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Simon Gaechter

Professor of Psychology of Economic Decision Making, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Biography

Simon joined the 糖心原创 in February 2005. He is Professor of the Psychology of Economic Decision Making. He received his doctorate in Economics in Vienna. Before coming to Nottingham he worked at the Universities of Vienna, Linz, Zurich, and St. Gallen. He is also affiliated with the network (Munich), and the Institute for the 糖心原创 of Labour ( Bonn).

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(2012 - 2017)

European Research Council Advanced Grant 101020453 PRINCIPLES (2021 - 2026)

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Research Summary

Simon's research interests are in the area of behavioural and experimental economics, organisational economics, labour economics, and game theory. His main research tools are experiments. Currently,… read more

Selected Publications

  • CORGNET, BRICE, HERN脕N-GONZ脕LEZ, ROBERTO, SAYRE, GORDON M. and GAECHTER, SIMON, 2025. Journal of Applied Psychology.
  • BICCHIERI, CRISTINA, GAECHTER, SIMON, MOLLEMAN, LUCAS and NOSENZO, DANIELE, 2025. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 239, 107264
  • GAECHTER, SIMON, MOLLEMAN, LUCAS and NOSENZO, DANIELE, 2025. Nature Human Behaviour. 9(7), 1342-1354
  • GAECHTER, SIMON, STARMER, CHRIS and TUFANO, 2025. Review of Economics and Statistics. 107(2), 539-554

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"No Rest for the Weary: Pay Uncertainty Reduces Engagement in Recovery", , 2025 (with Brice Corgnet, Roberto Hern谩n-Gonz谩lez and Gordon Sayre) []

"Group identity and peer effects in rule-following", 239, November 2025, 107264 (with Cristina Bicchieri, Lucas Molleman and Daniele Nosenzo) []

"Why people follow rules". 9, July 2025, 1342-1354 (with Lucas Molleman and Daniele Nosenzo) [] [ An interdisciplinary explanation of rule-following in the absence or presence of incentives, Nature Human Behaviour June 2025]

"Measuring "group cohesion" to reveal the power of social relationships in team production, 107(2), March 2025, 539-554 (with Chris Starmer and Fabio Tufano), []

"The Contractual Dispute Resolution Game: Real-Effort Experiments on Contract Negotiation and Arbitration", 231, March 2025, 106902 (with Brice Corgnet and Roberto Hern谩n-Gonz谩lez). []

"Incentives crowd out voluntary cooperation: evidence from gift-exchange experiments". January 2025. 28(1), 75-106 with Esther Kaiser and Manfred K枚nigstein). []

"Wherefore art thou competitors? How situational affordances help differentiate among prosocials, individualists, and competitors", , 2024 (with Yi Liu, Paul van Lange and 52 others). []

"Social preferences and the variability of conditional cooperation", 2024, (with Malte Baader, Kyeongtae Lee and Martin Sefton). []

"How to activate threat perceptions in behavior research: A simple technique for inducing health and resource scarcity threats". 55, December 2024, 8379-8395 (with Ozan Isler, Onurcan Yilmaz, and John A. Maule). [] []

"The role of payoff parameters for cooperation in the one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma". 166, July 2024, 104753 (with Kyeongtae Lee, Martin Sefton, and Till O. Weber). []

"Introducing IOS11 as an extended interactive version of the 'Inclusion of Other in the Self' scale to estimate relationship closeness. , 14, April 2024, 8901 (with Malte Baader, Chris Starmer, and Fabio Tufano). []

"The behavioral mechanisms of voluntary cooperation across culturally diverse societies: Evidence from the US, the UK, Morocco, and Turkey", n 215, November 2023, 134-152 (with Till O. Weber, Jonathan F. Schulz, Benjamin Beranek and Fatima Lambarraa-Lehnhardt). []

"Who Discriminates? Evidence From a Trust Game Experiment Across Three Societies", 97, August 2023, 102630 (with Swee-Hoon Chuah, Robert Hoffmann, and Jonathan Tan). []

"Preferences and perceptions in provision and maintenance public goods". 2022 (with Felix Koelle and Simone Quercia). []

"Social closeness can help, harm and be irrelevant in solving pure coordination", 216, July 2022, 110552 (with Chris Starmer, Christian Th枚ni, Fabio Tufano and Till Weber). []

"Conforming with Peers in Honesty and Cooperation." 195, March 2022, 75-86 (with Ozan Isler) [].

"Social proximity and the erosion of norm compliance." 132, March 2022, 59-72 (with Cristina Bicchieri, Eugen Dimant and Daniele Nosenzo). [].

"Individual-level loss aversion in riskless and risky choices". , August 2021 (with Eric J. Johnson and Andreas Herrmann) [].

"Social mindfulness and prosociality vary across the globe", , August 2021, 118 (35) e2023846118 (with Niels Van Doesum, Ryan O. Murphy, Marcello Gallucci, Paul Van Lange, and 60 further co-authors) [].

"Contextualised strong reciprocity explains selfless cooperation despite selfish intuitions and weak social heuristics", 11, July 2021, Article number: 13868 (with Ozan Isler, A. John Maule and Chris Starmer) [] [].

"People prefer coordinated punishment in cooperative interactions", 3, September 2019, 1145-1153 (with Lucas Molleman, Felix Koelle and Chris Starmer). [] [].

"Leaders as role models and 'belief managers' in social dilemmas", 154, October 2018, 321-334 (with Elke Renner). [] []

"Societal background influences social learning in cooperative decision making", Evolution and Human Behavior 39(5), September 2018, 547-555 (with Lucas Molleman), [], []

"Dispositional free rider do not free ride on punishment", 9, 19 June 2018, Article number: 2390 (with Till Weber and Ori Weisel). [] []

"Conducting interactive experiments online", 21(1), March 2018, 99-131 (with Antonio A. Arechar and Lucas Molleman) [] []

"Reciprocity and the tragedies of maintaining and providing the commons", 1(9), September 2017, 650-656 (with Felix Koelle and Simone Quercia). [] []

"Conditional Cooperation and betrayal aversion", 141, September 2017, 110-121 (with Robin Cubitt and Simone Quercia). []

"The importance of peers for compliance with norms of fair sharing" 97, August 2017, 72-86 (with Leonie Gerhards and Daniele Nosenzo) [] [] []

"Growth and inequality in public good provision", 150, June 2017, 1-13 (with Friederike Mengel, Elias Tsakas and Alexander Vostroknutov). [] []

"Combining "Real Effort" with Induced Effort Costs: The Ball-Catching Task", 19(4), December 2016, 687-712 (with Lingbo Huang and Martin Sefton) [] [] [] [].

"Religion, Discrimination and Trust across Three Cultures, 90, November 2016, 280-301 (with Swee-Hoon Chuah, Robert Hoffmann and Jonathan Tan). [] []

"Eye Movements in Strategic Choice", 29(2-3), April 2016, 137-156 (with Neil Stewart, Takao Noguchi and Timothy L. Mullett). []

"Intrinsic Honesty and the Prevalence of Rule Violations across Societies", 531, 24 March 2016, 496-499 (with Jonathan Schulz) [] [] []. []

"Measuring the Closeness of Relationships: A Comprehensive Evaluation of the 'Inclusion of the Other in the Self' Scale". 10(6), June 2015, e0129478 (with Chris Starmer and Fabio Tufano) []

"Peer Effects and Social Preferences in Voluntary Cooperation: A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis", 48, June 2015, 72-88 (with Christian Th枚ni) [] []

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WORKING PAPERS

Using the Strategy Method and Elicited Beliefs to Explain Group Size and MPCR Effects in Public Good Experiments, , November 2023 (with Diego Marino Fages).

Current Research

Simon's research interests are in the area of behavioural and experimental economics, organisational economics, labour economics, and game theory. His main research tools are experiments. Currently, his main research interests are on voluntary cooperation in the presence of free rider incentives, and on the interplay of material and psychological incentives in incentive provision. He has published in American Economic Review, Econometrica, Science, Nature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Management Science, Nature Human Behaviour and Nature Communications. He held a 拢1.5m European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Investigator grant on the Behavioural Economics of Cooperation (2012-2017). He was recently awarded another ERC Advanced Grant on the Behavioural Principles of Large-Scale Cooperation (2021 - 2026).

  • LIU, YI, SIEVERS, ADAM W., VAN LANGE, PAUL, GAECHTER, SIMON and PLUS 51 FURTHER AUTHORS, 2026. European Journal of Personality. 40(1), 24-45
  • GAECHTER, SIMON, STARMER, CHRIS and TUFANO, 2025. Review of Economics and Statistics. 107(2), 539-554
  • CORGNET, BRICE, GAECHTER, SIMON and HERNAN-GONZALEZ, ROBEETO, 2025. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 231, 106902
  • GAECHTER, SIMON, KAISER, ESTHER and KOENIGSTEIN, MANFRED, 2025. Experimental Economics. 28(1), 75-106
  • GAECHTER, SIMON, MOLLEMAN, LUCAS and NOSENZO, DANIELE, 2025. Nature Human Behaviour. 9(7), 1342-1354
  • BICCHIERI, CRISTINA, GAECHTER, SIMON, MOLLEMAN, LUCAS and NOSENZO, DANIELE, 2025. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 239, 107264
  • CORGNET, BRICE, HERN脕N-GONZ脕LEZ, ROBERTO, SAYRE, GORDON M. and GAECHTER, SIMON, 2025. Journal of Applied Psychology.
  • BAADER, MALTE, STARMER, CHRIS, TUFANO, FABIO and GAECHTER, SIMON, 2024. Scientific Reports. 14, 8901
  • GAECHTER, SIMON, LEE, KYEONGTAE, SEFTON, MARTIN and WEBER, TILL O., 2024. European Economic Review. 166, 104753
  • ISLER, OZAN, YILMAZ, ONURCAN, JOHN A. MAULE and GAECHTER, SIMON, 2024. Behavior Research Methods. 56, 8379鈥�8395
  • BALAFOUTAS, LOUKAS, DIMANT, EUGEN, GAECHTER, SIMON and KRUPKA, ERIN, 2024. European Economic Review. 104885
  • BAADER, MALTE, GAECHTER, SIMON, LEE, KYEONGTAE and SEFTON, MARTIN, 2024. Economic Theory.
  • CHUAH, SWEE-HOON, GAECHTER, SIMON, HOFFMANN, ROBERT and TAN, JONATHAN, 2023. Journal of Economic Psychology. 97, 102630
  • WEBER, TILL O., SCHULZ, JONATHAN F., BERANEK, BENJAMIN, LAMBARRAA-LEHNHARDT, FATIMA and GAECHTER, SIMON, 2023. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 215, 134-152
  • GAECHTER, SIMON, JOHNSON, ERIC J. and HERRMANN, ANDREAS, 2022. Theory and Decision. 92, 599鈥�624
  • BICCHIERI, CRISTINA, DIMANT, EUGEN, GAECHTER, SIMON and NOSENZO, DANIELE, 2022. Games and Economic Behavior. 132, 59-72
  • ISLER, OZAN and GAECHTER, SIMON, 2022. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 195, 75-86
  • GAECHTER, SIMON, STARMER, CHRIS, THOENI, CHRISTIAN, TUFANO, FABIO and WEBER, TILL, 2022. Economics Letters. 216(July), 110552
  • GAECHTER, SIMON, KOELLE, FELIX and QUERCIA, SIMONE, 2022. Games and Economic Behavior. 135, 338-355
  • ISLER, O, GAECHTER, S, MAULE, J and STARMER, CHRIS, 2021. Scientific Reports. 11, 13868
  • VAN DOESUM, NIELS, MURPHY, RYAN O., GALLUCCI, MARCELO, VAN LANGE, PAUL and GAECHTER, SIMON AND 60 MORE COAUTHORS, 2021. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(35), e2023846118
  • MRKVA, KELLEN, JOHNSON, ERIC J., GAECHTER, SIMON and HERRMANN, ANDREAS, 2020. Journal of Consumer Psychology. 30, 407-428
  • CORGNET, BRICE, GAECHTER, SIMON and HERN脕N GONZ脕LEZ, ROBERTO, 2020. . In: ZIMMERMANN, KLAUS, ed., Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics Springer.
  • GIAMATTEI, MARCUS, YAHOSSEINI, KYANOUSH SEYED, GAECHTER, SIMON and MOLLEMAN, LUCAS, 2020. Journal of the Economic Science Association. 6(1), 95-111
  • MOLLEMAN, L, K脰LLE, F, STARMER, C and G脛CHTER, S, 2019. Nature Human Behaviour. 3, 1145鈥�1153
  • ARECHAR, ANTONIO A., GAECHTER, SIMON and MOLLEMAN, LUCAS, 2018. Experimental Economics. 21(1), 99鈥�131
  • GAECHTER, SIMON, HUANG, LINGBO and SEFTON, MARTIN, 2018. Economic Inquiry. 56(3), 1512-1525
  • MOLLEMAN, LUCAS and GAECHTER, SIMON, 2018. Evolution and Human Behavior. 39(5), 547-555
  • WEBER, TILL, WEISEL, ORI and GAECHTER, SIMON, 2018. Nature Communications. 9, 2390
  • GAECHTER, SIMON and RENNER, ELKE, 2018. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 154, 321-334
  • GAECHTER, SIMON, MENGEL, FRIEDRIKE, TSAKAS, ELIAS and VOSTROKNUTOV, 2017. Journal of Public Economics. 150, 1-13
  • GAECHTER, SIMON, 2017. Nature. 545, 297-298
  • GAECHTER, SIMON, GERHARDS, LEONIE and NOSENZO, DANIELE, 2017. European Economic Review. 97, 72-86
  • CUBITT, ROBIN, GAECHTER, SIMON and QUERCIA, SIMONE, 2017. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 141, 110-121
  • GAECHTER, SIMON, KOELLE, FELIX and QUERCIA, SIMONE, 2017. Nature Human Behaviour. 1(9), 650-656
  • SIMON GAECHTER, LINGBO HUANG and MARTIN SEFTON, 2016. Experimental Economics. 19(4), 687-712
  • NEIL STEWART, SIMON GAECHTER, TAKAO NOGUCHI and TIMOTHY L. MULLETT, 2016. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 29(2-3), 137-156
  • CHUAH, S, GAECHTER, S, HOFFMANN, R and TAN, J, 2016. European Economic Review. 90, 280-301
  • SIMON GAECHTER and JONATHAN SCHULZ, 2016. Nature. 531(7595), 496-499
  • CHRISTIAN THOENI and SIMON GAECHTER, 2015. Journal of Economic Psychology. 48, 72-88
  • BENJAMIN BERANEK, ROBIN CUBITT and SIMON GAECHTER, 2015. Journal of the Economic Science Association. 1(1), 43-58
  • SIMON GAECHTER, CHRIS STARMER and FABIO TUFANO, 2015. PLoS One. 10(6), e0129478
  • SIMON GAECHTER, 2015. Nature. 526, 333-334
  • SIMON GAECHTER, 2014. Human pro-social motivation and the maintenance of social order. In: EYAL ZAMIR and DORON TEICHMAN, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law Oxford University Press. 28-60
  • FALK, ARMIN, FISCHBACHER URS, GAECHTER SIMON, 2013. Economic Inquiry. 51(1), 563鈥�578
  • G脛CHTER, S., NOSENZO, D. and SEFTON, M., 2013. Journal of the European Economic Association. 11(3), 548鈥�573
  • GAECHTER, S, NOSENZO, D, RENNER, E. and SEFTON, M., 2012. Economic Inquiry. 50(4), 867鈥�879
  • GAECHTER, SIMON, NOSENZO, DANIELE and SEFTON, MARTIN, 2012. Scandinavian Journal of Economics. 114(4), 1346-1367
  • SIMON GAECHTER, 2012. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 35(1), 26-28
  • SIMON GAECHTER, 2012. Nature. 483, 39-40
  • URS FISCHBACHER, SIMON GAECHTER and SIMONE QUERCIA, 2012. Journal of Economic Psychology. 33(4), 897-913
  • SIMON GAECHTER, 2012. Nature. 489, 374-375
  • CUBITT, R. P., DROUVELIS, M. and G脛CHTER, S., 2011. Experimental Economics. 14(2), 254-272
  • CUBITT, R.P., DROUVELIS, M., G脛CHTER, S. and KABALIN, R., 2011. Journal of Public Economics. 95(3-4), 253-264
  • G脛CHTER, S. and HERRMANN, B., 2011. European Economic Review. 55(2), 193-210
  • DUFWENBERG, M., G脛CHTER, S. and HENNIG-SCHMIDT, H., 2011. Games and Economic Behavior. 73(2), 459-478
  • GAECHTER , SIMON and THOENI, CHRISTIAN, 2011. Journal of Mathematical Sociology. 35(1), 26-65
  • GAECHTER, S, NOSENZO, D, RENNER, E. and SEFTON, M., 2010. Journal of Public Economics. 94, 515-522
  • G脛CHTER, S. and TH脰NI, C., 2010. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 76(3), 531-543
  • CROSON, RACHEL and GAECHTER, SIMON, 2010. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 73(1), 122-131
  • GAECHTER, SIMON, 2010. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 33(2-3), 92-93
  • GAECHTER. SIMON, HERRMANN, BENEDIKT and THOENI, CHRISTIAN, 2010. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 鈥� Biological Sciences. 365(1553), 2651-2661
  • GAECHTER, SIMON and RENNER, ELKE, 2010. Experimental Economics. 13(3), 364-377
  • FISCHBACHER, U. and GAECHTER, S., 2010. American Economic Review. 100(1), 541-556
  • GAECHTER, SIMON, HAEFLIGER , STEFAN and GEORG VON KROGH, 2010. Research Policy. 39(7), 893-906
  • G脛CHTER, S., ORZEN, H., RENNER, E. and STARMER, C., 2009. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 70(3), 443-446
  • GAECHTER, SIMON, 2009. Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik. 10, 1-13
  • GAECHTER, SIMON and HERRMANN, BENEDIKT, 2009. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences. 364, 791-806
  • GAECHTER, SIMON and KOENIGSTEIN, MANFRED, 2009. Journal of Economic Education. 40(2), 173-187
  • G脛CHTER, S., RENNER, E. and SEFTON, M., 2008. Science. 322(5907), 1510
  • HERRMANN, B., TH脰NI, C. and G脛CHTER, S., 2008. Science. 319(5868), 1362-1367
  • GAECHTER, SIMON and RIEDL, ARNO, 2006. Social Choice and Welfare. 27(3), 571-594
  • G脛CHTER, S. and TH脰NI, C., 2005. Journal of the European Economic Association. 3(2-3), 303-314
  • GAECHTER, SIMON, HERRMANN, BENEDIKT and THOENI, CHRISTIAN., 2005. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 28(6), 822
  • G脛CHTER, S. and RIEDL, A., 2005. Management Science. 51(2), 249-263
  • G脛CHTER, S., HERRMANN, B. and TH脰NI, C., 2004. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 55(4), 505-531
  • FEHR, E. and G脛CHTER, S., 2002. Nature. 415(6868), 137-140
  • FALK, ARMIN and GAECHTER, SIMON, 2002. Scandinavian Journal of Economics. 104, 1-27
  • ANDERHUB, VITAL., KOENIGSTEIN, MANFRED and GAECHTER, SIMON, 2002. Experimental Economics. 5, 5-25
  • FEHR, ERNST, FISCHBACHER, URS and GAECHTER, SIMON, 2002. Human Nature. 13, 1-25
  • FEHR, E., FISCHBACHER, U. and G脛CHTER, S., 2001. Economics Letters. 71(3), 397-404
  • FALKINGER, JOSEF, FEHR, ERNST, GAECHTER, SIMON and WINTER-EBMER, RUDOLF, 2000. American Economic Review. 90, 247-264
  • FEHR, ERNST and GAECHTER, SIMON, 2000. American Economic Review. 90, 341-369
  • FEHR, ERNST and GAECHTER, SIMON, 2000. Journal of Economic Perspectives. 14, 159-181
  • FEHR, ERNST and GAECHTER, SIMON, 1999. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 39, 341-369
  • FALK, ARMIN, GAECHTER, SIMON and KOVACS, JUDIT, 1999. Journal of Economic Psychology. 251-284
  • FEHR, ERNST and GAECHTER, SIMON, 1998. European Economic Review. 42, 845-859
  • FEHR, ERNST, KIRCHLER, ERICH, WEICHBOLD, ANDREAS and GAECHTER, SIMON, 1998. Journal of Labor Economics. 16, 324-351
  • FEHR, ERNST, GAECHTER, SIMON and KIRCHSTEIGER, GEORG, 1997. Econometrica. 65(4), 833-860
  • FEHR, ERNST, GAECHTER, SIMON and KIRCHSTEIGER, GEORG, 1996. Reciprocal Fairness and Noncompensating Wage Differentials Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics. 152(4), 608-640

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