Daniele Nosenzo

TL;DR: The authors show that people lie surprisingly little and that a preference for being seen as honest is one of the main motivations for truth-telling in economics, psychology, and sociology, and formalize a wide range of potential explanations for the observed behavior and identify testable predictions that can distinguish between the models.

TL;DR: Investigation of the user acceptability of a contact-tracing app in five countries hit by the COVID-19 pandemic found strong support for the app under both regimes, in all countries, across all subgroups of the population, and irrespective of regional-level CO VID-19 mortality rates.

TL;DR: The authors show that people lie surprisingly little and formalize a wide range of potential explanations for the observed behavior, identify testable predictions that can distinguish between the models and conduct new experiments to do so.

TL;DR: The authors examine the characteristics of effective leaders in a simple leader-follower voluntary contributions game and find that cooperative leaders contribute more than non-cooperative leaders even after controlling for optimism.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the social preferences model provides a parsimonious explanation for the observed peer effect, and are consistent with social norms compliance.