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most citedThe effect of norm-based messages on reading and understanding COVID-19 pandemic response governmental rules

9 citations · 13 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

econ.GN2025

Quantifying walkable accessibility to urban services: An application to Florence, Italy

Leonardo Boncinelli, Stefania Miricola, Eugenio Vicario

The concept of quality of life in urban settings is increasingly associated to the accessibility of amenities within a short walking distance for residents. However, this narrative…

econ.GN2024

AI-powered Chatbots: Effective Communication Styles for Sustainable Development Goals

Ennio Bilancini, Leonardo Boncinelli, Eugenio Vicario

This paper presents an analysis of two pre-registered experimental studies examining the impact of `Motivational Interviewing' and `Directing Style' on discussions about Sustainabl…

physics.soc-ph2023

Coevolution of cognition and cooperation in structured populations under reinforcement learning

Rossana Mastrandrea, Leonardo Boncinelli, Ennio Bilancini

We study the evolution of behavior under reinforcement learning in a Prisoner's Dilemma where agents interact in a regular network and can learn about whether they play one-shot or…

econ.TH2022

Assortativity in cognition

Ennio Bilancini, Leonardo Boncinelli, Eugenio Vicario

In pairwise interactions assortativity in cognition means that pairs where both decision-makers use the same cognitive process are more likely to occur than what happens under rand…

econ.TH2021★ 4 cited

Efficiency and Stability in a Process of Teams Formation

Leonardo Boncinelli, Alessio Muscillo, Paolo Pin

Motivated by data on coauthorships in scientific publications, we analyze a team formation process that generalizes matching models and network formation models, allowing for overl…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 9 cited

The effect of norm-based messages on reading and understanding COVID-19 pandemic response governmental rules

Ennio Bilancini, Leonardo Boncinelli, Valerio Capraro +2

The new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) threatens the lives of millions of people around the world, making it the largest health threat in recent times. Billions of people around th…

physics.soc-ph2020

"Do the Right Thing" for Whom? An Experiment on Ingroup Favouritism, Group Assorting and Moral Suasion

Ennio Bilancini, Leonardo Boncinelli, Valerio Capraro +2

In this paper we investigate the effect of moral suasion on ingroup favouritism. We report a well-powered, pre-registered, two-stage 2x2 mixed-design experiment. In the first stage…

physics.soc-ph2019

Shall we turn off the media? Global information can destroy local cooperation in the one-dimensional ring

Bilge Aydin, Marta Biondo, Deepak Gupta +7

In this paper we investigate the evolution of cooperation when the interaction structure is strictly local, and hence fitness only depends on local behaviors, while the competition…