People exhibit more risk-prone behaviors when together with peers than when in private.
The interplay of social context effects and other variables that alter human risk preferences …

A perception at the core of studies that consider the link between social rank and stress
(typically measured by the so-called stress hormone cortisol) is that the link is direct …

Objective The current study aims to explore the influence of social comparison on risk
decision-making for self and for groups in intergroup contexts. Method Two experiments with …

In many collective action problems individuals' contributions increase the probability of a
collectively favorable event rather than affect the quantity of public goods provided. Such …

The experiments presented and analyzed in this dissertation concern two well-established
phenomena in behavioral economics: that human decision makers hold biased beliefs …

Many socially desirable actions are subject to risk and occur in situations where the others
are not anonymous. Assessing whether lower subject-subject anonymity affects behavior …

We report experimental evidence from a 3-person Dictator Game in which dictators decide
over the distribution of probabilities of winning a fixed, indivisible, monetary prize. This …