The complexity of many biological, social and technological systems stems from the richness
of the interactions among their units. Over the past decades, a variety of complex systems …

This paper reviews the literature on gender differences in economic experiments. In the
three main sections, we identify robust differences in risk preferences, social (other …

Artificial agents have traditionally been trained to maximize reward, which may incentivize
power-seeking and deception, analogous to how next-token prediction in language models …

Private information is at the heart of many economic activities. For decades, economists
have assumed that individuals are willing to misreport private information if this maximizes …

People like to think of themselves as honest. However, dishonesty pays—and it often pays
well. How do people resolve this tension? This research shows that people behave …

In this article we explore the issues that surround within-subject and between-subject
designs. We describe experiments in economics and in psychology that make comparisons …

We present evidence of cheating that took place in online examinations during COVID-19
lockdowns and propose two solutions with and without a camera for the cheating problem …

One-shot anonymous unselfishness in economic games is commonly explained by social
preferences, which assume that people care about the monetary pay-offs of others …

We examine experimentally the impact of communication on trust and cooperation. Our
design admits observation of promises, lies, and beliefs. The evidence is consistent with …

We present a novel experimental design to measure honesty and lying. Participants receive
a die which they roll privately. Since their payoff depends on the reported roll of the die, the …