Refereed Papers
“Sympathy, Punishment, and Adam Smith. An Experimental Look” with Vernon Smith, Bart Wilson, and Lucas Rentschler (Provisionally Accepted by Public Choice)
“Behind the Veil of Ambiguity: Decision-Making under Social and Non-Social Sources of Uncertainty.” with Nina Lauharatanahirun and J. Braxton Gately (Revision Requested by Risk Analysis)
“The effects of task difficulty and presentation format on eye movements in risky choice” with Xiaomeng Zhang, Abdelaziz Alsharawy, Flora Li, Sheryl Ball, and Alec Smith (Revision Requested by Frontiers of Behavioral Economics)
“Risk attitudes and probability biases modulate neural correlates of variance processing in adolescents” with Nina Lauharatanahirun, Sheryl Ball, Jungmeen Kim-Spoon, and Brooks King-Casas (Resubmission Requested by Nature Communications – reject/resubmit)
2023 “Prosecutor Plea Bargaining and Conviction Rate Structure: Evidence from an Experiment” with Charles North, Jason Ralston, and Lucas Rentschler. Published Online/Forthcoming in Public Choice.
2023 “An Experimental Exploration of Reasonable Doubt” with Stanton Hudja, Wilson Law, Charles North, Jason Ralston, and Lucas Rentschler. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 212, p. 873-886.
2022 “My Risk or Our Risk: Signaling in a Delegated Risk-Taking Experiment” with Xiaofei Pan. Journal of Behavioral Finance, 1-17.
2022 “Vaccine hesitancy and betrayal aversion.” with Abdelaziz Alsharawy, Esha Dwibedi, and Sheryl Ball. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, p. 1-11.
2021 “The Aspirational Income Hypothesis: On the Limits of the Relative Income Hypothesis” with Elias Kahil, Daniel Houser, Siyu Wang, and Deborah Martinez. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 182, p. 229-247.
2020 “Blameable and imperfect: A study of risk-taking and accountability” with Xiaofei Pan. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 172, p. 196-216.
2020 “Dishonest Behavior: Sin Big or Go Home” with Brittany Ward and James West. Economics Letters 186,108779
2019 “Priming the Jury by Asking for Donations: An Empirical and Experimental Study” with Lucas Rentschler and Charles North. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 160, 158-167
2018 “Altruistic Punishment in Elections” with Thomas Stratmann and Luigi Butera. European Journal of Political Economy
2017 “Valuation in major depression is intact and stable in a non-learning environment” with Dongil Chung, Kelly Kadlec, Katherine McCurry, Brooks King-Casas, and Pearl Chiu. Scientific Reports 7:44374
2016 “It’s Not What You See but How You See It: Using Eye-Tracking to Study the Risky Decision-Making Process” with Sheryl Ball and Brooks King-Casas. Journal of Neuroscience Psychology and Economics 9(3&4) 137-144.
2016 “‘Nudging’ Risky Decision-Making: How Modifying Information Order Influences Decision-Making under Risk” with Sheryl Ball and Brooks King-Casas. Economics Letters, 149, 161-163.
2015 “The Betrayal Aversion Elicitation Task: An Individual Level Betrayal Aversion Measure” with Brooks King-Casas and Sheryl Ball PLoS ONE, 10(9): e0137491. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0137491
2014 “Neural Signatures of Betrayal Aversion: an fMRI Study of Trust” with Daniel Houser and Bernd Weber (Proceedings of the Royal Society B)
2013 “Endogenous Group Formation Through‘Sacrificial’ Costs” (with Mike Makowsky, Jared Rubin, and Laurence Iannaccone) Review of Economic Studies 80, 1215-1236
2013 "Harnessing the Benefits of Betrayal Aversion" (with Daniel Houser) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 89, 1-8
2013 “High Stakes Behavior with Low Payoffs: Inducing Preferences with Holt-Laury Gambles” (with John Dickhaut, Daniel Houser, Dorina Tila, and Cathleen Johnson) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 94, 183-189
2012 "What You Don't Know Won't Hurt Your: A Laboratory Analysis of Betrayal Aversion", with Daniel Houser. Experimental Economics doi: 10.1007/s10683-012-9314-z.
2011 "Beneficial Betrayal Aversion," with Daniel Houser. PLoS ONE 6(3): e17725. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017725
Book Chapters/Other Academic Publications
2022 “Austrian Critiques of Behavioral Economics: Common Misconceptions and Low-Hanging Fruit.” In Contemporary Methods and Austrian Economics. Emerald Publishing Limited.
2021 “Trust and Risk: Neuroeconomic Foundations of Trust Based on Social Risk” with Nina Nina Lauharatanahirun. In The Neurobiology of Trust. Cambridge University Press.
2021 “Texas lawmakers should pass bill to make jurors less biased.” The Center Square. May 19, 2021
2020 “Social Distance vs Social Distancing” TX CEO Magazine, Vol 2., Online: March 26, 2020 Print: April, 2020.
2019 “Soliciting donations from jurors can bias criminal court verdicts” with Lucas Rentschler. In The Washington Examiner August 31, 2019
2016 “Neuroeconomics: A Flourishing Field” with Daniel Houser. In The Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology (Forthcoming). Edited by John Komlos and Inas Rashad Kelly. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199389292.013.1
2015 “Some Rules for Behavioural Science” Nature (Correspondence) 526, 323 doi:10.1038/526323e
Working Papers
Experimental and Behavioral Economics
“CEO and Academic Mismatch” with Stanton Hudja and Blaine McCormick
“Gender Differences in Preferences For Criminal Justice Error Types: An Experiment” with Stanton Hudja, Charles North, Jason Ralston, Lucas Rentschler, and Siyu Wang
“Betrayal Aversion and Emotion Reappraisal: The Case of Vaccines” with Sheryl Ball, Esha Dwibedi, and Abdelaziz Alsharawy
“Betrayal Aversion and Political Science” with Pervesh Anthwal, J. Braxton Gately, and Sheryl Ball
“Poverty, Habit, and Their Consequences” with Jason Ralston, Sheryl Ball, and Alec Smith
"Macro-level institutions and micro-level economic behavior: A surprising meta-meta analysis of 1259 experimental studies " with Sheryl Ball, Esha Dwibedi, Jeremy J. Jackson, and James E. West
“False confessions: An experimental laboratory study of the innocence problem” with Charles North, Jason Ralston, and Lucas Rentschler
“Bias, Trust, and Trustworthiness: An Experimental Study of Post Justice System Outcomes” with Charles North, Jason Ralston, and Lucas Rentschler
“Dynamics of Public Goods Contributions Under Probabilistic Punishment” with Charles North, Jason Ralston, and Lucas Rentschler
“Plotting Prevenge: Punishment Strategies in a Public Goods Environment” with Charles North, Amanda Short, Jason Ralston, and Lucas Rentschler
“Identifying an Individual’s Warm Glow and Altruistic Motives to Give” with Rebecca Peirce and Lucas Rentschler
“Safety Product Betrayal Aversion Decreases With Experience: A Replication and Extension” with Sheryl Ball, Sakshi Upadhyay, Connor Brown, and Peter Coiley
“Smithian Disapprobation and Betrayal Aversion” with Sheryl Ball
“Hidden Cost of Control under Aligned Monetary Interests” with Luigi Butera
“Anxiety, Risk Preferences, Betrayal Aversion, and the Growth of Interpersonal Trust” with Brooks King-Casas and Sheryl Ball
“An Empirical Test of the Heckman and Rubinstein Mixed - GED Signal: Evidence From
Prison” with Emily Gutierrez
Neuroeconomics
“Behind the Veil of Ambiguity: Decision-Making under Social and Non-Social Sources of Uncertainty.” With Nina Lauharatanahirun and J. Braxton Gately
“Neural substrates of interpersonal dysfunction in PTSD: Trust without reward” with Wright Williams, David Graham, Chris Frueh, Pearl Chiu, and Brooks King-Casas
“Sympathy, Punishment, and Adam Smith. An Experimental Look” with Vernon Smith, Bart Wilson, and Lucas Rentschler (Provisionally Accepted by Public Choice)
“Behind the Veil of Ambiguity: Decision-Making under Social and Non-Social Sources of Uncertainty.” with Nina Lauharatanahirun and J. Braxton Gately (Revision Requested by Risk Analysis)
“The effects of task difficulty and presentation format on eye movements in risky choice” with Xiaomeng Zhang, Abdelaziz Alsharawy, Flora Li, Sheryl Ball, and Alec Smith (Revision Requested by Frontiers of Behavioral Economics)
“Risk attitudes and probability biases modulate neural correlates of variance processing in adolescents” with Nina Lauharatanahirun, Sheryl Ball, Jungmeen Kim-Spoon, and Brooks King-Casas (Resubmission Requested by Nature Communications – reject/resubmit)
2023 “Prosecutor Plea Bargaining and Conviction Rate Structure: Evidence from an Experiment” with Charles North, Jason Ralston, and Lucas Rentschler. Published Online/Forthcoming in Public Choice.
2023 “An Experimental Exploration of Reasonable Doubt” with Stanton Hudja, Wilson Law, Charles North, Jason Ralston, and Lucas Rentschler. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 212, p. 873-886.
2022 “My Risk or Our Risk: Signaling in a Delegated Risk-Taking Experiment” with Xiaofei Pan. Journal of Behavioral Finance, 1-17.
2022 “Vaccine hesitancy and betrayal aversion.” with Abdelaziz Alsharawy, Esha Dwibedi, and Sheryl Ball. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, p. 1-11.
2021 “The Aspirational Income Hypothesis: On the Limits of the Relative Income Hypothesis” with Elias Kahil, Daniel Houser, Siyu Wang, and Deborah Martinez. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 182, p. 229-247.
2020 “Blameable and imperfect: A study of risk-taking and accountability” with Xiaofei Pan. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 172, p. 196-216.
2020 “Dishonest Behavior: Sin Big or Go Home” with Brittany Ward and James West. Economics Letters 186,108779
2019 “Priming the Jury by Asking for Donations: An Empirical and Experimental Study” with Lucas Rentschler and Charles North. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 160, 158-167
2018 “Altruistic Punishment in Elections” with Thomas Stratmann and Luigi Butera. European Journal of Political Economy
2017 “Valuation in major depression is intact and stable in a non-learning environment” with Dongil Chung, Kelly Kadlec, Katherine McCurry, Brooks King-Casas, and Pearl Chiu. Scientific Reports 7:44374
2016 “It’s Not What You See but How You See It: Using Eye-Tracking to Study the Risky Decision-Making Process” with Sheryl Ball and Brooks King-Casas. Journal of Neuroscience Psychology and Economics 9(3&4) 137-144.
2016 “‘Nudging’ Risky Decision-Making: How Modifying Information Order Influences Decision-Making under Risk” with Sheryl Ball and Brooks King-Casas. Economics Letters, 149, 161-163.
2015 “The Betrayal Aversion Elicitation Task: An Individual Level Betrayal Aversion Measure” with Brooks King-Casas and Sheryl Ball PLoS ONE, 10(9): e0137491. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0137491
2014 “Neural Signatures of Betrayal Aversion: an fMRI Study of Trust” with Daniel Houser and Bernd Weber (Proceedings of the Royal Society B)
2013 “Endogenous Group Formation Through‘Sacrificial’ Costs” (with Mike Makowsky, Jared Rubin, and Laurence Iannaccone) Review of Economic Studies 80, 1215-1236
2013 "Harnessing the Benefits of Betrayal Aversion" (with Daniel Houser) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 89, 1-8
2013 “High Stakes Behavior with Low Payoffs: Inducing Preferences with Holt-Laury Gambles” (with John Dickhaut, Daniel Houser, Dorina Tila, and Cathleen Johnson) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 94, 183-189
2012 "What You Don't Know Won't Hurt Your: A Laboratory Analysis of Betrayal Aversion", with Daniel Houser. Experimental Economics doi: 10.1007/s10683-012-9314-z.
2011 "Beneficial Betrayal Aversion," with Daniel Houser. PLoS ONE 6(3): e17725. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017725
Book Chapters/Other Academic Publications
2022 “Austrian Critiques of Behavioral Economics: Common Misconceptions and Low-Hanging Fruit.” In Contemporary Methods and Austrian Economics. Emerald Publishing Limited.
2021 “Trust and Risk: Neuroeconomic Foundations of Trust Based on Social Risk” with Nina Nina Lauharatanahirun. In The Neurobiology of Trust. Cambridge University Press.
2021 “Texas lawmakers should pass bill to make jurors less biased.” The Center Square. May 19, 2021
2020 “Social Distance vs Social Distancing” TX CEO Magazine, Vol 2., Online: March 26, 2020 Print: April, 2020.
2019 “Soliciting donations from jurors can bias criminal court verdicts” with Lucas Rentschler. In The Washington Examiner August 31, 2019
2016 “Neuroeconomics: A Flourishing Field” with Daniel Houser. In The Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology (Forthcoming). Edited by John Komlos and Inas Rashad Kelly. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199389292.013.1
2015 “Some Rules for Behavioural Science” Nature (Correspondence) 526, 323 doi:10.1038/526323e
Working Papers
Experimental and Behavioral Economics
“CEO and Academic Mismatch” with Stanton Hudja and Blaine McCormick
“Gender Differences in Preferences For Criminal Justice Error Types: An Experiment” with Stanton Hudja, Charles North, Jason Ralston, Lucas Rentschler, and Siyu Wang
“Betrayal Aversion and Emotion Reappraisal: The Case of Vaccines” with Sheryl Ball, Esha Dwibedi, and Abdelaziz Alsharawy
“Betrayal Aversion and Political Science” with Pervesh Anthwal, J. Braxton Gately, and Sheryl Ball
“Poverty, Habit, and Their Consequences” with Jason Ralston, Sheryl Ball, and Alec Smith
"Macro-level institutions and micro-level economic behavior: A surprising meta-meta analysis of 1259 experimental studies " with Sheryl Ball, Esha Dwibedi, Jeremy J. Jackson, and James E. West
“False confessions: An experimental laboratory study of the innocence problem” with Charles North, Jason Ralston, and Lucas Rentschler
“Bias, Trust, and Trustworthiness: An Experimental Study of Post Justice System Outcomes” with Charles North, Jason Ralston, and Lucas Rentschler
“Dynamics of Public Goods Contributions Under Probabilistic Punishment” with Charles North, Jason Ralston, and Lucas Rentschler
“Plotting Prevenge: Punishment Strategies in a Public Goods Environment” with Charles North, Amanda Short, Jason Ralston, and Lucas Rentschler
“Identifying an Individual’s Warm Glow and Altruistic Motives to Give” with Rebecca Peirce and Lucas Rentschler
“Safety Product Betrayal Aversion Decreases With Experience: A Replication and Extension” with Sheryl Ball, Sakshi Upadhyay, Connor Brown, and Peter Coiley
“Smithian Disapprobation and Betrayal Aversion” with Sheryl Ball
“Hidden Cost of Control under Aligned Monetary Interests” with Luigi Butera
“Anxiety, Risk Preferences, Betrayal Aversion, and the Growth of Interpersonal Trust” with Brooks King-Casas and Sheryl Ball
“An Empirical Test of the Heckman and Rubinstein Mixed - GED Signal: Evidence From
Prison” with Emily Gutierrez
Neuroeconomics
“Behind the Veil of Ambiguity: Decision-Making under Social and Non-Social Sources of Uncertainty.” With Nina Lauharatanahirun and J. Braxton Gately
“Neural substrates of interpersonal dysfunction in PTSD: Trust without reward” with Wright Williams, David Graham, Chris Frueh, Pearl Chiu, and Brooks King-Casas