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Grand challenges in social physics: In pursuit of moral behavior
Valerio Capraro, Matjaz Perc
Methods of statistical physics have proven valuable for studying the evolution of cooperation in social dilemma games. However, recent empirical research shows that cooperative beh…
Doing good vs. avoiding bad in prosocial choice: A refined test and extension of the morality preference hypothesis
Ben M. Tappin, Valerio Capraro
Prosociality is fundamental to human social life, and, accordingly, much research has attempted to explain human prosocial behavior. Capraro and Rand (Judgment and Decision Making,…
Women are slightly more cooperative than men (in one-shot Prisoner's dilemma games played online)
Valerio Capraro
Differences between men and women have intrigued generations of social scientists, who have found that the two sexes behave differently in settings requiring competition, risk taki…
Time pressure and honesty in a deception game
Valerio Capraro, Jonathan Schulz, David G. Rand
Previous experiments have found mixed results on whether honesty is intuitive or requires deliberation. Here we add to this literature by building on prior work of Capraro (2017).…
Low cognitive reflection predicts honesty for men but not for women
Valerio Capraro, Niko Peltola
Previous experiments have explored the effects of gender and cognitive reflection on dishonesty separately. To the best of our knowledge, no studies have investigated potential int…
Social versus Moral preferences in the Ultimatum Game: A theoretical model and an experiment
Valerio Capraro
In the Ultimatum Game (UG) one player, named "proposer", has to decide how to allocate a certain amount of money between herself and a "responder". If the offer is greater than or…