Simon Gächter

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies(135), Culture, Economy, and Development Studies(49), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(46), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics(36), Social and Intergroup Psychology(19)

Publications198 total

DATA for: AI versus humans as authority figures: Evidence from a rule-compliance experiment
OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints)·2026Open Access
No rest for the weary: Pay uncertainty reduces engagement in recovery.
Journal of Applied Psychology·2025
Group identity and peer effects in rule-following
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization·2025Open Access
Why people follow rules
Nature Human Behaviour·2025· 13 citedOpen Access
The contractual dispute resolution game: Real-effort experiments on contract negotiation and arbitration
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization·2025Open Access
Group Identity and Peer Effects in Rule-Following
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
A Behavioral Analysis of the Role of Group Size and Social Efficiency for One-Shot Voluntary Cooperation
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
Incentives crowd out voluntary cooperation: evidence from gift-exchange experiments
Experimental Economics·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Wherefore art thou competitors? How situational affordances help differentiate among prosociality, individualism, and competition
European Journal of Personality·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Social preferences and the variability of conditional cooperation
Economic Theory·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Author response for "Wherefore art thou competitors? How situational affordances help differentiate among prosociality, individualism, and competition"
2024
Social norms: Enforcement, breakdown & polarization
European Economic Review·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
How to activate threat perceptions in behavior research: A simple technique for inducing health and resource scarcity threats
Behavior Research Methods·2024Open Access
The role of payoff parameters for cooperation in the one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma
European Economic Review·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Author response for "Wherefore art thou competitors? How situational affordances help differentiate among prosociality, individualism, and competition"
2024
Introducing IOS11 as an extended interactive version of the ‘Inclusion of Other in the Self’ scale to estimate relationship closeness
Scientific Reports·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
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SSRN Electronic Journal·2024Open Access
'IOS11': A new, extended, interactive version of the ‘Inclusion of Other in the Self’ scale
2023Open Access
The behavioral mechanisms of voluntary cooperation across culturally diverse societies: Evidence from the US, the UK, Morocco, and Turkey
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization·2023· 7 citedOpen Access
Who discriminates? Evidence from a trust game experiment across three societies
Journal of Economic Psychology·2023· 10 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Ernst Fehr(19), Urs Fischbacher(6), Benedikt Herrmann(5), Christian Thöni(5), Elke Renner(5), Martín Sefton(3), Armin Falk(3), Georg Kirchsteiger(2), Josef Falkinger(2), Rudolf Winter‐Ebmer(2), Chris Starmer(2), Eric J. Johnson(2), Andreas Herrmann(2), Daniele Nosenzo(2), Simone Quercia(2), Jonathan Schulz(1), Erich Kirchler(1), Andreas Weichbold(1), Martin Dufwenberg(1), Heike Hennig‐Schmidt(1)