When people choose what messages to send to others, they often consider how others will
interpret the messages. In many environments, particularly in politics, people are motivated …

Background Humans have been moving from rural to urban environments for decades. This
process may have important consequences for our health and well-being. Most previous …

We investigate how individuals select sources of information about peers' behavior and
normative views, and the influence of this social information on individual behavior and both …

People give more to a person in need when this person's identity is known. Such altruistic
behaviors may arise from a genuine concern for the person, leading people to give …

We investigate cheating in work groups, to empirically test the idea of an honest workplace
environment as a determinant of performance. Three individuals receive team-based …

We investigate whether individuals are more easily fooled by others when they enhance
their personal characteristics and abilities. We use an experiment in which participants …

We experimentally examine the effects of advice on decision making in a dictator game in
which participants receive no advice, selfish advice, or fair advice before making decisions …

Pro-social individuals typically face a trade-off between their monetary incentives and their
other-regarding preferences. When this is the case, they may be tempted to exploit the …

Information about the consequences of our consumption choices can be unwelcome, and
people sometimes avoid it. We investigate a situation where one person possesses …

Abstract “The selection of an agent precedes most principal-agent relationships, but the
consequences of this selection process remain largely unstudied. Across three …