Social norms for cooperation under collective risk

How could people be individually motivated to cooperate to reduce the risk of a collective loss?

"We live in an unpredictable time, the leading experts in artifical intelligence tell us. They have no answers and ordinary citizens are not even capable of asking the pertinent questions. We traveled

A new theory about the relation between cognitive ability and moral opinions

Why is it that people with higher cognitive ability tend to have more liberal opinions on moral issues? This project will try to offer an explanation.

Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 206, 2022. Abstract We experimentally test theoretical predictions on equilibrium selection in a two-player coordination (investment) game. Through a minimal visual vari

The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution, red. Jamshid J. Tehrani et al. Abstract Many cultural phenomena cannot be understood by studying traits in isolation. Instead, they are embedded in webs of rel

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 0022022115605387. Abstract Cialdini has argued that whereas injunctive norms motivate behavior by their promise of social sanctions, descriptive norms motivate beha

This paper develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the interplay between the evolution of mankind and economic growth since the emergence of the human species. It argues that the transiti

This study examines labor supply responses to spousal sickness absence (SSA) using a Swedish longitudinal panel data, from 1996-2002. The overall results show evidence of a decrease in labor supply in

Theoria Abstract The Consequence Argument is the classic argument for the incompatibility of determinism and our ability to do otherwise. Daniel C. Dennett objects that the Consequence Argument suffers

The British Journal of Sociology 2019, Volume 70, Issue 2 Abstract Research on privilege and education often focuses on institutions that are elite in a rather traditional way, for example schools that i