One of the key scientific challenges is the puzzle of human cooperation. Why do people cooperate? Why do people help strangers, even sometimes at a major cost to themselves? Why do people want to punish people who violate norms and undermine collective interests? This book is inspired by the...

Purpose Developing professional identities as both researchers and teachers is core to doctoral students’ growth. Given the primacy of research for the university career, this study aimed at answering the following questions: how much do doctoral students identify with the teacher compared to...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the causal relationship between interactive and personal campaigning on social media and political involvement, and the mechanisms that explain the effects. Specifically, this study examines whether personal and interactive communication on Twitter...

The random incentive system (RIS) is a standard incentive scheme used to elicit preferences in economic experiments. However, it has been speculated that RIS may not be incentive compatible when participants are concerned about ambiguity, i.e., that the choices observed under RIS do not reflect...

Our decisions frequently involve the combinations of gains and losses occurring at different points in time, such as enduring early losses for future gains (investments), or enjoying immediate gains at the expense of future losses (loans). This study introduces novel experiments that examine how...