering individualised treatment effects for educational trials. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 22606–22606. 1 indexed citations
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Exley, Christine L., et al.. (2024). Believed Gender Differences in Social Preferences. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 140(1). 403–458. 4 indexed citations
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Balmford, Ben, et al.. (2023). Voting Sustains Intergenerational Cooperation, Even When the Tipping Point Threshold is Ambiguous. Environmental and Resource Economics. 87(1). 167–190. 3 indexed citations
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Koster, Raphaël, Jan Balaguer, Andrea Tacchetti, et al.. (2022). Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI. Nature Human Behaviour. 6(10). 1398–1407. 51 indexed citations
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Hauser, Oliver, et al.. (2022). Measuring inequality beyond the Gini coefficient may clarify conflicting findings. Nature Human Behaviour. 6(11). 1525–1536. 36 indexed citations
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Fasolo, Barbara, et al.. (2022). Deception about study purpose does not affect participant behavior. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 19302–19302. 5 indexed citations
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Kristal, Ariella, et al.. (2022). Reducing discrimination against job seekers with and without employment gaps. Nature Human Behaviour. 7(2). 211–218. 6 indexed citations
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Hilbe, Christian, et al.. (2021). (Mis)perceiving cooperativeness. Current Opinion in Psychology. 43. 151–155. 10 indexed citations
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Hauser, Oliver, et al.. (2021). Climate Action for (My) Children. Environmental and Resource Economics. 81(1). 95–130. 6 indexed citations
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Liu, Fei, Aaron Page, Sarah A. Strode, et al.. (2020). Abrupt decline in tropospheric nitrogen dioxide over China after the outbreak of COVID-19. Science Advances. 6(28). eabc2992–eabc2992. 242 indexed citations
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Hauser, Oliver, et al.. (2020). Evolving cooperation in multichannel games. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3885–3885. 36 indexed citations
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Hauser, Oliver, et al.. (2018). Minority Report: A Big Data Approach to Organizational Attempts at Deterring Unethical Behavior. 3 indexed citations
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Hauser, Oliver, et al.. (2017). Giving to Receive: Moral Self-Regard and Positive Affect Increase When Giving Time But Not Money. ACR North American Advances. 1 indexed citations
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Hauser, Oliver & Michael I. Norton. (2017). (Mis)perceptions of inequality. Current Opinion in Psychology. 18. 21–25. 193 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hauser, Oliver, Martin A. Nowak, & David G. Rand. (2014). Punishment does not promote cooperation under exploration dynamics when anti-social punishment is possible. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 360. 163–171. 48 indexed citations
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Hauser, Oliver, David G. Rand, Alexander Peysakhovich, & Martin A. Nowak. (2014). Cooperating with the future. Nature. 511(7508). 220–223. 245 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hauser, Oliver, Arne Traulsen, & Martin A. Nowak. (2013). Heterogeneity in background fitness acts as a suppressor of selection. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 343. 178–185. 21 indexed citations
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Brattain, Laura J., Oliver Hauser, Minh Nguyen, et al.. (2011). Simple and effective ultrasound needle guidance system. PubMed. 2011. 8090–8093. 14 indexed citations

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