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Introducing IOS11 as an extended interactive version of the ‘Inclusion of Other in the Self’ scale to estimate relationship closeness (2024)
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The study of relationship closeness has a long history in psychology and is currently expanding across the social sciences, including economics. Estimating relationship closeness requires appropriate tools. Here, we introduce and test a tool for esti... Read More about Introducing IOS11 as an extended interactive version of the ‘Inclusion of Other in the Self’ scale to estimate relationship closeness.

Measuring “Group Cohesion” to Reveal the Power of Social Relationships in Team Production (2023)
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We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We operationalize measurement of group cohesion, adapting the "oneness scale" from psychology. A series of experiments, including a pre-register... Read More about Measuring “Group Cohesion” to Reveal the Power of Social Relationships in Team Production.

Communicating the move to individualized donor selection policy: Framing messages focused on recipients and safety (2022)
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Background: Men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM) have been deferred from donating blood. However, recent evidence supports the adoption of donor screening based on individuals' sexual behavior over population-based criteria. We explore how best to frame c... Read More about Communicating the move to individualized donor selection policy: Framing messages focused on recipients and safety.

An inquiry into the nature and causes of the Description - Experience gap (2022)
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The Description-Experience gap (DE gap) is widely thought of as a tendency for people to act as if overweighting rare events when information about those events is derived from descriptions but as if underweighting rare events when they experience th... Read More about An inquiry into the nature and causes of the Description - Experience gap.

Social closeness can help, harm and be irrelevant in solving pure coordination problems (2022)
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Experimental research has shown that ordinary people often perform remarkably well in solving coordination games that involve no conflicts of interest. While most experiments in the past studied such coordination games among socially distant anonymou... Read More about Social closeness can help, harm and be irrelevant in solving pure coordination problems.

Confidence snowballing and relative performance feedback (2021)
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We investigate whether uninformative relative performance feedback can create biases in confidence leading it to 'snowball'. We study elicited confidence about own performance, relative to other group members, in three stages. As subjects move across... Read More about Confidence snowballing and relative performance feedback.

Contextualised strong reciprocity explains selfless cooperation despite selfish intuitions and weak social heuristics (2021)
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Humans frequently cooperate for collective benefit, even in one-shot social dilemmas. This provides a challenge for theories of cooperation. Two views focus on intuitions but offer conflicting explanations. The Social Heuristics Hypothesis argues tha... Read More about Contextualised strong reciprocity explains selfless cooperation despite selfish intuitions and weak social heuristics.

People prefer coordinated punishment in cooperative interactions (2019)
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Human groups can often maintain high levels of cooperation despite the threat of exploitation by individuals who reap the benefits of cooperation without contributing to its costs1,2,3,4. Prominent theoretical models suggest that cooperation is parti... Read More about People prefer coordinated punishment in cooperative interactions.

Reexamining How Utility and Weighting Functions Get Their Shapes: A Quasi-Adversarial Collaboration Providing a New Interpretation (2019)
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Stewart, Reimers and Harris (2015, SRH hereafter) demonstrated that shapes of utility and probability weighting functions could be manipulated by adjusting the distributions of outcomes and probabilities on offer, as predicted by the theory of Decisi... Read More about Reexamining How Utility and Weighting Functions Get Their Shapes: A Quasi-Adversarial Collaboration Providing a New Interpretation.

Promoting voter registration: the effects of low-cost interventions on behaviour and norms (2019)
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We report two studies investigating whether, and if so how, different low-cost interventions affect voter registration rates. Low-cost message-based interventions are increasingly used to promote target behaviours. While growing evidence shows that s... Read More about Promoting voter registration: the effects of low-cost interventions on behaviour and norms.

On the priming of risk preferences: the role of fear and general affect (2019)
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Priming is an established tool in psychology for investigating aspects of cognitive processes underlying decision making and is increasingly applied in economics. We report a systematic attempt to test the reproducibility and generalisability of prim... Read More about On the priming of risk preferences: the role of fear and general affect.

Is intuition really cooperative? Improved tests support the social heuristics hypothesis (2018)
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Understanding human cooperation is a major scientific challenge. While cooperation is typically explained with reference to individual preferences, a recent cognitive process view hypothesized that cooperation is regulated by socially acquired heuris... Read More about Is intuition really cooperative? Improved tests support the social heuristics hypothesis.

Consumption experience, choice experience and the endowment effect (2017)
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We report experiments investigating how experience influences the endowment effect. Our experiments feature endowments which are bundles of unfamiliar consumption goods. We examine how a subject’s willingness to swap items from their endowment is inf... Read More about Consumption experience, choice experience and the endowment effect.

How do risk attitudes affect measured confidence? (2016)
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We examine the relationship between confidence in own absolute performance and risk attitudes using two confidence elicitation procedures: self-reported (non-incentivised) confidence and an incentivised procedure that elicits the certainty equivalent... Read More about How do risk attitudes affect measured confidence?.

Measuring the closeness of relationships: a comprehensive evaluation of the 'Inclusion of the Other in the Self' scale (2015)
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Understanding the nature and influence of social relationships is of increasing interest to behavioral economists, and behavioral scientists more generally. In turn, this creates a need for tractable, and reliable, tools for measuring fundamental asp... Read More about Measuring the closeness of relationships: a comprehensive evaluation of the 'Inclusion of the Other in the Self' scale.

On preference imprecision (2015)
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Recent research invokes preference imprecision to explain violations of individual decision theory. While these inquiries are suggestive, the nature and significance of such imprecision remain poorly understood. We explore three questions using a new... Read More about On preference imprecision.

Does consultation improve decision-making? (2014)
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This paper reports an experiment designed to test whether prior consultation within a group affects subsequent individual decision-making in tasks where demonstrability of correct solutions is low. In our experiment, subjects considered two paintings... Read More about Does consultation improve decision-making?.

Incentives, expertise, and medical decisions: Testing the robustness of natural frequency framing (2013)
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