Using behavioural science to help fight the coronavirus

P Lunn, C Belton, C Lavin, F McGowan, S Timmons… - 2020 - econstor.eu
This paper summarises useful evidence from behavioural science for fighting the COVID-19
outbreak. It is based on an extensive literature search of relevant behavioural interventions …

Digital contact-tracing adoption in the COVID-19 pandemic: IT governance for collective action at the societal level

K Riemer, R Ciriello, S Peter… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a need for rapid, population-wide digital contact
tracing. One solution, Bluetooth-enabled digital proximity tracing using smartphones …

[HTML][HTML] Leaders as role models and 'belief managers' in social dilemmas

S Gächter, E Renner - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018 - Elsevier
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior in social
dilemmas. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in …

[HTML][HTML] Social norm dynamics and cooperation in changing groups

K Otten, V Buskens, W Przepiorka… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Social norms promote cooperation in human groups. How are these norms and cooperation
affected when groups change due to new members arriving and old members leaving? In …

A Pearson correlation-based adaptive variable grouping method for large-scale multi-objective optimization

M Zhang, W Li, L Zhang, H Jin, Y Mu, L Wang - Information Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Dividing variables into groups is an intuitive idea for tackling large-scale multi-objective
problems. However, regular grouping methods often suffer from the computationally …

Payoff-based learning best explains the rate of decline in cooperation across 237 public-goods games

MN Burton-Chellew, SA West - Nature human behaviour, 2021 - nature.com
What motivates human behaviour in social dilemmas? The results of public goods games
are commonly interpreted as showing that humans are altruistically motivated to benefit …

People prefer coordinated punishment in cooperative interactions

L Molleman, F Kölle, C Starmer, S Gächter - Nature Human Behaviour, 2019 - nature.com
Human groups can often maintain high levels of cooperation despite the threat of
exploitation by individuals who reap the benefits of cooperation without contributing to its …

Strategic behavior with tight, loose, and polarized norms

E Dimant, M Gelfand, A Hochleitner… - Management …, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Descriptive norms, the behavior of other individuals in one's reference group, play a key role
in shaping individual decisions in managerial contexts and beyond. Organizations are …

The stability of conditional cooperation: beliefs alone cannot explain the decline of cooperation in social dilemmas

L Andreozzi, M Ploner, AS Saral - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
An often-replicated result in the experimental literature on social dilemmas is that a large
share of subjects choose conditionally cooperative strategies. Cooperation generated by …

The influence of empirical and normative expectations on cooperation

F Kölle, S Quercia - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we investigate the importance of empirical and normative expectations for
cooperative behavior. We conduct two experimental studies (n= 243) in which we separately …