Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in
the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory …

Some of the most important issues in society today affect more than one generation of
people. In this article, the authors offer a conceptual overview and integration of the research …

We propose a technique for assessing robustness to demand effects of findings from
experiments and surveys. The core idea is that by deliberately inducing demand in a …

Awe is an emotional response to perceptually vast stimuli that transcend current frames of
reference. Guided by conceptual analyses of awe as a collective emotion, across 5 studies …

We leverage a large-scale incentivized survey eliciting behaviors from (almost) an entire
undergraduate university student population, a representative sample of the US population …

Over the last 25 years, more than a hundred dictator game experiments have been
published. This meta study summarises the evidence. Exploiting the fact that most …

We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both
traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their …

Self-determination theory posits that the degree to which a prosocial act is volitional or
autonomous predicts its effect on well-being and that psychological need satisfaction …

Game theory, the formalized study of strategy, began in the 1940s by asking how
emotionless geniuses should play games, but ignored until recently how average people …

We demonstrate that a simple model, constructed on the premise that people are motivated
by both their pecuniary payoff and their relative payoff standing, organizes a large and …