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Evolving General Cooperation with a Bayesian Theory of Mind

Max Kleiman-Weiner, Alejandro Vientos, David G. Rand and Joshua Tenenbaum (In press). PNAS.

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PostedJuly 21, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsCooperation, In press, AI, Computational Models

Reasoning about climate change

Bence Bago, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2023). PNAS Nexus. 2(5). https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad100

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PostedJanuary 9, 2023
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsCooperation, Politics, Intuition, 2023, `Review articles

Unselfish traits and social decision-making patterns characterize six populations of real-world extraordinary altruists

Shawn A Rhoads, Kruti Vekaria, Katherine O’Connell, Hannah S Elizabeth, David G. Rand, Megan Kozak Williams, Abigail Marsh (2023). Nature Communications. 14, 1807. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37283-5

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PostedJanuary 6, 2023
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsCooperation, 2023

Learning to be selfish? A large-scale longitudinal analysis of Dictator games played on Amazon Mechanical Turk

Antonio A. Arechar, and David G. Rand (2022). Journal of Economic Psychology. 90, 102490. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2022.102490

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PostedNovember 1, 2022
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2022, Cooperation

Encouraging the resumption of economic activity after COVID-19: Evidence from a large scale-field experiment in China

Juan Palacios, Yichun Fan, Erez Yoeli, Jianghao Wang, Yuchen Chai, Weizeng Sun, David G. Rand, and Siqi Zheng (2022). PNAS. 119 (5) e2100719119; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2100719119

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PostedNovember 1, 2022
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2022, Field experiments, Cooperation

Human Cooperation and the Crises of Climate Change, COVID-19, and Misinformation

Paul A.M. Van Lange, and David G. Rand (2022). Annual Review of Psychology. 73. p. 379-402. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-020821-110044.

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PostedNovember 1, 2022
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2022, Cooperation, Misinformation, `Review articles

Don’t get it or don’t spread it: comparing self-interested versus prosocial motivations for COVID-19 prevention behaviors

Jillian J. Jordan, Erez Yoeli, and David G. Rand (2021). Scientific Reports. 11: 20222.

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PostedApril 26, 2021
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2021, Cooperation

Practice What You Preach: Credibility-Enhancing Displays and the Growth of Open Science

Gordon Kraft-Todd and David G. Rand (2021). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 164, p. 1-10.

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PostedApril 11, 2021
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2021, Cooperation

Framing effects in the prisoner’s dilemma but not in the dictator game

Sebastian J. Goerg, David G. Rand, and Gari Walkowitz (2019). Journal of the Economic Science Association. 6. p. 1-12. doi:10.1007/s40881-019-00081-1.

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PostedFebruary 11, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsCooperation, 2020

Prosociality in the economic Dictator Game is associated with less parochialism and greater willingness to vote for intergroup compromise

Mohsen Mosleh, Alexander J. Stewart, Joshua B. Plotkin, and David G. Rand (2020). Judgement and Decision Making. 15(1). pp. 1-6.

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PostedJanuary 28, 2020
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsCooperation, 2020, Intergroup, Social networks

Are those who believe in God really more prosocial?

Michael N. Stagnaro, Antonio A. Arechar, and David G. Rand (2019). Religion, Brain & Behavior. doi:10.1080/2153599X.2019.1695656.

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PostedDecember 16, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsReligion, Cooperation, 2019, Intuition

The role of inequity aversion in microloan defaults

Matthew R. Jordan, Willian T. Dickens, Oliver P. Hauser, and David G. Rand (2019). Behavioural Public Policy. doi:10.1017/bpp.2019.29.

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PostedDecember 9, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2019, Cooperation, Punishment

Community Violence and Prosociality: Experiencing and Committing Violence Predicts Norm-Enforcing Punishment but Not Cooperation

Rebecca Littman, Suzanne Estrada, Michael N. Stagnaro, Yarrow Dunham, David Rand, and Arielle Baskin-Sommers (2019). Social Psychological and Personality Science. doi:10.1177/1948550619849431.

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PostedNovember 8, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsPunishment, Cooperation, 2019

Digital Health Support in Treatment for Tuberculosis

Erez Yoeli, Jon Rathauser, Syon Bhanot, Maureen Kimenye, Eunice Mailu, Enos Masini, Philip Owiti, and David G. Rand (2019) New England Journal of Medicine. doi:10.1056/NEJMc1806550

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PostedSeptember 26, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsCooperation, Field experiments, Reputation, 2019

A field experiment on community policing and police legitimacy

Kyle Peyton, Michael Sierra-Arévalo, and David G. Rand (2019). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi:10.1073/pnas.1910157116

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PostedSeptember 26, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsCooperation, Field experiments, Intergroup, 2019

Information gerrymandering and undemocratic decisions

Alexander J. Stewart, Mohsen Mosleh, Marina Diakonova, Antonio A. Arechar, David G. Rand, and Joshua B. Plotkin (2019). Nature 573, 117–121 . doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1507-6

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PostedSeptember 26, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsCooperation, Politics, Social networks, 2019, Misinformation, Computational Models

Intuitive Honesty Versus Dishonesty: Meta-Analytic Evidence

Nils C. Köbis, Bruno Verschuere, Yoella Bereby-Meyer, David Rand, and Shaul Shalvi (2019). Perspectives on Psychological Science. doi: 10.1177/1745691619851778.

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PostedJuly 19, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsCooperation, Intuition, 2019

From Foe to Friend and Back Again: The Temporal Dynamics of Intra-Party Bias in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

Yarrow Dunham, Antonio A. Arechar, and David G. Rand (2019). Judgment and Decision Making, 14(3), 373–380.

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PostedJune 4, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsCooperation, Intergroup, Politics, 2019

Intuition, Deliberation, and Cooperation: Further Meta-Analytic Evidence from 91 Experiments on Pure Cooperation

David G. Rand (2019). Social Science Research Network.

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PostedMay 21, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsIntuition, Cooperation

Turkers of the World Unite: Multilevel In-Group Bias Amongst Crowdworkers on Amazon Mechanical Turk

Abdullah Almaatouq, Peter Krafft, Yarrow Dunham, David G. Rand, and Alex Pentland (2019). Social Psychological and Personality Science. 1-9

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PostedApril 22, 2019
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsMechanical turk, Cooperation, Intergroup, 2019
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