Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies

The motive cocktail in childrens altruistic behaviors

This study investigates the motivational mechanisms behind children's third-party altruistic behaviors using the motive cocktail model, revealing gender differences in moral aversion and intervention tendencies.

Betrayal is worse than loss during cooperation

The paper investigates betrayal and loss aversion in cooperation, finding betrayal aversion more strongly reduces cooperation than loss aversion, supported by ERP data.

Game structure shapes individuals' norms in collective decision-making

The paper shows that different game structures shape distinct norms and neural mechanisms in collective decision-making.

Computational Resilience in Human Reciprocity: An Asymmetric Intrinsic Prosocial Bias for Sustaining Cooperation under Exogenous Uncertainty

The paper investigates how human cooperation remains resilient under exogenous uncertainty by identifying an asymmetric intrinsic prosocial bias in reciprocal behavior.

Trait anxiety impairs reciprocity behavior: A multi-modal and computational modeling study

This study investigates how trait anxiety affects reciprocity behavior using a trust game, computational modeling, eye-tracking, and ERPs, finding distinct impacts on core and peripheral factors.

Forget and Forgive: A Neurocognitive Mechanism for Increased Cooperation During Group Formation

The paper investigates how group size affects cooperation using a dynamic prisoners dilemma experiment with fMRI, finding that increased cooperation in larger groups results from interactions between prosocial tendencies and memory confidence.

Emotion Dynamics in Reciprocity: Deciphering the Role of Prosocial Emotions in Social Decision-making

This study examines how prosocial emotions influence social decisions in reciprocity using an ultimatum game with 476 participants, identifying subgroup differences in emotional and decision-making patterns.

Affective biases encoded by the central arousal systems dynamically modulate inequality aversion in human interpersonal negotiations

This study shows that affective biases from central arousal systems modulate inequality aversion in human negotiations, with pupil-linked activity encoding proposer reactions that influence decision-making.

Neural basis of common-pool resources exploitation

The paper investigates why people over-exploit common natural resources using neuroimaging and computational modeling, finding that ventral striatal activity modulates behavior differently for common versus private resources.

The hidden cost of receiving favors: A theory of indebtedness

This study develops and validates a conceptual model of indebtedness using a combination of surveys, games, computational modeling, and neuroimaging to understand how perceived intentions influence feelings and reciprocity behavior.

The computation of strategic learning in repeated social competitive interactions: Learning sophistication, reward attractor points and strategic asymmetry

This paper investigates strategic learning in social interactions, showing that sophisticated belief-based learning leads to more accurate beliefs and convergence toward game optimality, influenced by game structure and individual cognitive capacity.

Neural Modulation of Social Distance on Third-Party Punishment

This study investigates how social distance modulates third-party punishment and its neural correlates using fMRI, finding that social distance affects punishment behavior and specific brain regions involved in decision-making and social processing.