Behavioural Principles of Large-Scale Cooperation

Project Information

PRINCIPLES

Grant agreement ID: 101020453

DOI

10.3030/101020453

EC signature date 20 June 2021

Start date 1 September 2021

End date 30 April 2027

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 496 465,00

EU contribution

€ 2 496 465,00

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (19)

Group Identity and Peer Effects in Rule-Following

Author(s): Simon Gachter, Cristina Bicchieri, Lucas Molleman, Daniele Nosenzo
Published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2025, ISSN 0167-2681
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5223097

Why people follow rules

Author(s): Simon Gächter, Lucas Molleman, Daniele Nosenzo
Published in: Nature Human Behaviour, Issue 9, 2025, Page(s) 1342-1354, ISSN 2397-3374
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02196-4

Preferences and perceptions in Provision and Maintenance public goods

Author(s): Simon Gaechter, Felix Koelle, Simone Quercia
Published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2022, Page(s) 338-355, ISSN 0899-8256
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2022.06.009

Luck framing supports the avoidance of collective disaster when inequalities in vulnerability exist

Author(s): Eugene Malthouse, Charlie Pilgrim, Daniel Sgroi, Thomas T. Hills
Published in: Journal of Environmental Psychology, Issue 104, 2025, Page(s) 102592, ISSN 0272-4944
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102592

Encouraging people to set lower personal carbon budgets: anchoring is more effective than social reference groups

Author(s): Sarah Lynn Flecke, Erika Aparicio, Eugene Malthouse
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1648500

The power of leadership in changing social norms in heterogeneous societies

Author(s): Fabio Galeotti, Jona Krutaj, Marie Claire Villeval
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 123, 2026, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2526916123

The private solution trap in collective action problems across 34 nations

Author(s): Eugene Malthouse, Charlie Pilgrim, Daniel Sgroi, Michela Accerenzi, Antonio Alfonso, Rana Umair Ashraf, Max Baard, Sanchayan Banerjee, Alexis Belianin, Swagata Bhattacharjee, Mihir Bhattacharya, Pablo Brañas-Garza, Juan-Camilo Cárdenas, Miguel Carriquiry, Syngjoo Choi, Gwen-Jiro Clochard, Eduardo Ezekiel Denzon, Bartlomiej Dessoulavy-Sliwinski, Giorgio Dini, Lu Dong, Antal Ertl, Filippos Exadakt
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 123, 2026, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2504632123

Wherefore art thou competitors? How situational affordances help differentiate among prosociality, individualism, and competition

Author(s): Yi Liu, Adam W. Stivers, Ryan O. Murphy, Niels J. Van Doesum, Jeff Joireman, Marcello Gallucci, Efrat Aharonov-Majar, Ursula Athenstaedt, Liying Bai, Robert Böhm, Nancy R. Buchan, Xiao-Ping Chen, Kitty B. Dumont, Jan B. Engelmann, Kimmo Eriksson, Hyun Euh, Susann Fiedler, Justin Friesen, Simon Gächter, Camilo Garcia, Roberto González, Sylvie Graf, Katarzyna Growiec, Martina Hřebíčková, Gokh
Published in: European Journal of Personality, Issue 40, 2026, Page(s) 24-45, ISSN 0890-2070
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1177/08902070241298850

How to activate threat perceptions in behavior research: A simple technique for inducing health and resource scarcity threats

Author(s): Ozan Isler, Onurcan Yilmaz, A. John Maule, Simon Gächter
Published in: Behavior Research Methods, Issue Volume 56, December 2024, 2024, Page(s) 8379–8395, ISSN 1554-3528
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-024-02481-6

Social preferences and the variability of conditional cooperation

Author(s): Malte Baader, Simon Gächter, Kyeongtae Lee, Martin Sefton
Published in: Economic Theory, Issue 81, 2026, Page(s) 341-366, ISSN 0938-2259
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-024-01617-1

The scenicness of historic buildings rivals that of natural features: evidence from crowdsourced photographs of English urban areas

Author(s): Sidney Sherborne, Eugene Malthouse
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 16, 2026, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1645424

The contractual dispute resolution game: Real-effort experiments on contract negotiation and arbitration

Author(s): Brice Corgnet, Simon Gächter, Roberto Hernán-González
Published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Issue 231, 2025, Page(s) 106902, ISSN 0167-2681
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.106902

Measuring “Group Cohesion” to Reveal the Power of Social Relationships in Team Production

Author(s): Simon Gaechter, Chris Starmer, Fabio Tufano
Published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, ISSN 0034-6535
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_01283

Conforming with peers in honesty and cooperation

Author(s): Ozan Isler, Simon Gaechter
Published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, Page(s) 75-86, ISSN 0167-2681
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2021.12.026

Introducing IOS11 as an extended interactive version of the ‘Inclusion of Other in the Self’ scale to estimate relationship closeness

Author(s): Malte Baader, Chris Starmer, Fabio Tufano, Simon Gaechter
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue Volume 14, April 2024, 2024, Page(s) 8901, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-58042-6

Incentives crowd out voluntary cooperation: evidence from gift-exchange experiments

Author(s): Simon Gächter, Esther Kaiser, Manfred Königstein
Published in: Experimental Economics, Issue 28, 2025, Page(s) 75-106, ISSN 1386-4157
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1017/eec.2024.14

No rest for the weary: Pay uncertainty reduces engagement in recovery.

Author(s): Brice Corgnet, Roberto Hernán-González, Gordon M. Sayre, Simon Gächter
Published in: Journal of Applied Psychology, Issue 111, 2026, Page(s) 638-657, ISSN 0021-9010
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/apl0001335

The Role of Payoff Parameters for Cooperation in the One-Shot Prisoner's Dilemma

Author(s): Simon Gaechter, Kyeongtae Lee, Martin Sefton, Till O. Weber
Published in: European Economic Review, Issue Volume 166, July 2024, 2024, Page(s) 104753, ISSN 0014-2921
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2024.104753

The behavioral mechanisms of voluntary cooperation across culturally diverse societies: Evidence from the US, the UK, Morocco, and Turkey

Author(s): Till O. Weber, Jonathan F. Schulz, Benjamin Beranek, Fatima Lambarraa-Lehnhardt, Simon Gaechter
Published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Issue Volume 215, November 2023, 2023, Page(s) 134-152, ISSN 0167-2681
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2023.09.006