Selected publications

forthcoming

• A Systematic Evaluation of Text Mining Methods for Short Texts: Mapping Individuals’ Internal States from Online Posts. Behavior Research Methods. (with A. Macanovic)
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• Cooperation, punishment, and group change in multilevel public goods experiments. European Economic Review. (with K. Otten, V. Buskens, B. Cherki, S. Israel)
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• The Moral Embeddedness of Cryptomarkets: Text Mining Feedback on Economic Exchanges on the Dark Web. Socio-Economic Review. (with A. Macanovic)
• Laboratory experiments. Forthcoming in U. Liebe (ed.), Handbook of Quantitative Methods in Sociology, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
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2024

• Signals of Belonging: Emergence of Signalling Norms as Facilitators of Trust and Parochial Cooperation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 379: 20230029. (with A. Macanovic, M. Tsvetkova, V. Buskens)
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2023

• Does Living in a Protected Area Reduce Resource Use and Promote Life Satisfaction? Survey Results from and Around Three Regional Nature Parks in Switzerland. Social Indicators Research 169: 341-364. (with T. Wiesli)
• The Impact of Social Impact Bond Financing. Public Administration Review 83(4): 930-946. (with D. Hevenstone, A. Fraser, L. Hobi, G. Geuke)
• The competitive advantage of sanctioning institutions revisited: a multi-lab replication. PNAS Nexus 2(5): pgad091. (with S. Lo Iacono, V. Buskens, R. Corten, M. van Assen, A. van de Rijt)
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• Testing sociological theories with digital trace data from online markets. Pp. 241-257 in J. Skopek (ed.), Research Handbook of Digital Sociology, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
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2022

• Human cooperation in changing groups in a large-scale public goods game. Nature Communications 13: 6399. (with K. Otten, U. Frey, V. Buskens, N. Ellemers)
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• How norms emerge from conventions (and change). Socius 8: 1-16. (with A. Szekely, G. Andrighetto, A. Diekmann, L. Tummolini)
• Moderators of reputation effects in peer-to-peer online markets: a meta-analytic model selection approach. Journal of Computational Social Science 5(1): 1041-1067. (with R. Jiao, V. Buskens)
• The role of reinforcement learning in the emergence of conventions: Simulation experiments with the repeated volunteer’s dilemma. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 25(1): 7. (with H. Nunner, C. Janssen)
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2021

• Game-theoretic models. Pp. 414-431 in G. Manzo (ed.), Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
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• COVID-19 vulnerability and perceived norm violations predict loss of social trust: a pre-post study. Social Science & Medicine 291: 114513. (with S. Lo Iaconno, V. Buskens, R. Corten, A. van de Rijt)
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• Parochial cooperation and the emergence of signalling norms. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 376: 20200294. (with A. Diekmann)
• Technology use and norm change in online privacy: Experimental evidence from vignette studies. Information, Communication & Society 24(9): 1212–1228. (with C. Horne)
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• Does herding undermine the trust enhancing effect of reputation? An empirical investigation with online-auction data. Social Forces 99(4): 1575–1600. (with O. Aksoy)
• Reputation effects in peer-to-peer online markets: A meta-analysis. Social Science Research 95: 102522. (with R. Jiao, V. Buskens)
• The emergence of conventions in the repeated volunteer’s dilemma: The role of social value orientation, payoff asymmetries and focal points. Social Science Research 93: 102488. (with L. Bouman, E. de Kwaadsteniet)
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2020

• Heterogeneous groups cooperate in public good problems despite normative disagreements about individual contribution levels. Scientific Reports 10: 16702. (with K. Otten, V. Buskens, N. Ellemers)
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• How can consumer trust in energy utilities be increased? The effectiveness of prosocial, pro-environmental, and service-oriented investments as signals of trustworthiness. Organization & Environment 33(2): 262-284. (with C. Horne)
• How dominance hierarchies emerge from conflict: A game theoretic model and experimental evidence. Social Science Research 86: 102393. (with C. Rutten, V. Buskens, A. Szekely)
• Binding contracts, non-binding promises and social feedback in the intertemporal common-pool resource game. Games 11(1): 5. (with A. Diekmann)
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2019

• Sharing compromising information as a cooperative strategy. Sociological Science 6: 352-379. (with D. Gambetta)
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• Trust and reputation in markets. Pp. 383-400 in F. Giardini & R. Wittek (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (with A. Diekmann)

2018

• Heterogeneous groups overcome the diffusion of responsibility problem in social norm enforcement. PLOS ONE 13(11): e0208129. (with A. Diekmann)
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• Behavioral regularities and norm stickiness: The cases of transracial adoption and online privacy. Social Research: An International Quarterly 85(1): 93-113. (with C. Horne and J. Tinkler)

2017

• Order without law: Reputation promotes cooperation in a cryptomarket for illegal drugs. European Sociological Review 33(6): 752–764. (with L. Norbutas and R. Corten)
• Consensual punishment does not promote cooperation in the six-person prisoner’s dilemma game with noisy public monitoring. PLOS ONE 12(11): e0188503. (with N. van Miltenburg and V. Buskens)
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• Signalling theory evolving: Signals and signs of trustworthiness in social exchange. Pp. 373-392 in B. Jann & W. Przepiorka (eds.), Social dilemmas, institutions, and the evolution of cooperation, Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. (with J. Berger)
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2016

• Choosing a partner for social exchange: Charitable giving as a signal of trustworthiness. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 129: 157-171. (with S. Fehrler)
• The sanctioning dilemma: A quasi-experiment on social norm enforcement in the train. European Sociological Review 32(3): 439-451. (with J. Berger)
• Generosity is a sign of trustworthiness – the punishment of selfishness is not. Evolution and Human Behavior 37(4): 255-262. (with U. Liebe)
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• “Take One for the Team!” Individual heterogeneity and the emergence of latent norms in a volunteer’s dilemma. Social Forces 94(3): 1309-1333. (with A. Diekmann)
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2015

• Lifting the veil of ignorance: An experiment on the contagiousness of norm violations. Rationality and Society 27(3): 309-333. (with A. Diekmann and H. Rauhut)
• Punitive preferences, monetary incentives and tacit coordination in the punishment of defectors promote cooperation in humans. Scientific Reports 5: 10321. (with A. Diekmann)
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• Responsibility attribution for collective decision makers. American Journal of Political Science 59(2): 372-389. (with R. Duch and R. Stevenson)
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2014

• Reputation in offline and online markets: Solutions to trust problems in social and economic exchange. Economic Sociology, the European Electronic Newsletter 16(1): 4-10.
• Natural and strategic generosity as signals of trustworthiness. PLOS ONE 9(5): e97533. (with D. Gambetta)
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• Reputation formation and the evolution of cooperation in anonymous online markets. American Sociological Review 79(1): 65-85. (with A. Diekmann, B. Jann and S. Wehrli)

2013

• Individual heterogeneity and costly punishment: a volunteer’s dilemma. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 280: 20130247. (with A. Diekmann)
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• Charitable giving as a signal of trustworthiness: Disentangling the signaling benefits of altruistic acts. Evolution and Human Behavior 34(2): 139-145. (with S. Fehrler)
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• Buyers pay for and sellers invest in a good reputation: More evidence from eBay. Journal of Socio-Economics 42(C): 31-42.
• Temporal embeddedness and signals of trustworthiness: Experimental tests of a game theoretic model in the United Kingdom, Russia and Switzerland. European Sociological Review 29(5): 1010-1023. (with A. Diekmann)

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