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Marius Vollberg @mariusvollberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Did you leave twitter? How much worse would it have been for everyone if you had stayed? New paper w/ Jörg Gross (out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com) shows that selfish *and* prosocial actors distort the social impact of their actions, with selfish-serving distortions showing greater contagion.

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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This week's Cooperation Colloquium: Patricia Kanngiesser @patkanngiesser.bsky.social Sustaining cooperation in intra- and inter-generational resource dilemmas Date: October 2 Time: 15:00 UTC+2 (Vienna) / 9am NYC Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

Abstract: The world faces escalating environmental crises that demand cooperation within and across generations. Experimental games provide a testbed for studying sustainable decision-making and cooperation in a safe and controlled environment and for exploring underlying factors. In this talk, I will give an overview of past and ongoing research with children and adults, focusing on inter- and intra-generational sustainability dilemmas. In past work, we have shown that groups of children from two cultures successfully collaborated in a threshold public-goods game using water as a real resource (Kanngiesser et al., 2024). In recent work, we have employed a newly developed harvesting game with a depletable resource to study cooperation across generations of players—specifically, whether participants will adjust their harvesting behaviour and conserve resources better when they know that another, future player will depend on them. I will present new data from both adult participants and cross-cultural child participants on whether they make decisions that benefit themselves and/or future others. For adults, we also explore the role of task framing, cognitive factors (e.g. numeracy), and Social Value Orientation in their decision-making. I will discuss specific challenges of inter-generational collaboration: people might be motivated to benefit future others but might not know how to act to improve their own and others’ outcomes.

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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today's Cooperation Colloquium

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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Our first speaker this week is Kasper Otten (WODC/Erasmus University Rotterdam): The co-occurrence of ingroup and outgroup prosociality across 121 societies Friday, September 18 15:00 UTC+2 (Vienna) / 9am NYT / 21 Beijing Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

Abstract: In an increasingly interconnected world, prosociality across group boundaries becomes ever more important. Yet, a common premise in the behavioral and social sciences is that people are prosocial mainly toward their ingroup and not outgroups. So far, evidence for this premise comes mostly from studies in which people must choose between ingroup and outgroup prosociality, thereby precluding positive associations between the two types of prosociality. We study situations in which people make separate decisions regarding the ingroup and outgroup, allowing us to examine how ingroup and outgroup prosociality are related. Across six large-scale and cross-societal datasets spanning 743,402 individuals in 121 societies, we find a robust positive relationship between ingroup and outgroup prosociality. This relationship holds across societies, different group categorizations, and a diverse range of prosociality measures, including prisoner’s dilemmas, public good dilemmas, dictator games, and survey items on trust and tolerance. Although people are somewhat more prosocial toward their ingroup than the outgroup, those who are prosocial toward the ingroup also tend to be prosocial toward the outgroup. The results offer an optimistic message for prosociality across group boundaries. When people are not made to choose between the ingroup and outgroup, they are generally prosocial toward both.

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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Autumn 2026 Cooperation Colloquia We have an exciting interdisciplinary series of speakers with Kasper Otten, @patkanngiesser.bsky.social, @charlesefferson.bsky.social @nikoletaglyn.bsky.social, Cameron Curtin, & Devesh Rustagi Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

List of speakers:
2026-09-18 | Kasper Otten (WODC / Erasmus University Rotterdam) | The co-occurrence of ingroup and outgroup prosociality across 121 societies
2026-10-02 | Patricia Kanngiesser (University of Plymouth)
2026-10-16 | Charles Efferson (Université de Lausanne)
2026-10-30 | Nikoleta Glynatsi (RIKEN Center for Computational Science)
2026-11-13 | Cameron Curtin (IAST)
2026-12-11 | Devesh Rustagi (University of Warwick)

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simine vazire @simine.com · 02/09/2026

Psych Science has retracted Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002). The second author requested the retraction. Both authors agreed to it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... So grateful to @datacolada.bsky.social for these blog posts and the work behind them: datacolada.org/138 and datacolada.org/139 1/2

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Data Colada @datacolada.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Colada[139] Artificial Deadlines Part 2 Evidence of fraud in the 25 year old gradesheet behind the key finding in an influential paper on deadlines and procrastination. datacolada.org/139

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

New blog post: Evaluating Dr. Cuddy’s Claim that the Debunking of Power Posing is a Myth. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/05/eval... On an AI generated description of a non-existent study, incorrectly citing findings from studies, and the importance of scientific criticism.

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Evaluating Dr. Cuddy’s Claim that the Debunking of Power Posing is a Myth

In this blog post I will analyse the arguments that Dr. Amy Cuddy provided in a blog post “The "Power Posing Was Debunked" Myth: What the Re...

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Angelo Romano @aromano.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

🤖 How does AI behave when conflict becomes strategic and costly? And what are the consequences for humans?🤖 We have a new preprint out exploring how large language models make decisions in situations involving attack, defense, and strategic conflict. Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I p-hacked my early work on prejudice. It never felt like cheating. I now wonder if that's because I believed the cause was good. New essay on why scholar-activism is a dangerous turn for social psychology. If justice comes first, truth is what gets sacrificed. open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...

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My P-Hacking Felt Like Truth

I became a social psychologist because I wanted to make the world a better place.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

We are hiring an assistant professor in Metascience! Join our lovely department of Human-Technology Interaction, with a very active Metascience group, at Eindhoven University of Technology. Apply here before August 14, or share the vacancy in your network! www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

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Assistant Professor in Metascience

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Anne Eich @anneic.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

New Preprint! osf.io/preprints/ps... New working paper with @qinyuxiao.bsky.social , @hannesrusch.bsky.social and @robertboehm.bsky.social . In our new study we compare two approaches to measuring parochialism. (1/5)

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I built a website that tracks open source tools that provide automated checks for scientific manuscripts: lakens.github.io/automated_re... It provides a summary through RSS feed that you can subscribe to. It tracks 13 repositories - if you want your repo to be included, let me know!

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WHAT IS BEING BUILT

Tools that perform automated checks have the potential to assist researchers. Just as a spelling check can warn users for possible misspellings, automated checks of statistical reporting, data and…

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Qinyu Xiao @qinyuxiao.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

New working paper with @robertboehm.bsky.social: it is an early version likely needing significant revision, so feedback is very much appreciated. We review multi-level games: a family of economic games that capture tensions within and between groups simultaneously. (1/5) doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Qinyu Xiao @qinyuxiao.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

After a fantastic #ICSD2026 in Shimonoseki (@icsd2026.bsky.social), it’s time to study direct reciprocity in the nature of Japan.

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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

A special Cooperation Colloquium this week: Shuxian Jin @shuxianjin.bsky.social The cultural logic of honor in cooperation and punishment across societies Date: Friday, May 22 Time: 15:00 UTC+2 (Vienna) / 9am ET (NYC) Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

Abstract: In social interactions, individuals frequently face trade-offs between personal and collective interests, ranging from zero-sum situations — where personal gain may come at others’ expense — to positive-sum situations, where joint efforts lead to mutual benefit. Punishment can sustain cooperation by deterring free riding (prosocial punishment), yet it can also provoke retaliation; when directed at cooperators (antisocial punishment), punishment may even undermine collective welfare. In this talk, I will present two cross-cultural studies examining the role of the cultural logic of honor in shaping how individuals navigate these tensions and adopt particular punishment strategies in situations involving conflicts of interest. Drawing on a 13-society online behavioral experiment (n = 3,371), we found that perceived societal norms of honor were associated with greater competition in zero-sum situations, but also greater coordinative efforts in positive-sum situations at both individual and societal levels. In a multi-lab experiment conducted in Egypt (n = 266), South Korea (n = 212), and the UK (n = 192), we found that honor values and norms were not directly associated with engagement in prosocial or antisocial punishment. However, when individuals experience unfair treatment, honor values and norms intensified antisocial retaliatory responses. Together, these studies show how honor, as a relatively understudied cultural construct, helps explain variation in cooperation and punishment across societies.

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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

This week's Cooperation Colloquium: Sebastian Hafenbrädl @shafenbraedl.bsky.social Social rewards protection theory: Why people morally derogate prosocial actors for undisclosed personal benefits Date: May 8 Time: 15:00 UTC+2 (Vienna) / 9am ET (NYC) Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

Abstract: Prosocial behavior is common and often socially rewarded (e.g., via liking, status, and trust). Yet prior research has found that if actors themselves also benefit from their prosocial behavior, then they are morally derogated: They are evaluated as worse than purely selfish actors. This tainted-altruism effect has been explained by the use of different counterfactuals for the evaluation of prosocial and selfish actors. Here I propose social rewards protection theory, which explains why evaluators use these different counterfactuals in the first place: Social rewards are treated as being reserved for costly prosocial actions. Claiming such rewards without incurring costs seems like cheating and thus deserves moral derogation. Accordingly, being transparent about the action’s costs and benefits prevents such derogation. I conducted six experiments (five preregistered) with Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) workers in the United States and lab participants in Spain (total N = 4,732 adults). The findings provide support for the proposed functional explanation of tainted altruism, which also sheds light on related phenomena, such as overhead aversion and hypocrisy.

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Soziologisches Institut SUZ - Universität Zürich @sociology-uzh.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The Department of Sociology at the University of Zurich is looking for a senior researcher for a tenured position who will permanently contribute an additional innovative specialization within theory-driven empirical sociology to the department's research and teaching. *** Das Soziologische I...

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Senior Researcher in Sociology - open topic (100%, tenured)

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

There seems to be a broad perception across psychology and neuroscience that work shouldn't be "too technical" in order to reach the broadest possible audience. While I think we should strive for accessibility, I feel that this attitude can also be self-defeating: why are we dumbing down?

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Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Excited to launch the website for our EASP pre-conference on Prosocial & Antisocial Behavior: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Methods 📅 June 30 | Strasbourg ⏰ Early bird deadline: April 14 Program: sites.google.com/view/prosocial-and-antisocial/ @easp2026.bsky.social @shuxianjin.bsky.social

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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

This week's Cooperation Colloquium: Saptarshi Pal (Harvard) From simultaneous to leader-follower play in direct reciprocity Date: April 10 Time: 15:00 UTC+2 (Vienna) / 9am ET (NYC) Sign up here: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

Abstract: Repeated interaction is a key mechanism driving the evolution of cooperation, generosity, extortion, and other social behaviors. These behaviors are typically studied using two-player repeated games, where the two players act simultaneously in every round. In this paper, we begin with a standard two-action repeated game, but transform it into a leader–follower game. We do this by forcing one player to indicate their impending move, or to openly commit first in each round. We show that this simple transformation provides new and useful analytical insights. In particular, we use this transformation to derive expressions for the main classes of simultaneous-move Nash equilibria of memory-1, when payoffs are discounted. We show that these equilibria also remain stable under the leader–follower structure. We prove that this reassuring property does not always extend to games with more than two actions or to equilibrium strategies with longer memory. Overall, we establish a novel connection between repeated simultaneous-move games and repeated leader–follower games in evolutionary game theory. This approach offers fruitful means of investigating how prediction and anticipation play a role in stable social behavior.

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Gilad Feldman @giladfeldman.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

== Effect Size and Confidence Intervals (ESCI) check == Lots improved. Has a revamped website and R package on CRAN. Works like statcheck, also checks effect sizes and calculates confidence intervals. Tricky countless edge cases, but after testing it on 1000s of articles, seems pretty decent.

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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

This is worth a read even if you're not into evolutionary theory. Trivers' work was as obviously brilliant as his reported behaviour was awful. It forces us to consider how much space academia should give to people whose behaviour towards others is frequently hurtful.

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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

This week's Cooperation Colloquium: Minhua Yan @minhuayan.bsky.social @iast.fr The persistence and adaptation of social norms: Theory and field evidence Date: March 27 Time: 15:00 UTC+1 (Vienna) / 10 am ET (NYC) Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

Abstract: Social norms are unwritten rules that guide human behavior and social interaction. They play a central role in promoting cooperation and maintaining cultural diversity. Yet because norms pressure people to do what others do, they may also sustain practices that are inefficient or harmful. In this talk, I present insights from a mathematical model and a field study that together examine whether and how such norms can persist. The model challenges the idea that arbitrary or harmful norms can be maintained solely through social pressure. It shows that norms with continuously varying behavioral options cannot be maintained at ecologically or psychologically suboptimal equilibria, suggesting that norms adapt more readily than previously assumed. I then present evidence from a field study among the Derung, small-scale horticulturalists in Yunnan, China. Derung farmers continued to follow a traditional cooperative farming harvest division norm after market integration. They did so even though they recognized its lower ecological payoff and expected no social disapproval for deviating from it. Rather than payoff calculations, Derung farmers adhered to the norm out of a desire to follow tradition and common practice. However, five years later the norm had changed, consistent with the model’s prediction that norms with continuously varying options eventually adapt to ecological conditions.

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Qinyu Xiao @qinyuxiao.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Simon will make a fantastic supervisor. He's impressively broad in knowledge and pays close attention to methodology. He's also very thorough in providing feedback. I've benefited a lot from working with Simon. Reach out to him if you find his topics interesting!

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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Today's Cooperation Colloquium

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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Cooperation Colloquium this week: Manon Schweinfurth @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social Pathways to reciprocal cooperation across taxa Date: March 13 Time: 15:00 UTC+1 (Vienna) / 10 am ET (NYC) Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

Abstract: If only those behaviours evolve that increase the actor’s own survival and reproductive success, then it might come as a surprise that cooperative behaviours, i.e., providing benefits to others, are a widespread phenomenon. One possibility to explain these behaviours is reciprocal cooperation, i.e., helping those that were helpful before. Still, the evolutionary origin of it is largely unclear, mainly because it is believed that - in contrast to humans - other animals do not exchange help reciprocally. Yet, I propose that reciprocity is likely to be widespread. In my talk, I will first shed light on the mechanisms of reciprocal cooperation in Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus). In a series of studies, my colleagues and I have demonstrated that Norway rats reciprocally exchange goods and services between and within different commodities and that reciprocal cooperation is not necessarily cognitively demanding. Furthermore, to understand the evolutionary origins of human reciprocity, and whether it is shared with other animals, I will then discuss evidence for reciprocity in non-human primates, which are our closest living relatives. A thorough analysis of the findings showed that reciprocity is present and not confined to unrelated individuals. Based on my findings, I conclude that reciprocal cooperation in non-human animals is present but largely neglected and not restricted to humans.

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Benoît de Courson @bdecourson.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

In poverty, do people take more or less risk? Some theories contend that they avoid risk out of caution. Others that they take risks (e.g. crime) out of desperation. In our new paper in BBS, we show that they are the two sides of the same coin: the desperation threshold. Peer commentary call soon!

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Explaining the paradoxical effects of poverty on risk taking: The Desperation Threshold Model | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core

Explaining the paradoxical effects of poverty on risk taking: The Desperation Threshold Model

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Hirotaka Imada @hirotakaimada.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

New paper led by @makitotakei.bsky.social! We found experimental evidence for one of the key theoretical tenets of audience cost theory - those in the challenged country understand that the challenger’s leader would face a punishment for backing down.

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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Cooperation Colloquium this week: Taylor Kessinger (U Penn): Adaptive dynamics of reputation, social norms, and gossip Date: Feb 27 Time: 15:00 UTC+1 / 9 am ET Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

Abstract: Human societies are characterized by large-scale cooperative behavior, even among unrelated strangers. Why? One plausible answer is indirect reciprocity: If I help a stranger, I might gain a good reputation, increasing the likelihood that others will help me in turn. But under what circumstances can indirect reciprocity facilitate a stable, cooperative status quo? Can these circumstances—for example, a high level of agreement about reputations—evolve in the first place? For that matter, what rules for assigning reputations can evolve? I use adaptive dynamics to attain simple, intuitive answers to these questions. Specifically, I study the evolution of cooperative strategies, gossiping behavior, and even moral assessment rules themselves by parametrizing them as continuous traits. I confirm some classical results in the theory of indirect reciprocity but challenge others. Cooperation is easily sustainable, provided reputational views are sufficiently correlated. But when reputations are a matter of private judgment, there are no stable cooperative equilibria at all. Gossip can facilitate a high level of agreement, but echo chambers are difficult to overcome. Crucially, while many assessment rules can facilitate cooperation, almost none of them can actually evolve. The main exception is Stern Judging, which mandates that bad individuals be punished––a rule that is, sadly, highly intolerant of disagreement. I conclude by discussing implications for polarization, moral philosophy, and the discourse. Adaptive dynamics provides a mathematical framework not only for establishing a baseline theory of indirect reciprocity but also for incorporating the foibles and peculiarities of real human societies.

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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

📢 New Paper 🚨 Hadza food-sharing is egalitarian, yet offers in giving games have never matched the equitable redistribution seen in real life. In this study, we allowed people to give *or* take. Lifelike equitable distributions only appeared when people took from peers in surplus. bit.ly/4kvLOwA

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The “I” in egalitarianism: Hadza hunter-gatherers averse to inequality primarily when personally unfavorable

Abstract. Many economists contend that humans have strong, universal, other-regarding equality preferences with deep evolutionary roots. Indeed, many hunte

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 04/02/2026

New preprint! So, what's a multiverse analysis good for anyway?> With @jessicahullman.bsky.social and @statmodeling.bsky.social juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...

What’s a multiverse good for anyway?

Julia M. Rohrer, Jessica Hullman, and Andrew Gelman

Multiverse analysis has become a fairly popular approach, as indicated by the present special issue on the matter. Here, we take one step back and ask why one would conduct a multiverse analysis in the first place. We discuss various ways in which a multiverse may be employed – as a tool for reflection and critique, as a persuasive tool, as a serious inferential tool – as well as potential problems that arise depending on the specific purpose. For example, it fails as a persuasive tool when researchers disagree about which variations should be included in the analysis, and it fails as a serious inferential tool when the included analyses do not target a coherent estimand. Then, we take yet another step back and ask what the multiverse discourse has been good for and whether any broader lessons can be drawn. Ultimately, we conclude that the multiverse does remain a valuable tool; however, we urge against taking it too seriously.

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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

First Cooperation Colloquium of the year: Caroline Graf (University of Zürich): Boosting prosocial behavior through incentives and conditional giving: Experimental evidence from 42 societies Friday, January 30 | 15:00 UCT+1 Vienna / 9:00 ET NYC Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

Abtract: Prosocial behavior is key to addressing global collective-action challenges. Two prominent tools to promote prosociality are incentives and the use of conditional preferences, yet existing evidence is mixed and largely based on WEIRD populations. We study how incentives and conditionality shape prosocial behavior across diverse cultural contexts, and how cultural characteristics moderate these effects. 15,600 participants from 42 countries completed an online experiment in which prosociality was measured as the donation of earned bonus points to international charities (e.g., UNICEF). In the incentive condition, donors received additional points worth half of the donated amount. In the conditionality treatment, participants could condition their donation on the share of other donors in their country. Preregistered analyses show that incentives increase prosocial behavior overall, but that their effectiveness varies across societies. Incentive effects are stronger in societies where the reputational costs of benefiting personally from prosocial acts are lower, that is, where incentivized donors are perceived as relatively more likable. Conditional giving also increases prosocial behavior, yet the effects are larger in societies characterized by a higher prevalence of conditional preferences and stronger generalized fairness concerns. Together, these findings highlight that the effectiveness of behavioral interventions depends systematically on cultural context, underscoring the importance of moving beyond WEIRD samples not only for advancing theory, but also for culturally tailored policy design.

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Christian Hilbe @chilbe.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Yesterday, two papers appeared in @pnas.org, to which I contributed to. Both papers deal with strategic behavior in repeated games. Apart from that, they are quite different. A 🧵 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Depiction of a public good game among two players

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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

We're excited to announce the Spring 2026 Cooperation Colloquia! With @yanchenl.bsky.social @minhuayan.bsky.social @saptarshi.bsky.social @aronszekely.bsky.social @shafenbraedl.bsky.social @shuxianjin.bsky.social @smconstantino.bsky.social and more Sign up here: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

List of speakers:
2026-01-30 | Caroline Graf (University of Zürich)
2026-02-13 | Yan Chen (University of Michigan)
2026-02-27 | Taylor Kessinger (University of Pennsylvania)
2026-03-13 | Manon Schweinfurth (University of St Andrews)
2026-03-27 | Minhua Yan (Institute for Advanced Study Toulouse)
2026-04-10 | Saptarshi Pal (Harvard (University)
2026-04-24 | Aron Szekely (UCL)
2026-05-08 | Sebastian Hafenbrädl (IESE Business School)
2026-05-22 | Shuxian Jin (Peking University & University of Sussex)
2026-06-19 | Sara Constantino (Stanford University)

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Hirotaka Imada @hirotakaimada.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I am also hiring a PhD student (4-years, home student only to join the project, starting in September 2026🌏 Please share it widely! www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...

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Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

🚨Two weeks left to apply for our postdoc positions @tse-fr.eu @iast.fr 🚨 Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social , & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies. Full-time positions, 2 years, no teaching Deadline: Jan 23 Please share and spread the word! www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...

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Hirotaka Imada @hirotakaimada.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I am hiring a 4y postdoc for my Leverhulme-funded project on the role of beliefs about what in/outgroup members believe/do about climate change in shaping pro-climate behaviours🌏 Start date: May 2026 at latest Deadline: Feb 8 Please share it widely! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

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Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Full-Time, Fixed-Term (48 months)Applications are invited for a 4-year, full-time Postdoctoral Research Assistant position in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. The successful candidate will join Dr. Hirotaka...

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Isabel Thielmann @isabel-thielmann.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Why do some people engage in deviant or criminal behavior while others do not? Analyzing 74 personality traits in a large, diverse sample, we show that traits linked to low morality and short-term thinking are especially important for understanding deviance. doi.org/10.1177/0890... (Open Access)

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The dispositional basis of deviance: A multivariate approach to crime and other deviant acts - Isabel Thielmann, Yngwie Asbjørn Nielsen, Jean-Louis van Gelder, 2026

Why some people engage in criminal and other forms of deviant behavior, whereas others do not, has long been a question of interest in the social and behavioral...

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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

🚨 Now out in Psych Science 🚨 We report an adversarial collaboration (with @donandrewmoore.bsky.social) testing whether overconfidence is genuinely a trait The paper was led by Jabin Binnendyk & Sophia Li (who is fantastic and on the job market!) Free copy here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/7JIYS...

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Hirotaka Imada @hirotakaimada.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

In January, I will be recruiting a PhD student (4y/domestic tuition) and a postdoc (4y) to work on a 5y project about the role of beliefs about what in/outgroups value/do/believe in shaping one's climate action. Please keep an eye out for the job advert if you are interested🙏🔥

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 12/12/2025

Keeping this at hand in case I need to point to it and tap

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Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

🚨 Call for abstracts 🚨 Join our EASP pre-conference on 'Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Methods' on June 30, 2026. We invite flash talk submissions from researchers at all career stages. 📝 Deadline: January 5 2026 🔗 More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Call for submissions EASP Pre-Conference on ‘Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Methods’ Deadline: January 5, 2026 Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce the pre-con...

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Qinyu Xiao @qinyuxiao.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The final colloquium of this semester will take place in two hours!

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Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

🚨Two postdoc positions @tse-fr.eu @iast.fr 🚨 We are recruiting two postdocs as part of the ANR-funded project ENFORCE. Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social, & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies. Full time, 2 years, no teaching. Deadline: Jan 23 www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...

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Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨 in @cp-iscience.bsky.social l together with @lukeglowacki.bsky.social, @hannesrusch.bsky.social and Isabel Thielmann: “Untangling altruism and parochialism in human intergroup conflict” doi.org/10.1016/j.is... (1/7)

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Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) @tse-fr.eu · 19/11/2025

Apply now to our next Summer School! 🤝 We are glad to host the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences from 26 May to 19 June 2026 — a great opportunity for PhD students in economics, political science, and other social sciences. Application: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...

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