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Theme 2 - Peer Effects and Social Norms

Second, we investigate how strong reciprocity relates to social norms of cooperation and is shaped by social context.

Publications:

• 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 and 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]
• 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), 469-479.
• 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 zip files]
• 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, 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]
• Glowacki, Luke and Lucas Molleman (April 2017). Subsistence styles shape human social learning strategies. Nature Human Behaviour, 1(0098).
• 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]
• 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.
• Weisel Ori and Roberm Böhm (September 2015). “Ingroup love” and “outgroup hate” in intergroup conflict between natural groups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 60, 110-120.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Works in Progress:

• Alonso, Antonio, Antonio Espin, Jeroen Niebor, Chris Starmer, and Simon Gächter "The cheap power of social control for sustaining the common good".
• Avrahami, Judith, Simon Gächter, Yaakov Kareev, and Ilana Ritov "Is There a Bystander Effect in Punishment of Free Riders in Social Dilemmas?"
   

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