Local residents play an indispensable role in environmental conservation at tourist
destinations. To facilitate the sustainable development of tourism, it is of great significance to …

Descriptive norms, which measure the prevalence of prosocial behavior (prosocial
“contribution”, in our context), powerfully influence individual prosocial choice. We …

Social pressure has been successfully used to encourage prosocial behavior in a diverse
range of settings. Some backfiring results, however, have prompted a closer look at the …

In recent years several studies have investigated conspiracy beliefs employing correlational
designs which heavily relied on self-reported measures. While the limitations of surveys are …

Claiming that agents are rational during decision-making processes does not coincide with
the fact that they keep making the same mistakes or keep on believing in some theory, even …

Why do we care about what others think and believe? How does what happens in other
people's minds affect our well-being? When are we motivated to take actions, such as …

Making the right choice sometimes involves selecting the “lesser of two evils,” and only
seeing the chosen option can lead others to misunderstand the decision maker's intentions …

Making the right choice does not always lead to a good outcome—sometimes there are only
bad outcomes to choose from. Situations like this are likely to lead others to misunderstand …

This article presents new data on individual altruistic choices and beliefs in a two-player
sharing game, collected for the study reported in te Velde (2018)[2]. The decision maker in …