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Associate Professor at Uni Milan-Bicocca. I write about pro-social behaviour.

Milan, Lombardy

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💥Finally out!💥 I'm very proud of this review of economic models trying to explain human social behavior. We make what we think is an important point: Traditional social preferences are not sufficient to explain some empirical regularities, because they are based solely on the

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The military arrives in Bergamo to take the coffins. There’s no more space for them in the hospitals. I’ve never seen anything similar. Poor my country. Show this pic to all the people that keep minimising the situation.

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Exactly one month ago Italy found its first case of #coronavirus . I’ll tell you what happened in only one month. I hope you can learn from our mistakes.

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The message is clear. It’s not just a flu. Stay at home. Don’t let the virus spread exponentially. A small sacrifice today for a huge benefit tomorrow.

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1. In the first two weeks, only 11 towns were locked down. At this stage there were only a few dead a day. Politicians and epidemiologists were fighting on tv. It’s just a flu. No, it’s not just a flu.

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This picture is going to make history. In the deadliest day in Italy since the outbreak, Pope Francis decides to go out and pray alone in Piazza San Pietro. It’s pouring rain and the Pope says: “We are all in the same ship. We cannot make it alone. Only together”.

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5. In the meantime, a lot of people started getting sick in the south of Italy. Today came out a statistics showing that many of these people are the parents and the relatives of those who fled Lombardy the night before the Lombardy lockdown, exactly two weeks ago.

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4. The fourth week, the health system collapsed in some towns in Northern Italy. In Bergamo, you have to wait 7 hours for an ambulance. 87 per cent of people die in their homes, because they don’t make it to the hospital.

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6. Today is one month. And we had a new record of 627 dead in one day. Yesterday it was 487. Also: one supermarket had to close because an employee got sick and in this case one has to close the whole supermarket. This is really bad if starts happening at a large scale. No food.

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But the right-wing populists had the brilliant idea to pass to the media a draft of the law, before it became active. People panicked and tried to leave Lombardy before it became red zone.

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Hospitals are extrafull, there is no space even for the dead. I’m not exaggerating. The military had to come and take the dead away with the trucks.

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2. At the end of the second week, it became clear that the virus had spread across several regions in northern Italy. The dead toll touched 50 a day. The Italian government tried to lock down the whole Lombardy plus several provinces.

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3. Just three days after, the death toll jumped from 50 to 200 a day. A few cases started appearing outside the red zone. The prime minister Conte suddenly announced the total lockdown of Italy.

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Today, we have lost one of the greatest contemporary thinkers. Daniel Kahneman shattered the glass palace of science and became famous worldwide in 2011 with the publication of "Thinking, Fast and Slow”, in which he popularized the dual-process theory. This theory suggests that

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- Some people become more likely to lie when they see a group member lying - The effect is huge: having only one dishonest group member makes the vast majority of these conditional liars switch from being honest to being dishonest

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EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: Single-blind reviewers are significantly more likely than their double-blind counterparts to recommend for acceptance papers from famous authors, top universities, and top companies.

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This story is making all Italians cry This man was connected to a respirator A younger person came to the hospital in critical conditions. But there was no respirator for him This man gave his to the younger person A few minutes later, he died His name is Giuseppe Berardelli

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After one month, we finally have some good news from Italy. The numbers of deaths and new cases both decreased for the second day in a row. Yesterday might have been a random fluctuation. Today seems more like a trend. Let’s hope we continue on this route. Forza Italia ❤️

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Super interesting paper! - when people are observed, they tend to make more deontological judgments than when they are not observed - this suggests that deontological judgments are partly driven by reputation concern.

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Incredibly deep paper: - the replicability crisis in psychology is not only driven by methodological and statistical shortcomings - it's mainly driven by a lack of theoretical frameworks - Psychology needs to be turned into a formal science

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Some good news from Italy. The lockdown seems to be working. The number of new cases reached the maximum during the second week. Now (third week) the new cases are constantly declining. We are on the right track! Forza Italia! 💪

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Giorgio Armani, the great Italian stylist, has just announced that for the whole length of the crisis his factories will produce only whitecoats for doctors and nurses. Of course they will be given for free. What a great man!

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People queueing outside a supermarket in Prato, Italy. I’m sure this will become one of the photos of the century. Globalisation at the time of a pandemic. #COVID ー19 #coronavirus

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MORE GREAT NEWS FOR MTURK - Online recruitment has led to persistent concerns about data quality - MTurkers are as attentive as participants recruited offline - Mturkers buy into experimental social interactions as much as in the lab

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Interesting, but worrying, article shows that the same individuals who act prosocially in standard bilateral economic games rob as much as possible from a large number of victims in a “robber game”. Humans can simultaneously be generous with others and selfish to the masses.

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We’ve published in @PNASNews a global analysis of the relationship between political ideology and generosity. Let me tell you what we’ve found 1/

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Paper accepted in Econometrica analyses 72 studies on honesty and finds: - people lie surprisingly little - none of the popular explanations in literature fit the data - combining preferences for being honest & prefs for being seen as honest fits the data

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It’s now official: I’ll start as an associate professor at the university of Milan-Bicocca on Oct 1. I’m so excited to come back to Italy after 11 years abroad, and to my partner’s hometown. A once-in-a-lifetime alignment of planets!

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Are values around the world converging or diverging? Modernization theories propose that the end of the Cold War and the rise of globalization would facilitate the global spread of a “universal civilization” based on liberal and individualistic values. Yet, alternative theories

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Just to give you an idea of how powerful the coronavirus is, this pic reports the number of deaths per month in Bergamo in the last 10 years. No, it's not just a flu.

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Very cool paper: - Are heuristics & biases limited to small stakes? - the authors (led by rising star @BenjaminEnke ) report experiments in Nairobi with very high stakes - Results: very high stakes do not debias participants, or come even close to doing so

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I’m excited to announce that we’re launching a new series of lectures with some exceptional speakers, including Wändi Bruine de Bruin, @NickJChater @DG_Rand @CBicchieri & @CassSunstein Further info on our website:

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44 doctors died in Italy from #coronavirus and over 5 thousands doctors and nurses are positive. These people are literally sacrificing their life for a miserable salary. I hope at the end of all this we will seriously rethink our society.

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I need to tell you a story. Sorry in advance if this is going to scare you. But it’s important that you read it, to understand where we are going. Both my flatmates are from Bergamo, a small town in the north of Italy, one of most hit by the #coronavirus . Here is the situation.

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Cool paper with @DG_Rand accepted at JDM! - why people cooperate in Prisoner's dilemma and give in Dictator game? - social preferences for equity/efficiency? - No. We find PD/DG prosociality is driven by general moral preferences for doing the right thing

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Very sad news from Spain. Hospitals are collapsing, people are treated on the floor. This drives mortality up. This is why lockdown is important. Show this pic to all the people who keep minimising the situation. It’s not just a flu!

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Oh my God. Just out. 793 new dead in Italy only today! Yesterday it was 627. Two days ago 487. And this is happening despite the total lockdown. 😭😭

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In Italy we’re turning ships into hospitals. We no longer know where to put the sick people. And they keep increasing, in spite of the total lockdown. Tell this to the people that keep saying that it’s just a flu. IT’S NOT JUST A FLU!

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I’ve read @JonHaidt ’s The Anxious Generation. Here’s my review: The central claim of the book is that “overprotection in the real world and underprotection in the virtual world are the major reasons why children born after 1995 are the anxious generation.” The book is divided

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I’m excited to announce that this Wednesday (June 28) at 2:30pm (CET) we will be hosting a lecture by Cass Sunstein ( @CassSunstein ) Title: “Nudges: Past, present, future” The lecture can be followed online at this link:

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🔥Now in press at @PNASNexus 🔥 We provide a state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary overview of generative AI’s potential impacts on (mis)information and three information-intensive domains: work, education, and healthcare. Our goal is to highlight how generative AI could worsen

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Thank you all for your hundreds of messages of love and support since my viral tweet yesterday. Thank you all but one. One is a racist saying the coronavirus outbreak is caused by us Italians who don’t wash our hands. You. You’re such a stupid person. We’re all in this together.

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This young deer is probably seeing the sea for the first time in her life. And she’s enjoying it a lot. Viareggio, Italy. 51st day of lockdown

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One problem with the #coronavirus is that people don't understand exponential growth. I'll explain it simply: Day - Total number of deaths in Italy 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 7 5 11 10 41 15 197 20 827 25 2,158 30 4,825 Understood?

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- people anticipate how their moral judgments affect perceivers' ratings of their warmth and competence - people strategically shift public (but not private) judgments to present themselves as warm or competent depending on which trait the situation favors

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SUPER INTERESTING! - similarity between inequality in nature and society - chance alone drive 1% of the individuals to control 50% of the resources - mechanism: random fluctuations in gains/losses (stocks, weather, etc) blow up to create extreme inequality

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In this piece for @NatComputSci , @matjazperc and I discuss a super cool work by @anzhisheng_1002 , @QiSu_1991 , Long Wang, and @jplotkin . This article introduces a framework for studying the evolution of cooperation in higher-order networks. Higher-order networks differ from

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Very good news from Italy. The number of deaths is decreasing (+525 today compared to +900 at the peak). The route is still long, but we’re on the right track. I hope the other countries will get on the same track too. It’s so sad to see the numbers in Spain, US, France, UK...

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A paper I'm really proud of: Simple moral nudges increase prosociality, persist over time and spill across contexts.

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We're excited to share our new article on the impacts of generative AI on socioeconomic inequalities on work, education, health, and information, including the limits of current regulatory approaches and specific policy recommendations. Preprint: 🧵below

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Oh my God, 969 people died in Italy today. New record. 30 per cent more than any other day before. And despite we’re at the 16th day of lockdown. When is this going to end? How can we make this end?

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It’s strange to share good news during this difficult time but Ive just signed a contract for my first book. It’s on social conflicts: violence against women, immigration, political divide, fake news. It will initially be in Italian. But who knows maybe one day will be translated

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Super interesting: - anthropology shows 85% of societies were polygamous - So, why modern societies are monogamous? - Monogamy decreases unmarried men -> less crime - Monogamy increases parental investment - So monogamy has social benefits -> becomes norm

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Super interesting paper: People misremember the extent of their selfishness, recalling being more generous than they actually were, in order to preserve their moral self-image.

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Some new data just came out in Italy. I would like to briefly tell you about them because I think they are very important. Zogno is a small town near Bergamo. In the last month, 70 people died. Last year, in the same period, only 18 people died. 1/5

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This picture is viral in Italy. It’s the emergency room of an hospital in Bergamo. Empty for the first time after one month and a half. The nightmare seems to be over. 💪❤️

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Another terrible news. Italy coronavirus death toll overtake China. In spite of the fact that the population is 1/20. The world needs to take #COVID19 much more seriously than it is currently doing. Otherwise we will count hundreds of thousands of casualties. It’s not just a flu!

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This is the price of not doing a lockdown. All the governments in the world should think about this. 100 million people have a clock ticking on their head. Shall we stop it, or not?

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Terrible news: Professors who believe that intelligence and ability are fixed inspire less students and, more critically, have larger racial grade gaps in their classes.

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Albania’s PM Edi Rama just sent us 30 doctors and gave a very moving speech entirely in Italian: he says he’s reciprocating the help we gave accepting Albanian refugees 20 years ago. This is a great lesson to Europe and to the world: global problems require global cooperation.

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Please, you can still avoid this, learn from our mistakes, take this seriously, stay at home, wash your hands, practice social distance. I know that’s a sacrifice. But it’s a small sacrifice, compared to the huge benefit for you, your loved ones, and the society as a whole.

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Nature paper explores the evolution of cooperation when the public resource changes over time such that defection decreases the resource while cooperation increases it. Striking result: this mechanism favors cooperation, but only if paired with reciprocity

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We argue that behavioral economics is in the midst of a paradigm shift towards language-based preferences, which will require an exploration of new models and experimental setups. In press at the Journal of Economic Literature Full article:

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Extremely cool PNAS paper: - people program their autonomous cars to be more cooperative than they would if driving themselves - This happens because programming machines causes selfish short-term rewards to become less salient

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Hi there! I wrote a review on promoting cooperative behavior for the benefit of individuals and societies, covering research in both iterated and one-shot games. I hope you'll find it useful! Thank you so much for your interest. You can download it here:

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Good news from Italy! Dr Ranieri discovered a way to connect multiple patients to the same ventilator. This is going to save hundreds of lives. One huge problem we have is indeed that there are far more people needing a ventilator than actual ventilators. #CoronaVirusUpdate

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It's been a long but very worthwhile journey. I'm excited to share that my review and meta-analysis on the dual process approach to human sociality has been accepted at JPSP. I hope you'll find it interesting and useful for your research. Paper:

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Lockdown in Italy.

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In this paper accepted at PSPB, @TatianaCeladin and I introduce an intervention that decreases sharing of fake news and increases sharing of real news The preprint is available at Below is a short summary 1/

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New paper just accepted @NatureComms explores the impact of 11 climate interventions in 60 countries. At baseline, liberals typically believe in climate change and support climate policies more than conservatives. Yet, both groups participated equally in a tree planting task.

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💥New perspective!💥 In this article, we make what we believe are three important points: 1. We review a growing body of literature showing that human behavior in economic games is not solely dependent on the economic consequences of available actions but also on the linguistic

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PNAS paper introduces the Refugee Game - Citizens less likely to help refugees when helping is costly - Prosocial citizens more likely than proself to help, when helping is costly - Helping increases when it prevents a loss vs generates a gain for refugees

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- New @Nature paper studies the evolution of cooperation among unequals - Extreme inequality prevents cooperation - If subjects differ in productivity, some endowment inequality can be necessary for cooperation By Hauser @chilbe3 Chatterjee @DrMANowak

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The root of the cooperation gap between Southern and Northern Italy - Northerners and Southerners have the same social preferences - Southerners are more pessimistic about other's cooperativeness - Southerners are more risk averse

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My new paper with @Ben_Tappin : - Dictator game altruism is not driven by inequity aversion, but by non-consequentialist morality preferences - Preferences for doing the right thing are as potent as preferences for avoiding doing the wrong thing

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I'm excited to be joining the @PNASNexus board of reviewing editors. I'm looking forward to contributing to select high-quality research with broad and multidisciplinary appeal for the category "social and political sciences".

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Studies using deception are more likely to not replicate. #ICPS19

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Super interesting paper! - It is known that public information favors cooperation by indirect reciprocity - But, in reality, info is often noisy & private - The authors find that, in this context, most coop strategies cease to be stable and coop rates drop

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Trump is crazy. He wants to reopen the businesses and the argument is that thousands of people might commit suicide if they lose their job. He's not considering that ONE MILLION people might die if coronavirus spreads without control. Learn from Italy, learn from our mistakes.

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Impressive work compares large-scale nudge interventions in the field with lab experiments using the same nudge Lab experiments give an effect of 8.7 percentage points Nudge interventions only 1.4 percentage points Gap mainly due to publication bias

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On April 19, 1995, in Pittsburgh, a middle-aged man robbed two banks. He did not hide his face and committed both robberies regardless of the surveillance cameras. McArthur Wheeler was arrested a few hours later. When the police confronted him with the surveillance footage,

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@ValerioCapraro

4 years

A heart in Tuscany. I so would like to do the quarantine here.

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Valerio Capraro

@ValerioCapraro

6 years

New paper! - Are deontologists more prosocial than consequentialists? - We measure moral judgm using Trapdoor dilemma, and prosociality with Trust and Dictator game - Result: deonts perceived more prosocial than consequentialists, but they are actually not

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Valerio Capraro

@ValerioCapraro

5 years

Here's a new model of human cooperation: - we assume that people believe that their mental states are visible to other players or to God (illusion of transparency) - we show that we can recover many empirical regularities observed in economic games

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Valerio Capraro

@ValerioCapraro

6 years

GREAT NEWS FOR MTURK - Big limitation of MTurk: difficult to run interactive experiments - New study explores repeated Public Goods game with and without punishment - Found same pattern as in lab exp - Data quality for interactive exp adequate and reliable

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Valerio Capraro

@ValerioCapraro

4 years

Important paper: - Risk attitudes are related to risk behaviour in the lab - Risk attitudes and risk behaviour in the lab are *not* related to risk behaviour in the field - This call into question the methods currently used to measure risk preferences

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Valerio Capraro

@ValerioCapraro

7 years

Most Mturkers misreport their demographics to meet eligibility criteria inferred by previous studies.

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Valerio Capraro

@ValerioCapraro

5 years

Huge meta-analysis on lying (565 experiments, 40.000+ observations): - men lie more than women - younger people lie more than older people - greater rewards lead to more lying - externalities do not affect lying

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Valerio Capraro

@ValerioCapraro

5 months

📢 Exciting opportunity! I'm editing a special issue on Social Behaviour and Interaction for @SciReports We're seeking research articles on cooperation, competition, fairness, and other social behaviours Have relevant work? Consider publishing with us! For submission details

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Valerio Capraro

@ValerioCapraro

6 years

Cool PNAS paper proposes a new mechanism for the evolution of cooperation. The interesting feature of this mechanism is that it does not require external funding.

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Endogenous rewards promote cooperation | PNAS

Sustaining cooperation in social dilemmas is a fundamental objective in the social and biological sciences. Although providing a punishment option ...

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Valerio Capraro

@ValerioCapraro

5 years

Super interesting paper! - Preschool makes children more egalitarian - the effect is causal. (in press at Journal of Political Economy)

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Valerio Capraro

@ValerioCapraro

5 months

💥Finally out💥 Here's a 2-min overview of the article I've reviewed and meta-analysed the existing research testing whether intuitive and deliberative processes affect social decisions I've found several results. The two key results are the following:

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Valerio Capraro

@ValerioCapraro

5 years

Seven moral rules appear to be universal across societies: - help your family - help your group - return favors - be brave - defer to superiors - divide resources fairly - respect other’s property These rules serve to promote cooperation

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Valerio Capraro

@ValerioCapraro

4 years

100 million deaths means that virtually everyone in the planet will lose a loved one. It could be one of your grandparents. Or one of your parents. It could even be yourself.

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Valerio Capraro

@ValerioCapraro

4 years

Online teaching is fine for now. But in general I think it's a very bad idea. Students need to go to school, because they need to socialise. School is not just a school, it's the place where you meet some of the most important people of you life (friends, romantic partners...)

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Valerio Capraro

@ValerioCapraro

6 years

Paper accepted! - We study gender differences in altruism on Mechanical Turk - Study 1 (N>3,500) finds women are more altruistic than men - Study 2 (N=987) finds women are expected to be more altruistic than men With @BehSnaps & Ericka Rascón.

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Valerio Capraro

@ValerioCapraro

5 years

What makes a tweet viral? Super cool new study shows that emotional and moral words capture visual attention and such an attentional capture is associated with increased retweets. In press at JEP:G. By @william__brady @ana_gram_ @jayvanbavel Preprint:

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Valerio Capraro

@ValerioCapraro

3 months

🔥New preprint🔥 We've conducted a large, preregistered experiment aimed at comparing the effectiveness of seven message-based nudges designed to combat hate speech on social media. Participants scrolled through 14 posts containing various degrees of hate speech on a platform

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Valerio Capraro

@ValerioCapraro

4 years

Something really bad is happening in Italy. People are starting robbing supermarkets, because they have no more money. This is why it's important to help the most vulnerable people, especially in these difficult times. This should be done NOW. Not in two months.

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Valerio Capraro

@ValerioCapraro

5 years

- asking people “what’s the right thing to do?”, prior to making a decision, increases altruism and cooperation not only only in the lab: - crowdsourcing of charitable donations increase by 44%

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