Science 02 October 2015: Vol. 350 no. 6260 pp. 512-513 (with G. Charness)

Science 25 September 2015: Vol. 349 no. 6255 pp. 1446-1447 advanced online publicatioin doi: 10.1126/science.aaa7978 (with C. Efferson, S. Vogt, A. Elhadi, and H. El Fadil Ahmed)

Nature 2014, advanced online publication doi:10.1038/nature13977 (with A. Cohn and M. Maréchal)

Related article on profesional identity: Professional identity can increase dishonesty, Nature 2014, advanced online publication doe:10.1038/nature14068 (by Marie Claire Villeval)

Journal of the European Economic Association 12(4), 2014, 877-898 (with A. Cohn, B. Herrmann, and F. Schneider)

Use and Abuse of Authority: A Behavioral Foundation of the Employment Relation

• The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power (PDF, 1.43 MB) American Economic Review 103(4), 2013, 1325-1359 (with H. Herz and T. Wilkening)

Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Advanced online publication, doi:10.1038/nrn3776, 2014 (with C.C. Ruff)

Science 342, 482-484, 2013 (with C.C. Ruff and G. Ugazio)

• Neuron 75, 2012, 73-79 (with Y. Morishima, D. Schunk, A. Bruhin, and C.C. Ruff

Press releases

• Nature Neuroscience, advanced online publication doi:10.1038/nn.2933 (with T. Baumgartner, D. Knoch, P. Hotz, and C. Eisenegger)

• Trends in Cognitive Sciences 15(6), 2011, 263-271 (with C. Eisenegger and J. Haushofer)
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• The Mentalizing Network Orchestrates the Impact of Parochial Altruism on Social Norm Enforcement (PDF, 2.19 MB)

  Human Brain Mapping 33(6), 2012, 1452-1469 (with T. Baumgartner, L. Götte, and R. Gügler)

• Can we see inside? Predicting strategic behavior given limited information (PDF, 470 KB)Evolution and Human Behavior 34, 2013, 258-264 (with C. Efferson and S. Vogt)

Wrath of God: religious primes and punishment

• Wrath of God: religious primes and punishment (PDF, 378 KB)Forthcoming in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, advanced online publication doi:10.1098/rsbp.2021.2125 (with R. McKay, C. Efferson, and H. Whitehouse)

Eyes are on us, but nobody cares: are eye cues relevant for strong reciprocity?

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Other-regarding preferences in a non-human primate: Common marmosets provision food altruistically

• Other-regarding preferences in a non-human primate: Common marmosets provision food altruistically (PDF, 454 KB)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(50), 11 December 2007, 19762-19766 (with J. Burkart, C. Efferson, and C. van Schaik)

Parochial altruism in humans

• Parochial altruism in humans (PDF, 196 KB)Nature 422, 24 August 2006, 912-915 (with H. Bernhard and U. Fischbacher)

Edited by Paul W. Glimcher and Ernst Fehr

Neuroeconomics is a young, interdisciplinary field dealing with the neurobiology of decision making and how it affects cognitive social interactions between humans and societies/economies. It studies how economic behavior can shape our understanding of the brain, and how neuroscientific discoveries can constrain and guide models of economics. Neuroeconomics studies decision making by using a combination of tools from neuroscience, economics and psychology to avoid the shortcoming that arise from a single perspective approach.

Offering the necessary interdisciplinary approach, Neuroeconomics second edition presents research from neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics. Edited by two of the founders of the field, this edition once again offers a current and comprehensive review of the field. With chapters authored by all the major figures, this new edition will serve to advance understanding of the following as related to the human brain through neoclassical economic approaches, behavioral economics, social decision making, valuation, and neural mechanism for choice.

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Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain

by Paul W. Glimcher, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, and Russell Poldrack. Academic Press, 2008

Neuroeconomics is a new promising approach to understanding the neurobiology of decision making and how it affects social interactions between humans. This book is the first edited reference on the science behind neuroeconomics. Offering a truly interdisciplinary approach, "Neuroeconomics" presents research from neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics, and includes chapters by the major figures in the field. Carefully edited for a cohesive presentation of the material, the book is also very useful as a textbook for the many newly emerging graduate courses on Neuroeconomics in Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics schools. Editors and contributing authors represent the acknowledged experts and founders of the field of Neuroeconomics and include Nobel laureates Vernon Smith and Daniel Kahneman.

This book received the Award for Excellence in Social Sciences and was the winner in the Economics category.

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Moral Sentiments and Material Interests : The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life (Economic Learning and Social Evolution)

by Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert T. Boyd, Ernst Fehr

Moral Sentiments and Material Interests presents an innovative synthesis of research in different disciplines to argue that cooperation stems not from the stereotypical selfish agent acting out of disguised self-interest but from the presence of "strong reciprocators" in a social group. The book presents the evidence in favor of strong reciprocity among humans, provides a thorough analysis of cooperation in nonhuman primates and discusses the motivational and evolutionary origins of strong reciprocity. In addition, Moral Sentiments and Material Interests derives the implications of strong reciprocity for the functioning of markets and other political and economic institutions, including the political legitimacy of different social policies.

Foundations of Human Sociality

What motives underlie the ways humans interact socially? Are these the same for all societies? Are these part of our nature, or influenced by our environments?

Over the last decade, research in experimental economics has emphatically falsified the textbook representation of Homo economicus. Literally hundreds of experiments suggest that people care not only about their own material payoffs, but also about such things as fairness, equity and reciprocity. However, this research left fundamental questions unanswered: Are such social preferences stable components of human nature; or, are they modulated by economic, social and cultural environments?

Related Work

• Strong Reciprocity, Human Cooperation and the Enforcement of Social Norms (PDF, 146 KB) Human Nature 13, (2002), 1-25 (with Fischbacher and Gächter).
• Strong Reciprocity may evolve with or without Group Selection (PDF, 146 KB) Comment in Theoretical Primatology (with Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis).
• Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation? - On the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Altruism (PDF, 146 KB) forthcoming in: P. Hammerstein (Ed.), The Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. (with J. Henrich)
• In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies (PDF, 146 KB) American Economic Review 91, (2001), 73-78 (with Henrich, Boyd, Bowles, Gintis, Camerer and McElreath).