CeDEx University of Nottingham

Dr. L.S. (Lucas) Molleman L.S. Molleman. Assistant Professor. Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Programme group Developmental Psychology. Nieuwe Achtergracht 129. Room number: 1.05. Social learning, cultural evolutio...

Tomorrow we welcome @lucasmolleman.bsky.social as our latest CeDEx seminar speaker. The talk will take place in @uoneconomics.bsky.social Sir Clive Granger Building, room A40, 1-2pm. More about Lucas: www.uva.nl/en/profile/m... More about our seminars: www.nottingham.ac.uk/cedex/semina...

AI versus humans as authority figures: Evidence from a rule-compliance experiment: Sebastian Kube

Experimental economics now has a substantial track record
#econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/12/nott...

The 3rd Annual Conference of the Network of Behavioural and Experimental Economists based in the UK @beeuk.bsky.social will be at @uofebusiness.bsky.social on 25-26 June 2026. @uoncedex.bsky.social's Simon Gaechter will be a panel member and further details can be found here: tinyurl.com/4cu8j9sb

Land rights institutions and the scope of cooperation Abstract. Impersonal prosociality—the inclination to trust and cooperate outside one’s social circle—varies widely across societies. This study examines wh

Very interesting paper on the scope of cooperation by former @uoncedex.bsky.social researchers Daniele Nosenzo and @jonathanschulz.bsky.social. Check it out here:
doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

Urs Fischbacher

This week's @uoncedex.bsky.social seminar will take place tomorrow, Thursday 27th November. Urs Fischbacher of @uni-konstanz.de will give the talk in A02 Highfield House on University Park Campus 1-2pm. More about Urs: tinyurl.com/2hemm6a4 More about our seminars: tinyurl.com/yc847y4m

Tomorrow, Wed 19th November, Marcus Giamattei of Frankfurt School of Finance and Management will be our latest @uoncedex.bsky.social seminar speaker. The talk will be in @uoneconomics.bsky.social A40 Sir Clive Granger Building 1-2pm. More about our seminars: www.nottingham.ac.uk/cedex/semina...

Tomorrow, Wednesday 12th November, Till Weber of @newcastleuni.bsky.social will join us as our latest @uoncedex.bsky.social seminar speaker. The talk will be in @uoneconomics.bsky.social A40 Sir Clive Granger Building 1-2pm. More about Till: tinyurl.com/yewjm5r9 Our seminars: tinyurl.com/y7yt7dup

Simon Gaechter

Wed 5th November will see our very own Simon Gaechter give the latest talk in our @uoncedex.bsky.social 25th anniversary seminar series. The event will take place in @uoneconomics.bsky.social A40 Sir Clive Granger Building 1-2pm. About Simon: tinyurl.com/yd5mbttp Our Seminars: tinyurl.com/mr448tuv

Björn Bartling

Tomorrow 29th Oct Björn Bartling (@econ.uzh.ch) will join us as our latest @uoncedex.bsky.social 25th anniversary seminar series speaker. Talk will be in @uoneconomics.bsky.social Sir Clive Granger Building A40 1-2pm. About Björn: tinyurl.com/z8sujs2p More about our seminars: tinyurl.com/297k52mf

Tomorrow - 15th October - Vanessa Valero of @imt.fr Business School will join us as @uoncedex.bsky.social latest seminar speaker. The talk will take place in @uoneconomics.bsky.social Sir Clive Granger Building A40 1-2pm. More about Vanessa: tinyurl.com/ykmn2aah Our seminars: tinyurl.com/5admsv9t

The CeDEx 25th anniversary seminar series continues today as we welcome Benedikt Herrmann (Research Centre at European Commission). The talk will take place in @uoneconomics.bsky.social A40 Sir Clive Granger Building, 1-2pm. More about our seminars here: www.nottingham.ac.uk/cedex/semina...

Why people follow rules - Nature Human Behaviour Why do people follow rules, even when breaking them has no consequences? Experiments with 14,034 participants reveal that rule-following is not just about rewards or punishments—it is driven by intrinsic respect for rules and social expectations, regulating everyday social interactions.

See www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We introduce a new rule-following task, the "Y task" & show with data from 7,000+ people - who are either ingroup or outgroup - that rule breaking is contagious regardless of group identity. Rule-following remains high despite rule-breaking, supporting results from previous research

New publication by Cristina Bicchieri and current & former @UoNCeDEx res Simon Gaechter, @lucasmolleman.bsky.social and Daniele Nosenzo on the role of group identity (ingroup vs outgroup) for rule following: doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

Why people follow rules - Nature Human Behaviour Why do people follow rules, even when breaking them has no consequences? Experiments with 14,034 participants reveal that rule-following is not just about rewards or punishments—it is driven by intrin...

See www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why do people follow rules? There are many rules in organisations that are in place to prevent harm and create harmonious cooperation. So how do we help make sure employees follow rules?

A crisp summary by MORETHANNOW for Substack of our paper Why people follow rules: Why do people follow rules? open.substack.com/pub/morethan...

Very interesting cross-cultural research including former @uoncedex.bsky.social researcher @jonathanschulz.bsky.social

An interdisciplinary explanation of rule-following in the absence or presence of incentives Nature Human Behaviour - Why do people follow rules that they often have an incentive not to follow? Across four sets of experiments, we showed that respect for rules and conformity with social...

For a short explainer with background info have a look at rdcu.be/exrN2

Why people follow rules - Nature Human Behaviour Why do people follow rules, even when breaking them has no consequences? Experiments with 14,034 participants reveal that rule-following is not just about rewards or punishments—it is driven by intrin...

Our paper on Why people follow rules is now published in the July Issue of @nathumbehav.nature.com. Check it our here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Why people follow rules - Nature Human Behaviour Why do people follow rules, even when breaking them has no consequences? Experiments with 14,034 participants reveal that rule-following is not just about rewards or punishments—it is driven by intrin...

"people expect rule-conformity and view it as socially appropriate. Rule-breaking is contagious but remains moderate. Pro-social motives and extrinsic incentives increase rule-conformity, but unconditional rule-following and social expectations explain most of it."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interesting take on the @uoncedex.bsky.social study on why people follow rules: theboar.org/2025/06/one-....

The study is here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Interested in how performance incentives affect positive reciprocity?

Check out our most recent paper, now published in Experimental Economics: "Incentives crowd out voluntary cooperation: evidence from gift-exchange experiments", by Simon Gaechter, Esther Kaiser and Manfred Koenigstein.

An interdisciplinary explanation of rule-following in the absence or presence of incentives - Nature Human Behaviour Why do people follow rules that they often have an incentive not to follow? Across four sets of experiments, we showed that respect for rules and conformity with social expectations are fundamental fa...

And here is a companion article that describes our paper in short format: doi.org/10.1038/s415... See also rdcu.be/eqK35

Why people follow rules - Nature Human Behaviour Why do people follow rules, even when breaking them has no consequences? Experiments with 14,034 participants reveal that rule-following is not just about rewards or punishments—it is driven by intrin...

Check out our paper here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Issue #3547 | Magazine cover date: 14 June 2025 Read Issue #3547 14 June 2025 of New Scientist magazine for the latest news from across the world of science, plus long reads, opinion, analysis, and more

Article about our paper in @nathumbehav.nature.com Why people follow rules, now in this week's print edition of @newscientist.com : www.newscientist.com/issue/3547/ including a mention on the title page:

Why people follow rules - Nature Human Behaviour Why do people follow rules, even when breaking them has no consequences? Experiments with 14,034 participants reveal that rule-following is not just about rewards or punishments—it is driven by intrin...

Why do people follow rules?
Sense of duty
To avoid punishments
Social expectations
Preferences
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

An interdisciplinary explanation of rule-following in the absence or presence of incentives Nature Human Behaviour - Why do people follow rules that they often have an incentive not to follow? Across four sets of experiments, we showed that respect for rules and conformity with social...

rdcu.be/eqbOa

Quarter of people follow rules even with no downside to breaking them Why do we follow rules? A series of experiments with more than 14,000 people reveals that around a quarter of us will follow rules unconditionally, even if obeying them harms us and there is no downsi...

Nice article in @newscientist.com about our paper on why people follow rules: www.newscientist.com/article/2482...

Why people follow rules - Nature Human Behaviour Why do people follow rules, even when breaking them has no consequences? Experiments with 14,034 participants reveal that rule-following is not just about rewards or punishments—it is driven by intrin...

The research paper in @nathumbehav.nature.com is here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...