Theme 3 - Cultural and Societal Background
Third, we use cross-cultural experiments to study the role of cultural influences on strong reciprocity and how culture interacts with incentive structures: when does culture matter for cooperation?
Publications:
- Till O. Weber, Jonathan F. Schulz, Benjamin Beranek, Fatima Lambarraa-Lehnhardt and Simon Gächter (November 2023). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 215, 134-152. []
- Van Doesum, N. J., Murphy, R.O., Gallucci, M., Van Lange Paul + 60 co-authors, including Gaechter, S. (2021). . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118, e2023846118 [].
- Molleman, Lucas and Simon Gächter, (September 2018). Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(5), 547-555. [], []
- Chuah, Swee Hoon, Simon Gächter, Robert Hoffmann, and Jonathan H.W. Tan (November 2016). European Economic Review, 90, 280-301. []
- Gächter, Simon and Jonathan F. Schulz (March 2016). . Nature, 496-499. [] [] []
- Beranek, Benjamin, Robin Cubitt, and Simon Gächter (July 2015). . Journal of the Economic Science Association, 1(1) 43-58. []
Works in Progress:
- Gächter, Simon, Jonathan Schulz and Christian Thöni, “The Complementarity of Good Institutions and Voluntary Cooperation: Experimental Evidence from 43 Societies”
- Funaki, Yukihiko, Simon Gächter, Masao Ogaki, Fumio Ohtake, and Robert Veszteg "Detrimental Effects of Peer Punishment in Japan."
- Beranek, Benjamin, Simon Gächter, and Lucas Molleman "Culture of Honor Revisited: Examining Punishment Behavior of US Southerners in Social Dilemmas"
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