Publications and Working Papers
Most recent publications in economics and other behavioral sciences
Most recent publications in neuroeconomics and social neuroscience
Most recent publications in Evolutionary Economics and Psychology
The Most Recent Books
Neuroeconomics and Social Neuroscience
Human Cooperation and Sociality
Psychological Foundations of Incentives
Fairness and Reciprocity
Behavioral Labor Economics
Bounded Rationality and Strategic Interaction
Bounded Rationality, Impatience and Intertemporal Choice
Popular papers and Presentations
Popular Papers and Presentations (Spanish version)
Most recent publications in economics and other behavioral sciences
 | The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power
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 | Acute Stress Increases Prosocial Behavior in Humans
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| Screening, Competition, and Job Design: Economic Origins of Good Jobs American Economic Review 102(2), 2012, 834-864 (with B. Bartling and K. M. Schmidt) |
 | Neuroeconomic Foundations of Economic Choice - Recent Advances Journal of Economic Perspectives 25(4) 2011, 3-30 (with Antonio Rangel)
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 | Tastes, Castes, and Culture: The Influence of Society on Preferences Economic Journal 121 (November 2011), F396-F412, doi:10/1111/j.1468-0297.2011.02478x (with K. Hoff) |
| Caste and Punishment: The Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement Economic Journal 121 (November 2011), F396-F412, doi:10/1111/j.1468-0297.2011.02476x (with K. Hoff and M. Kshetramade) |
| Contracts as Reference Points – Experimental Evidence
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Most recent publications in neuroeconomics and social neuroscience
 | Linking Brain Structure and Activation in Temporoparietal Junction to Explain the Neurobiology of Human Altruism
Press releases
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 | Dorsolateral and ventromedial prefrontal cortex orchestrate normative choice
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 | The role of testosterone in social interaction
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 | The Mentalizing Network Orchestrates the Impact of Parochial Altruism on Social Norm Enforcement
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Lateral prefrontal cortex and self-control in intertemporal choice
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 | A Neural Marker of Costly Punishment Behavior
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 | The Neural Circuitry of a Broken Promise
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 | Prejudice and truth about the effect of testosterone on human bargaining behaviour
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Most recent publications in Evolutionary Economics and Psychology
 | Wrath of God: religious primes and punishment
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 | 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
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 | Parochial altruism in humans
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The Most Recent Books
 | Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brainby 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. Buy at Amazon |
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Foundations of Human SocialityWhat 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? Buy at AmazonRelated Work
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Neuroeconomics and Social Neuroscience
| Linking Brain Structure and Activation in Temporoparietal Junction to Explain the Neurobiology of Human Altruism, Neuron 75, 2012, 73-79 (with Y. Morishima, D. Schunk, A. Bruhin, and C.C. Ruff) |
| Pharmacokinetics of Testosterone and Estradiol Gel Preparations in Healthy Young Men, Forthcoming in Psychoneuroendocrinology (with C. Eisenegger, A. von Eckardstein, and S. von Eckardstein) |
| PLos Computational Biology 8(1), 2012, 1-11 (with J.R. Chumbley, G. Flandin, D.R. Bach, J. Daunizeau, R.J. Dolan, and K.J. Friston) |
| Dorsolateral and ventromedial prefrontal cortex orchestrate normative choice, Nature Neuroscience, advance online publicaton doi:10.1038/nn.2933 (with T. Baumgartner, D. Knoch, P. Hotz, and C. Eisenegger) |
| The role of testosterone in social interaction Trends in Cognitive Sciences 15(6), 2011, 263-271 (with C. Eisenegger and J. Haushofer |
| Human Brain Mapping 33(6), 1452-1469 (with T. Baumgartner, L. Götte, and R. Gügler) |
| Lateral prefrontal cortex and self-control in intertemporal choice Nature Neuroscience 13(5), 2010, 538-539 (with B. Figner, D. Knoch, E.J. Johnson, A.R. Krosch, S.H. Lisanby, and E.U. Weber) |
| Biological Psychiatry 67(8), 2010, 702-706 (with C. Eisenegger, D. Knoch, R. Ebstein, L.R.R. Gianotti, and P. Sándor) |
| Psychological Science 21(3), 2010, 337-342 (with D. Knoch, L.R.R.Gianotti, and T. Baumgartner) |
| Neuron 64(5) (2009), 756-770 (with T. Baumgartner, U. Fischbacher, A. Feierabend, and K. Lutz) |
| Prejudice and truth about the effect of testosterone on human bargaining behaviour Nature Advance online publication doi:10.1038/nature08711, 2009 (with C. Eisenegger, M. Naef, R. Snozzi, and M. Heinrichs) |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 106 (49) (2009), 20895-99 (with D. Knoch, F. Schneider, D. Schunk, and M. Hohmann) |
| Psychological Science 20(1), 2009, 33-38 (with L.R. Gianotti, D. Knoch, P.L. Faber, D. Lehmann, R.D. Pascual-Marqui, C. Diezi, C. Schoch, and C. Eisenegger) |
| NeuroImage 42 (2008) 379 – 384 (with C. Eisenegger, V. Treyer and D. Knoch). |
| Neuron 58 (2008), 639-650 (with Thomas Baumgartner, Markus Heinrichs, Aline Vonlanthen, and Urs Fischbacher) |
| Cerebral Cortex 17 (12), 24 December 2007 (with Daria Knoch, Michael A. Nitsche, Urs Fischbacher, Christoph Eisenegger and Alvaro Pascual-Leone). |
| TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences 11 (10), October 2007, 419-426 (with Colin F. Camerer). |
| Neuron 56 (1), 4 October 2007, 185-196 (with Manfred Spitzer, Urs Fischbacher, Bärbel Herrnberger and Georg Grön). |
| Science 314, 3 November 2006, 912-915 (with Daria Knoch, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Kaspar Meyer, Valerie Treyer and Ernst Fehr). |
| Nature 435, 2 June 2005, 673-676 (with Michael Kosfeld, Markus Heinrichs, Paul Zak and Urs Fischbacher). |
| Science 305, 27 August 2004, 1254-1258. |
| American Economic Review - Papers & Proceedings 95 (2005), 346-351 (with Urs Fischbacher and Michael Kosfeld). |
| American Economic Review - Papers & Proceedings 95(2005), 340-345 (with Tania Singer). |
Human Cooperation and Sociality
| Psychological Science, advance online publication doi:10.1177/0956797611431576, 2012 (with B. von Dawans, U. Fischbacher, C. Kirschbaum, and M. Heinrichs) |
| Health effects on children's willingness to compete, Experimental Economics 15(1) (2012) 58 - 70 (with B. Bartling and D. Schunk) |
| Economic Journal 121 (2011), F396-F412 (with Karla Hoff) |
| Economic Journal 121 (2011), F449-F475 (with Karla Hoff and Mayuresh Kshetramade) |
| Experimental Economics doi 10.1007/s10683-011-9288-2 (with G. Bartling and D. Schunk) |
| Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 1144-1155 (with Andreas Leibbrandt) |
| Wrath of God: religious primes and punishment Proceedings of the Royal Society B, advanced online publication doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.2125 (with Ryan McKay, Charles Efferson, and Harvey Whitehouse) |
| American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 98:2 (2008) 494-499 (with Karla Hoff and Mayuresh Kshetramade) |
| Nature 454 (2008) 1079-1084 (with Helen Bernhard and Bettina Rockenbach) |
| Annual Review of Sociology 33, August 2007, 43–64 (with Herbert Gintis). |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (50), 11 December 2007, 19762–19766 (with Judith M. Burkart, Charles Efferson, and Carel P. van Schaik). |
| Parochial altruism in humans Nature 442, 24 August 2006, 912-915 (with Helen Bernhard and Urs Fischbacher). |
| Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2005) 28, 795–855 (with J. Henrich, R. Boyd, S. Bowles, H. Gintis, C.Camerer, R. McElreath, M. Gurven, K. Hill, A. Barr, J. Ensminger, D. Tracer, F. Marlow, J. Patton, M. Alvard, F. Gil-White and N. Henrich). |
| Econometrica 73 (6), November 2005, 2017–2030 (with Armin Falk and Urs Fischbacher). |
| Analyse & Kritik 27/2005 p. 6–47 (with Urs Fischbacher). |
| Analyse & Kritik 27/2005 p. 73–84. |
| TRENDS in Cognitive SciencesVol.8 No.4, April 2004, 185-190 (with Urs Fischbacher) |
| Evolution and Human Behvavior 25, 2004, 63-87 (with Urs Fischbacher) |
| Nature 425, 23 October 2003, 785-791 (with Urs Fischbacher) |
| Evolution and Human Behavior 24 (2003) 153–172 (with Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd) |
| Nature 422, 15 March 2002, 137-140 (with Bettina Rockenbach) |
| Nature 415, 10 January 2002, 137-140 (with Simon Gächter) Supporting online material: |
| Human Nature 13, (2002), 1-25 (with Urs Fischbacher and Simon Gächter) |
| Comment in Theoretical Primatology (with Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis) |
| forthcoming in: P. Hammerstein (Ed.), The Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. (with J. Henrich) |
| American Economic Review 91, (2001), 73-78 (with Henrich, Boyd, Bowles, Gintis, Camerer and McElreath) |
| American Economic Review 90, (2000), 980-994 (with Simon Gächter) Supporting online matierials: |
| American Economic Review 90, (2000), 247-264 (with Falkinger, Gächter, Winter-Ebmer) |
| Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 39, (1999), 341-369 (with Simon Gächter) |
| Appropriating the Commons - A Theoretical Explanation Th. Dietz, N. Dolšak, E. Ostrom, P. Stern, S. Stonich, E. Weber (Eds.), The Drama of the Commons, National Academy Press, February 2002 (with A. Falk and U. Fischbacher) |
| Informal Sanctions IEW Working Paper No. 59 (with A. Falk and U. Fischbacher) |
| Measuring Social Norms and Preferences Using Experimental Games: A Guide for Social Scientists forthcoming in: J. Henrich, R. Boyd, S. Bowles, H. Gintis, E. Fehr, R. McElreath (Eds.): Foundations of Human Sociality - Experimental and Ethnograhic Evidence from 15 Small-Scale Societies, Oxford University Press (with C. Camerer) |
Psychological Foundations of Incentives
| Scand. J. of Economics 106(3), 453-474, 2004 (with Klaus M. Schmidt) This is an electronic version of an article published in the Scandinavian Journal of Economics. Complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal's website or www.blackwell-synergy.com. |
| Journal of the European Economic Association. |
| Josef Schumpeter Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the European Economic Association 2001, European Economic Review 46 (2002), 687 - 724 |
| Fairness, Incentives and Contractual Incompleteness IEW Working Paper No. 72 (with K. Schmidt) |
| Do Incentive Contracts Crowd Out Voluntary Cooperation? IEW Working Paper No. 34 (with S. Gächter) |
| The Hidden Costs and Returns of Incentives – Trust and Trustworthiness among CEOs IEW Working Paper No. 134 (with J. List) |
| Econometrica 65, (1997), 833-860 (with S. Gächter and G. Kirchsteiger) |
| Reciprocity and Contract Enforcement forthcoming in: Handbook of Experimental Economic Results (with Simon Gächter) |
| A. Ben-Ner, L. Putterman (Eds.), Economics, values and organization, Cambridge University Press, 1998 (with Simon Gächter) |
Fairness and Reciprocity
| Journal of Public Economics (forthcoming) (with A. Leibbrandt) |
| Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 72 (2009) 527-545 (with C.M. Fong and U. Fischbacher) |
| Journal of the European Economic Association 7(2-3) (2009) 235-266 |
| Annual Review of Economics 1 (2009), 355-84 (with C. Zehnder and L. Goette) |
| American Economic Review 99:2, 93–98, 2009 (by Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, Michel André Maréchal, and Daniel Schunk) |
| The Economic Journal, 118 (August 2008), 1262–1284 (with Susanne Kremhelmer and Klaus M. Schmidt). |
| Games and Economic Behavior 62 (2008), 287-303 (with A. Falk and U. Fischbacher) |
| Econometrica 75/1 (2007), 121-154 (with A. Klein and K.M. Schmidt) |
| Quarterly Journal of Economics (2006), 1347-1381 (with A. Falk and C. Zehnder) |
| American Economic Review 96(5), 1912-1917 (with M. Naef and K.M. Schmidt) |
| The Role of Equality, Efficiency, and Rawlsian Motives in Social Preferences: A Reply to Engelmann and Strobel IEW Working Paper No. 179 (with Klaus M. Schmidt). |
| Frank Hahn Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Royal Economic Society 2001, Economic Journal 112 (2002), C1-C33. |
| Theories of Fairness and Reciprocity - Evidence and Economic Applications Invited Lecture at the 8th World Congress of the Econometric Society 2000, M. Dewatripont, L. Hansen and St. Turnovsky (Eds.),Advances in Economics and Econometrics - 8th World Congress, Econometric Society Monographs, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2002 (with K. Schmidt). |
| Fairness and Retaliation: The Economics of Reciprocity Journal of Economic Perspectives 14, (2000), 159-181 (with Simon Gächter). |
| A Theory of Fairness, Competition and Cooperation Quarterly Journal of Economics 114, (1999), 817-868 (with K. Schmidt). |
| On the Nature of Fair Behavior Economic Inquiry 41 (2003), 20-26 (with A. Falk and U. Fischbacher). |
| Fairness and the Power of Competition IEW Working Paper No. 133 (with U. Fischbacher and C. Fong) |
| Do High Stakes and Competition undermine Fairness - Evidence from Russia IEW Working Paper No. 120 (with U. Fischbacher and E. Tougareva). |
| A Nation-Wide Laboratory - Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Experiments in Representative Surveys Working Paper No. 141 (with U. Fischbacher, B.v. Rosenbladt, J. Schupp and G. Wagner). |
| Testing Theories of Fairness - Intentions Matter IEW Working Paper No. 63 (with A. Falk and U. Fischbacher). |
| Quarterly Journal of Economics 108, (1993), 437-460 (with G. Kirchsteiger und A. Riedl). |
Behavioral Labor Economics
| American Economic Review 102(2), 2012, 834-864 (with Björn Bartling and Klaus M. Schmidt) |
| American Economic Review 101(2) (2011), 493-525 (with O. Hart and C. Zehnder) |
| Forthcoming in the Journal of the European Economic Association (with Martin Brown and Armin Falk) |
| The American Economic ReviewCompetition and Relational Contracts: The Role of Unemployment as a Disciplinary Device. |
| Journal of Monetary Economics 52 (2005), 779-804 (with Lorenz Götte). |
| The Behavioral Effects of Minimum Wages June 2005 (with Armin Falk and Christian Zehnder). |
| Econometrica Vol. 72, No. 3, May 2004, 747-780 (with Martin Brown and Armin Falk). |
| Journal of the European Economic Association 2(2-3), April/May 2004, 216-228 (with Lorenz Goette and David Huffman). |
| Labour Economics 10, 2003, 399-406 (with Armin Falk). |
| Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 159 (2003), 171-187. |
| Do Workers work more if Wages are high? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment IEW Working Paper No. 125 (with L. Goette). |
| Robustness and Real Consequences of Nominal Wage Rigidity IEW Working Paper No. 44 (with L. Götte). |
| Journal of Political Economy 107, (1999), 106-134 (with A. Falk). |
| European Economic Review 42, (1998), 1-34 (with G. Kirchsteiger und A. Riedl). |
| Economic Journal Vol. 104, No. 424, (1994), 571-583 (with G. Kirchsteiger). |
| American Economic Review 80, (1990), 624-630. American Economic Review 81, (1991), 384. |
| Reciprocity in Experimental Markets forthcoming in: Handbook of Experimental Economic Results (with Armin Falk). |
| forthcoming in: Handbook of Experimental Economic Results (with Simon Gächter). |
Bounded Rationality and Strategic Interaction
| Forthcoming in the American Economic Review (with H. Herz and T. Wilkening) |
| Games and Economic Behavior 67 (2009), 481-502 (with D. Halbheer, L. Goette, and A. Schmutzler) |
| Econometrica 76 (2), March 2008, 353–394 (with Jean-Robert Tyran). |
| American Economic Review 96(5), 2006, 1912-1917 (with M. Naef and K.M. Schmidt) |
| Science 311, 6 January 2006, 47-52. (with Colin Camerer). |
| Journal of Economic Perspectives 19 (2005), 43-66 (with J.R. Tyran). |
| Money Illusion and Coordination Failure IEW Working Paper No. 177 (with J. R. Tyran). |
| Does Money Illusion Matter? American Economic Review 91 (2001), 1239-1262 (with J. R. Tyran). |
| Limited Rationality and Strategic Interaction - The Impact of the Strategic Environment on Nominal Inertia IEW Working Paper No. 130 (with J. R. Tyran). |
Bounded Rationality, Impatience and Intertemporal Choice
| Nature 415, 17 January 2002, 269-272. |
| Scand. J. Economics 100, 643-662, 1998 (with P. K. Zych). |
| Intertemporal Choice under Habit Formation forthcoming in: Handbook of Experimental Economic Results (with Peter Zych). |
Publications in economics and neuroscience in German |
| Schmollers Jahrbuch 130, 210, 297-323 (with B. Bartling, B. Fischer, F. Kosse, M. Maréchal, F. Pfeiffer, D. Schunk, J. Schupp, C. Spiess, and G. Wagner) |
Popular papers and Presentations
| NZZ No. 146, 25./26. Juni 2005 |
| NZZ No. 221, 22. September 2004 |
| FINRISK Newsletter No. 2, November 2004 |
| Spektrum der Wissenschaft, März 2002 (mit Karl Sigmund und Martin A. Nowak). |
| Scientific American, January 2002 (with Karl Sigmund and Martin A. Nowak). |
| NZZ, 28./29. April 2001 |
| NZZ, 13./14. Januar 2001 (with Suzann-Viola Renninger) |
| NZZ, 27./28. November 1999 |
| Vortrag zum Dies Academicus der Universität St. Gallen, 8. Juni 2002 |
Popular Papers and Presentations (Spanish version)
| Spektrum der Wissenschaft, März 2002 (mit Karl Sigmund und Martin A. Nowak). |
| NZZ, 28./29. April 2001 |
| NZZ, 27./28. November 1999 |
| Vortrag zum Dies Academicus der Universität St. Gallen, 8. Juni 2002 |