Below you may find selected research articles from Economics faculty in the Argyros College of Business and Economics.

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Submissions from 2024

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Simulating the Global Effect of Transformative AI: Growth, Welfare, Economic Power, and Policy Responses, Seth Gordon Benzell and Victor Yifan Ye

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Ordinaries 14: Biological Economics, Terence C. Burnham and Jay Phelan

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Polarization in Multidisciplinary Perspective, Eugen Dimant and Erik O. Kimbrough

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Inflation's Historical Presidential Election Impact, Jim Doti and Tom Campbell

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On the Stability of Norms and Norm-following Propensity: A Cross-cultural Panel Study with Adolescents, Erik O. Kimbrough, Erin L. Krupka, Rajnish Kumar, Jennifer M. Murray, Abhijit Ramalingam, Sharon Sánchez‑Franco, Olga L. Sarmiento, Frank Kee, and Ruth F. Hunter

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Cultural Evolution: A Review of Theoretical Challenges, Ryan Nichols, Mathieu Charbonneau, Azita Chellappoo, Taylor Davis, Miriam Haidle, Erik O. Kimbrough, Henrike Moll, Richard Moore, Thom Scott-Phillips, Benjamin Grant Purzycki, and Jose Segovia-Martin

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Measuring Norm Pluralism and Perceived Polarization in US Politics, Folca Panizza, Eugen Dimant, Erik O. Kimbrough, and Alexander Vostroknutov

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Course-Skill Atlas: A National Longitudinal Dataset of Skills Taught in U.S. Higher Education Curricula, Alireza Javadian Sabet, Sarah H. Bana, Renzhe Yu, and Morgan R. Frank

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Review of The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society, Vernon L. Smith

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The Economic Function of Inflation Is to Lower the Real Value of Wealth Assets Sufficiently to Pay for the Government’s Excess Spending Monetized by the Federal Reserve, Vernon L. Smith

Submissions from 2023

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Evaluating Antitrust Remedies for Platform Monopolies: The Case of Facebook, Seth G. Benzell and Felix B. Chang

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Martha C. Nussbaum, Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility, Terence C. Burnham

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Connecting Higher Education to Workplace Activities and Earnings, Hung Chau, Sarah H. Bana, Baptiste Bouvier, and Morgan R. Frank

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The Impact of Vaccinations and Chronic Disease on COVID Death Rates, James L. Doti

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God Games: An Experimental Study of Uncertainty, Superstition, and Cooperation, Aidin Hajikhameneh and Laurence R. Iannaccone

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Selection Homophily and Peer Influence for Adolescents’ Smoking and Vaping Norms and Outcomes in High and Middle-Income Settings, Jennifer M. Murray, Sharon Sánchez-Franco, Olga L. Sarmiento, Erik O. Kimbrough, Christopher Tate, Shannon C. Montgomery, Rajnish Kumar, Laura Dunne, Abhijit Ramalingam, Erin L. Krupka, Felipe Montes, Huiyu Zhou, Laurence Moore, Linda Bauld, Blanca Llorente, Frank Kee, and Ruth F. Hunter

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Crossing the Line: Evidence for the Categorization Theory of Spatial Voting, Mark Pickup, Erik O. Kimbrough, and Eline A. de Rooij

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Ecosystem-level Analysis of Deployed Machine Learning Reveals Homogeneous Outcomes, Connor Toups, Rishi Bommasani, Kathleen A. Creel, Sarah H. Bana, Dan Jurafsky, and Percy Liang

Submissions from 2022

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Optimal Patent Licensing—Two or Three-Part Tariff, Swapnendu Banerjee, Arijit Mukherjee, and Sougata Poddar

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How APIs Create Growth by Inverting the Firm, Seth G. Benzell, Jonathan Hersh, and Marshall Van Alstyne

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Ordinaries 10, Terence C. Burnham and Jay Phelan

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Ordinaries 9: How to Write a Biological Economics Article, Terence C. Burnham and Jay Phelan

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Explainable AI Helps Bridge the AI Skills Gap: Evidence from a Large Bank, Selina Carter and Jonathan Hersh

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How Norms Shape the Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics, Erik Groenendyk, Erik O. Kimbrough, and Mark Pickup

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Car Accidents, Smartphone Adoption and 3G Coverage, Jonathan Hersh, Bree J. Lang, and Matthew Lang

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The Symbolic Work of Prices, Akash Miharia, Jan Osborn, and Bart J. Wilson

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Hybrid U-Net: Semantic Segmentation of High-Resolution Satellite Images to Detect War Destruction, Shima Nabiee, Matthew Harding, Jonathan Hersh, and Nader Bagherzadeh

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Coping with Defeat: Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, and the Modern State. Jonathan Laurence (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021). Pp. 606. $35.00 paper. ISBN: 9780691172125, Jared Rubin

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The Personality and Cognitive Traits Associated with Adolescents’ Sensitivity to Social Norms, Christopher Tate, Rajnish Kumar, Jennifer M. Murray, Sharon Sanchez-Franco, Olga L. Sarmiento, Shannon C. Montgomery, Huiyu Zhou, Abhijit Ramalingam, Erin Krupka, Erik Kimbrough, Frank Kee, and Ruth F. Hunter

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Internet Governance Through Site Shutdowns: The Impact of Shutting Down Two Major Commercial Sex Advertising Sites, Helen Shuxuan Zeng, Brett Danaher, and Michael D. Smith

Submissions from 2021

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The Efficiency of U.S. Public Space Utilization During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Seth G. Benzell, Avinash Collis, and Christos Nicolaides

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A Network of Thrones: Kinship and Conflict in Europe, 1495–1918, Seth G. Benzell and Kevin Cooke

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The Landscape of Innovation in Bacteria, Battleships, and Beyond, Terence C. Burnham and Michael Travisano

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Benefit-Cost Analysis of COVID-19 Policy Intervention at the State and National Level, James L. Doti

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Examining the Impact of Socioeconomic Variables on COVID-19 Death Rates at the State Level, James L. Doti

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The Impact of Vaccinations on COVID-19 Case Rates at the State Level, James L. Doti

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The Cultural Transmission of Trust Norms: Evidence from a Lab in the Field on a Natural Experiment, Elira Karaja and Jared Rubin

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Infanticide and Human Self Domestication, Erik O. Kimbrough, Gordon M. Myers, and Arthur J. Robson

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Monitoring War Destruction from Space Using Machine Learning, Hannes Mueller, Andre Groeger, Jonathan Hersh, Andrea Matranga, and Joan Serrat

Submissions from 2020

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Spreading Like Wildfire: Luther’s Network and the Early Reformation, Sascha O. Becker, Yuan Hsiao, Steven Pfaff, and Jared Rubin

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Recent Insights on the Role of Religion in Economic History, Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, and Ludger Woessmann

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Rationing Social Contact During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Transmission Risk and Social Benefits of US Locations, Seth G. Benzell, Avinash Collis, and Christos Nicolaides

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Understanding and Addressing the Modern Productivity Paradox, Erik Brynjolfsson, Seth Benzell, and Daniel Rock

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The Effect of Piracy Website Blocking on Consumer Behavior, Brett Danaher, Jonathan Hersh, Michael D. Smith, and Rahul Telang

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A Model to Explain Statewide Differences in COVID-19 Death Rates, James L. Doti

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Opportunity Cost, Inattention and the Bidder's Curse, David J. Freeman, Erik O. Kimbrough, and J. Philipp Reiss

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Open Data for Algorithms: Mapping Poverty in Belize Using Open Satellite Derived Features and Machine Learning, Jonathan Hersh, Ryan Engstrom, and Michael Mann

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Interdependence and the Cost of Uncoordinated Responses to COVID-19, David Holtz, Michael Zhao, Seth G. Benzell, Cathy Y. Cao, Mohammad Amin Rahimian, Jeremy Yang, Jennifer Allen, Avinash Collis, Alex Moehring, Tara Sowrirajan, Dipayan Ghosh, Yunhao Zhang, Paramveer S. Dhillon, Christos Nicolaides, Dean Eckles, and Sinan Aral

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MECHANISMS Study: Using Game Theory to Assess the Effects of Social Norms and Social Networks on Adolescent Smoking in Schools—Study Protocol, Ruth F. Hunter, Felipe Montes, Jennifer M. Murray, Sharon C. Sanchez-Franco, Shannon C. Montgomery, Joaquín Jaramillo, Christopher Tate, Rajnish Kumar, Laura Dunne, Abhijit Ramalingam, Erik O. Kimbrough, Erin Krupka, Huiyu Zhou, Laurence Moore, Linda Bauld, Blanca Llorente, Olga L. Sarmiento, and Frank Kee

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Confirmatory Factor Analysis Comparing Incentivized Experiments With Self‑Report Methods to Elicit Adolescent Smoking and Vaping Social Norms, Jennifer M. Murray, Erik O. Kimbrough, Erin Krupka, Abhijit Ramalingam, Rajnish Kumar, Joanna McHugh Power, Sharon Sanchez-Franco, Olga L. Sarmiento, Frank Kee, and Ruth F. Hunter

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Technology Transfer in Spatial Competition when Licensees are Asymmetric, Sougata Poddar, Swapnendu Banerjee, and Monalisa Ghosh

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Introduction to the Special Issue on the Economics of Religion, Jared Rubin

Submissions from 2019

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Kinship, Fractionalization and Corruption, Mahsa Akbari, Duman Bahrami-Rad, and Erik O. Kimbrough

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The Impact of Early International Digital Release of Films on U.S. Box Office Revenues, Brett Danaher, Michael D. Smith, and Xiaoying Tu

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Review of Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America, Lynne Doti

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Spanish California Missions: An Economic Success, Lynne Doti

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Technology Licensing and Innovation – A Correction on Two-Part Tariff Analysis, Yuanzhu Lu, Swapnendu Banerjee, and Sougata Poddar

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Limiting End-user Piracy | The Role of Private and Public Anti-Piracy Measure, Yuanzhu Lu and Sougata Poddar

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Differences in Tsimane Children’s Growth Outcomes and Associated Determinants as Estimated by WHO Standards vs. Within-Population References, Melanie Martin, Aaron Blackwell, Hillard Kaplan, and Michael Gurven

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Identity and the Self-Reinforcing Effects of Norm Compliance, Mark A. Pickup, Erik O. Kimbrough, and Eline A. Rooij

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Review of The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society, Jared Rubin

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Adam Smith, Scientist and Evolutionist: Part 1, Vernon Smith

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Adam Smith, Scientist and Evolutionist: Part 2, Vernon Smith

Submissions from 2018

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Trends and Disparities in Leave Use Under California's Paid Family Leave Program: New Evidence from Administrative Data, Sarah H. Bana, Kelly Bedard, and Maya Rossin-Slater

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'To Sell or Not to Sell': Licensing Versus Selling by an Outside Innovator, Swapnendu Banerjee and Sougata Poddar

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Cooler Heads Prevail: An Experimental Study on the “Cooling” Effect of the Strategy Method on Agent Resentment, Jing L. Davis

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Slow-Fast Analysis of a Multi-Group Asset Flow Model with Implications for the Dynamics of Wealth, Mark DeSantis and David Swigon

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Review of Reading the Market: Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America, Lynne P. Doti

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Review of Rulers, Religion, & Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not, Lynne P. Doti

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Preference Conformism: an Experiment, Enrique Fatas, Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap, and David Rojo Arjona

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Reorganization of Failing Financial Firms: A Capital Structure Solution, Steven Gjerstad

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Reorganization of Failing Financial Firms: A Capital Structure Solution, Steven Gjerstad

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Big Data in Economics, Matthew Harding and Jonathan Hersh

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Experimental Tests of the Tolerated Theft and Risk-Reduction Theories of Resource Exchange, Hillard Kaplan, Eric Schniter, Vernon L. Smith, and Bart J. Wilson

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Testing the Boundaries of the Double Auction: The Effects of Complete Information and Market Power, Erik O. Kimbrough

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A Portable Method of Eliciting Respect for Social Norms, Erik O. Kimbrough and Alexander Vostroknutov

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Review of Islam Instrumentalized: Religion and Politics in Historical Perspective, Jared Rubin

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Centrality and Cooperation in Networks, Boris van Leeuwen, Abhijit Ramalingam, David Rojo Arjona, and Arthur Schram

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Land Assembly without Eminent Domain: Laboratory Experiments of Two Tax Mechanisms, Abel Winn, Matthew W. McCarter, and Mark DeSantis

Submissions from 2017

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Poverty Mapping Using Convolutional Neural Networks Trained on High and Medium Resolution Satellite Images, With an Application in Mexico, Boris Babenko, Jonathan Hersh, David Newhouse, Anusha Ramakrishnan, and Tom Swartz

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Copyright Enforcement in the Digital Age: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications, Brett Danaher, Michael D. Smith, and Rahul Telang

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A Reexamination of “The Hidden Return to Incentives”, Jing Davis, Steven Schwartz, and Richard Young

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Poverty from Space: Using High-Resolution Satellite Imagery for Estimating Economic Well-Being, Ryan Engstrom, Jonathan Hersh, and David Newhouse

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Individualism, Collectivism, and Trade, Aidin Hajikhameneh and Erik O. Kimbrough

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Coordination When There Are Restricted and Unrestricted Options, Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap, David Rojo Arjona, and Robert Sugden

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Social Information "Nudges": an Experiment with Multiple Group References, Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap, Abhijit Ramalingam, and David Rojo Arjona

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Impact of Network Externality on End-User Piracy: Revisited, Sougata Poddar and Yuanzhu Lu

Submissions from 2016

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Information Effects in Uniform Price Multi-Unit Dutch Auctions, Joy A. Buchanan, Steven Gjerstad, and David Porter

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Does Price Efficiency Increase with Trading Volume? Evidence of Nonlinearity and Power Laws in ETFs, Gunduz Caginalp and Mark DeSantis

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Creativity and Cognitive Skills among Millennials: Thinking Too Much and Creating Too Little, Brice Corgnet, Antonio M. Espín, and Roberto Hernán-González

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Multiple Openings and Competitiveness of Forward Markets: Experimental Evidence, José Luis Ferreira, Praveen Kujal, and Stephen Rassenti

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Economic Modeling: Why the Standard Model Survives Bad Performance, Steven Gjerstad and Vernon Smith

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From Hard Money to Branch Banking California Banking in the Gold Rush Economy, Larry Schweikart and Lynne Pierson Doti

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John Nash: A Personal Remembrance (Introduction to the John Forbes Nash Jr. Memorial Special Issue), Vernon Smith

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The Fair and Impartial Spectator, Vernon L. Smith

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Seller Beware: Supply and Demand Reduction and Price Manipulation in Multiple-Unit Uniform Price Auctions, Abel Winn, Michael Parente, and David Porter

Submissions from 2015

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Building a Better Model: Variable Selection to Predict Poverty in Pakistan and Sri Lanka, Marium Afzal, Jonathan Hersh, and David Newhouse

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Robust Determinants of Bilateral Trade, Marianne Baxter and Jonathan Hersh

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The Cognitive Basis of Social Behavior: Cognitive Reflection Overrides Antisocial but Not Always Prosocial Motives, Brice Corgnet, Antonio M. Espín, and Roberto Hernán-González

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Cognitive Reflection and the Diligent Worker: An Experimental Study of Millennials, Brice Corgnet, Roberto Hernán-González, and Ricardo Mateo