The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis
requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological burdens on …

One-shot anonymous unselfishness in economic games is commonly explained by social
preferences, which assume that people care about the monetary pay-offs of others …

People sometimes avoid information about the impact of their actions as an excuse to be
selfish. Such “willful ignorance” reduces altruistic behavior and has detrimental effects in …

This paper is the first to examine the role of the cultural dimension in practising social
distancing across the world. By drawing the data from the Google COVID-19 community …

The revolution in information availability and the advances in novel interaction technologies
have ushered in two major shifts that call into question the traditional assumptions of buyer …

Private information is at the heart of many economic activities. For decades, economists
have assumed that individuals are willing to misreport private information if this maximizes …

Social norms, usually persistent, can change quickly when new public information arrives,
such as a surprising election outcome. People may become more inclined to express views …

Civic honesty is essential to social capital and economic development but is often in conflict
with material self-interest. We examine the trade-off between honesty and self-interest using …

We study how cheating behavior is affected by incentives. After replicating the finding in the
cheating game literature that lying does not increase with incentives, we show that this …

The environmental (un) sustainability of the tourism industry has been debated for many
decades. This debate generated ample empirical evidence of the environmental damage …