Attitudes have been a central topic in social psychology from its early beginnings. But what
exactly are attitudes, where do they come from, and how can they be modified? The overall …

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Humans vary substantially in their willingness to take risks. In a combined sample of over 1
million individuals, we conducted genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of general risk …

INTRODUCTION Understanding determinants of gender differences in economic and social
domains has been of interest, both in academic and public debates. Previous research has …

This study presents evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of
prosociality. We show that socioeconomic status (SES) as well as intensity of mother-child …

We investigate the relationship between violence and economic risk preferences in
Afghanistan combining:(i) a two-part experimental procedure identifying risk preferences …

We show that current differences in trust levels within Africa can be traced back to the
transatlantic and Indian Ocean slave trades. Combining contemporary individual-level …

We explore the origins of the intergenerational association in entrepreneurship using
Swedish adoption data that allow us to quantify the relative importance of prebirth and …

Understanding human cooperation is of major interest across the natural and social
sciences. But it is unclear to what extent cooperation is actually a general concept. Most …

Household finance—the normative and positive study of how households use financial
markets to achieve their objectives—has gained a lot of attention over the past decade and …