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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

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

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

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

Indirect Reciprocity and the Evolution of Prejudicial Groups

Roger M.Whitaker, Gualtiero B. Colombo, and David G. Rand (2018). Scientific Reports. 8:13247.

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PostedSeptember 28, 2018
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2018, Cooperation, Intergroup, Social networks, Computational Models

Stability and fracture of social groups

Soheil Eshghi, Grace-Rose Williams, Gualtiero B. Colombo, Liam D. Turner, David G. Rand, Roger M. Whitaker, and Leandros Tassiulas (2017) Proceedings of the 55th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing

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PostedSeptember 5, 2017
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2017, Intergroup, Computational Models

Profit versus prejudice: Harnessing self-interest to mitigate ingroup bias

Michael N. Stagnaro, Yarrow Dunham, and David G. Rand (2017). Social Psychology and Personality Science.

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PostedJune 5, 2017
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsCooperation, Intergroup, 2017

No unique effect of intergroup competition on cooperation: Non-competitive thresholds are as effective as competitions between groups for increasing human cooperative behavior

Matthew R. Jordan, Jillian J. Jordan, and David G. Rand (2017). Evolution & Human Behavior 38 102-108. [Data and code]

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PostedFebruary 7, 2017
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsCooperation, Intergroup, 2017

How Good is the Samaritan, and Why? An Experimental Investigation of the Extent and Nature of Religious Prosociality Using Economic Games

Jim Everett, Omar S. Haque, and David G. Rand (2016) Social Psychology and Personality Science. doi:10.1177/1948550616632577

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PostedJanuary 21, 2016
AuthorScienceSites
TagsCooperation, Religion, Intergroup, 2016

Cultural evolution need not imply group selection (commentary)

Dorsa Amir, Matthew R. Jordan, and David G. Rand (2016). Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 39, E32. doi:10.1017/S0140525X15000059

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PostedJanuary 14, 2016
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsIntergroup, 2016

Opposing Oxytocin Effects on Intergroup Cooperative Behavior in Intuitive and Reflective Minds

Yina Ma, Yi Liu, David Rand, Todd F Heatherton, and Shihui Han (2015) Neuropsychopharmacology. 1-9. 17. [Data]

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PostedApril 15, 2015
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2015, Cooperation, Intuition, Intergroup

Social Context and the Dynamics of Cooperative Choice

David G. Rand, George E. Newman, and Owen Wurzbacher (2015) Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 28: 159-166. [Data and code]

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PostedMarch 20, 2015
AuthorScienceSites
TagsCooperation, Intuition, Intergroup, 2015

The Emergence of “Us and Them” in 80 Lines of Code: Modeling Group Genesis in Homogeneous Populations

Kurt Gray*, David G. Rand*, Eyal Ert, Steve Hershman, and Michael I. Norton (2014). Psychological Science, 25, 982-990. [Demo and code]

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PostedFebruary 22, 2014
AuthorScienceSites
Categories2014, journal-article
Tags2014, Cooperation, Intergroup, Social networks, Computational Models

Religious Motivations for Cooperation: An Experimental Investigation Using Explicit Primes

David G. Rand, Anna Dreber, Omar S. Haque, Rob J. Kane, Martin A. Nowak, and Sarah Coakley (2014). Religion, Brain & Behavior.  4 31-48.

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PostedJanuary 31, 2014
AuthorScienceSites
Categoriesjournal-article, social-behaviors-beliefs
Tags2014, Cooperation, Intergroup, Religion

Evolution of In-Group Favoritism

Feng Fu, Corina E. Tarnita, Nicholas A. Christakis, Long Wang, David Rand, Martin A. Nowak (2012). Scientific Reports 2, 460

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PostedJuly 25, 2013
AuthorScienceSites
Categories2012, game-theory-systems-model, journal-article
Tags2012, Cooperation, Intergroup, Social networks, Computational Models

Dynamic Remodeling of In-Group Bias During the 2008 Presidential Election

David Rand, Thomas Pfeiffer, Anna Dreber, Rachel W. Sheketoff, Nils C. Wernerfelt, and Yochai Benkler (2009). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  106, 6187–6191. [Data]

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PostedJuly 25, 2013
AuthorScienceSites
Categories2009, social-behaviors-beliefs, journal-article
Tags2009, Cooperation, Intergroup, Politics

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Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI


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Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online


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Scaling up fact-checking using the wisdom of crowds


Jennifer Allen, Antonio A. Arechar, Gordon Pennycook, and David Rand (2021). Science Advances

Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality


Gordon Pennycook and David Rand (2019). PNAS

 

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