Urs Fischbacher

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Urs Fischbacher is affiliated with the following schools: Collegium Helveticum, University of Konstanz, University of Zurich

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PhD Economics University of Zurich
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According to Wikipedia, Urs Fischbacher is a Swiss economist and professor of applied economic research at the University of Konstanz. He is director of the Thurgau Economic Institute, an affiliated institute of the University of Konstanz. He pioneered the field of software tools for experimental economics.

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Urs Fischbacher's Published Works

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Published Works

z-Tree: Zurich toolbox for ready-made economic experiments (2007) (9648)
Oxytocin increases trust in humans (2005) (3318)
The nature of human altruism (2003) (3007)
Are People Conditionally Cooperative? Evidence from a Public Goods Experiment (2001) (2740)
A Theory of Reciprocity (2001) (2534)
Third Party Punishment and Social Norms (2004) (1793)
The Neural Basis of Altruistic Punishment (2004) (1598)
Social norms and human cooperation (2004) (1345)
Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments (2008) (1278)
Strong reciprocity, human cooperation, and the enforcement of social norms (2002) (1193)
Why Social Preferences Matter - the Impact of Non-Selfish Motives on Competition, Cooperation and Incentives (2002) (1169)
Oxytocin Shapes the Neural Circuitry of Trust and Trust Adaptation in Humans (2008) (1121)
Lies in Disguise. An experimental study on cheating (2013) (1007)
On the Nature of Fair Behavior (1999) (828)
Testing Theories of Fairness - Intentions Matter (2000) (718)
Parochial altruism in humans (2006) (709)
z-Tree - Zurich toolbox for readymade economic experiments: experimenter's manual (1999) (655)
The Neural Signature of Social Norm Compliance (2007) (519)
A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Survey (2003) (493)
Driving Forces Behind Informal Sanctions (2005) (459)
Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences (2019) (421)
Group Affiliation and Altruistic Norm Enforcement (2006) (385)
Shifting the Blame: On Delegation and Responsibility (2011) (334)
The Social Dimension of Stress Reactivity (2012) (323)
A Nationwide Laboratory Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioural Experiments into Representative Surveys (2002) (281)
Indirect Reciprocity and Strategic Reputation Building in an Experimental Helping Game (2002) (238)
Studying the neurobiology of social interaction with transcranial direct current stimulation--the example of punishing unfairness. (2008) (237)
Affect and fairness: Dictator games under cognitive load (2014) (197)
Appropriating the Commons - a Theoretical Explanation (2001) (181)
The behavioral validity of the strategy method in public good experiments (2012) (175)
The Neural Circuitry of a Broken Promise (2009) (166)
"Crime" in the lab-detecting social interaction (2002) (149)
Are people conditionally cooperative (2000) (140)
Fairness, Errors and the Power of Competition (2003) (137)
Heterogeneous Social Preferences and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods (2006) (134)
Do High Stakes and Competition Undermine Fairness? Evidence from Russia (2002) (125)
Academic Performance and Single-Sex Schooling: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Switzerland (2011) (105)
The economics of strong reciprocity (2005) (101)
Neuroeconomic Foundations of Trust and Social Preferences (2005) (98)
Living in Two Neighborhoods - Social Interaction Effects in the Laboratory (2013) (96)
Driving Forces of Informal Sanctions (2001) (95)
Disadvantageous lies in individual decisions (2013) (90)
Living in Two Neighborhoods - Social Interactions in the Lab (2004) (87)
Social value orientation moderates the effects of intuition versus reflection on responses to unfair ultimatum offers (2017) (87)
Soft Landing of a Stock Market Bubble. An Experimental Study (2002) (86)
The causal effect of stop-loss and take-gain orders on the disposition effect (2014) (85)
Human Altruism – Proximate Patterns and Evolutionary Origins (2005) (79)
Heterogeneous reactions to heterogeneity in returns from public goods (2014) (77)
On the acceptance of apologies (2013) (61)
Reasons for Conflict: Lessons from Bargaining Experiments (2003) (60)
Oxytocin Increases Trust in Humans Nature (2015) (58)
Inefficient Excess Entry in an Experimental Winner-Take-All Market (2008) (57)
The Impact of Monetary Policy on Stock Market Bubbles and Trading Behavior: Evidence from the Lab (2012) (51)
Distributional Consequences and Intentions in a Model of Reciprocity (2001) (47)
Excess Entry in an Experimental Winner-Take-All Market (2002) (45)
How to model heterogeneity in costly punishment: : insights from responders' response times (2013) (45)
Effects of acute stress on social behavior in women (2019) (44)
Fairness and the power of competition (2003) (44)
Strategic Errors and Audit Quality: An Experimental Investigation (2007) (37)
Acute social and physical stress interact to influence social behavior: The role of social anxiety (2018) (36)
Pivotality and Responsibility Attribution in Sequential Voting (2015) (36)
Heterogeneous preferences and investments in energy saving measures (2021) (35)
Neural Correlates of Receiving an Apology and Active Forgiveness: An fMRI Study (2014) (33)
Examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative surveys (2003) (30)
A Nation-Wide Laboratory - Examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experimen (2003) (30)
HETEROGENEOUS SOCIAL PREFERENCES AND THE DYNAMICS OF FREE RIDING IN PUBLIC GOOD EXPERIMENTS (2008) (30)
Do High Stakes and Competition Undermine Fair Behaviour? : Evidence from Russia (2014) (29)
Response time and click position: cheap indicators of preferences (2016) (25)
Taking the initiative. What characterizes leaders (2013) (24)
Modeling strong reciprocity (2005) (24)
The scent of attractiveness: levels of reproductive hormones explain individual differences in women's body odour (2018) (23)
Informal Sanctions (2000) (23)
Dopaminergic stimulation increases selfish behavior in the absence of punishment threat (2013) (22)
The effects of subjective loss of control on risk-taking behavior: the mediating role of anger (2015) (21)
Genome-wide study identifies 611 loci associated with risk tolerance and risky behaviors (2018) (21)
Affect and Fairness (2011) (19)
Unequal Opportunities and Distributive Justice (2013) (18)
Reciprocity and resistance to comprehensive reform (2014) (16)
Wearing a mask—For yourself or for others? Behavioral correlates of mask wearing among COVID-19 frontline workers (2021) (16)
Trust and Beliefs among Europeans: Cross-Country Evidence on Perceptions and Behavior (2015) (16)
Men's preferences for women's body odours are not associated with human leucocyte antigen (2017) (15)
Do high stakes and competition undermine fairness (2002) (15)
Z-Tree ? Experimenter?S Manual (1999) (15)
Inconsistency and social decision making in patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (2016) (15)
Simple heuristics in a social game (2013) (14)
Spillover Effects of Loss of Control on Risky Decision-Making (2016) (13)
FAIRNESS AND RETALIATION : THE ECONOMICS OF RECIPROCITY Ernst Fehr Simon Gächter (2000) (13)
Altruists with Green Beards (2005) (12)
Appropriating the commons (2000) (11)
Helping and Quiet Hours: Interruption‐Free Time Spans Can Harm Performance (2013) (11)
Taking the initiative : what motivates leaders? (2010) (10)
Intrinsic connectivity networks underlying individual differences in control‐averse behavior (2018) (10)
Decomposing trust: Explaining national trust differences (2008) (10)
Testing the social competition hypothesis of depression using a simple economic game (2016) (10)
Cognitive processes underlying distributional preferences: a response time study (2020) (10)
Neural Mechanisms Underlying Individual Differences in Control-Averse Behavior (2018) (10)
Algorithms in representation theory of algebras (1986) (10)
The modulation of social behavior and empathy via oral contraceptives and female sex hormones (2021) (10)
Accumulating evidence suggests that men do not find body odours of human leucocyte antigen-dissimilar women more attractive (2018) (9)
Behavioral determinants of supply chain integration and coexistence (2016) (9)
Cognitive Processes of Distributional Preferences: A Response Time Study (2015) (8)
NOTES AND COMMENTS DRIVING FORCES BEHIND INFORMAL SANCTIONS (2005) (8)
The Economics of Reciprocity: Evidence and Theory (2002) (8)
On the attribution of externalities (2009) (7)
The Trust Game for Couples (TGC): A new standardized paradigm to assess trust in romantic relationships (2020) (7)
Crossing the Point of No Return : A Public Goods Experiment (2011) (7)
The value of decision-making power in social decisions (2020) (6)
Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences (2019) (6)
Honesty and Self-Selection into Cheap Talk (2020) (6)
Non‐Additivity and the Salience of Marginal Productivities: Experimental Evidence on Distributive Fairness (2017) (5)
The representation-finite algebras with at most 3 simple modules (1986) (5)
Who Runs? Honesty and Self-Selection into Politics (2016) (5)
Voluntary Standards and Coordination in Public Goods Games (2011) (5)
Decentralized matching and social segregation (2015) (4)
Finding the maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) in a Bayesian taxonomic key is NP-hard (1996) (4)
On Delegation and Responsibility (2008) (3)
Agenda Setting and Reciprocal Vote Trading (2010) (3)
Large-scale genetic study of risk tolerance and risky behaviors identifies new loci and reveals shared genetic influences (2017) (3)
Agenda Control and Reciprocity in Sequential Voting Decisions (2020) (3)
Incentives for Conformity and Anticonformity (2020) (3)
ATTRIBUTION OF EXTERNALITIES: AN ECONOMIC APPROACH TO THE KNOBE EFFECT (2014) (3)
Naïve Responses to Kind Delegation (2015) (3)
Experiments on parochial altruism in humans: procedures and instructions (2006) (3)
Pleasant body odours, but not genetic similarity, influence trustworthiness in a modified trust game (2020) (2)
"Failure Makes Me Cautious" : Cognitions and Behavior Following Failure in Achievement Settings (2010) (2)
Online assistance: the development of a help-system and an online tutorial (1989) (2)
Contacts Matter : Local Governance and the Targeting of Social Pensions in Bangladesh (2020) (2)
Neuron The Neural Circuitry of a Broken Promise (2009) (1)
MATCHING AND SEGREGATION: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY (2005) (1)
Neural correlates of receiving an apology (2012) (1)
Men's preferences for women's body odours are not associated with HLA (2017) (1)
Scent of a woman: Are body odours cues to potential female fertility? (2019) (1)
Cognitive processes underlying distributional preferences: a response time study (2019) (1)
Strategic incentives undermine gaze as a signal of prosocial motives (2022) (1)
Doing Well by doing good - or doing better by delegating? (2011) (1)
Effects of social and non-social stress on social behavior in health and social anxiety disorder (2017) (1)
Redistribution beyond equality and status quo – heterogeneous societies in the lab1 (2021) (1)
Fairness , Errors and the Power of Competition 1 (2003) (1)
Development of a computer game paradigm for manipulating subjective control experiences (2009) (1)
Helping as Mundane Knowledge Sharing: Do Bundled Help Request and Quiet Time Increase Performance? (2014) (1)
Which hospital workers do (not) want the jab? Behavioral correlates of COVID-19 vaccine willingness among employees of Swiss hospitals (2022) (0)
The Neural Circuitry of aB roken Promise (2009) (0)
Supplementary material from "Men's preferences for women's body odours are not associated with human leucocyte antigen" (2017) (0)
Heterogeneous reactions to heterogeneity in returns from public goods (2013) (0)
Blame and Praise: Responsibility Attribution Patterns in Decision Chains (2022) (0)
Examining the shared genetic architecture of risk tolerance and related behaviors (2017) (0)
Super-Additive Cooperation (2022) (0)
How Can We Measure Honesty and Patterns of Dishonesty (2017) (0)
Editorial: Symposium “Pre-results review” (2023) (0)
Blame the Rich - Praise the Poor : Economic Status and the Attribution of Intentions (2009) (0)
An experimental inquiry into the effect of yardstick competition on corruption 1 Angelino Viceisza ? ? (2007) (0)
Introduction [zu: European Journal of Political Economy ; 40 (2015)] (2015) (0)
Rational Addiction and Vanishing Time Preference RateP (0)
Eyes on the Prize: An (Interactive) Eye-Tracking Study of Motives in Economic Interactions (2019) (0)
Reciprocity and resistance to comprehensive reform (2013) (0)
Identity breeds inequality: Evidence from a laboratory experiment on redistribution (2023) (0)
Dopaminergic stimulation increases selfish behavior in the absence of punishment threat (2013) (0)
Learning and Peer Effects (2010) (0)
Trust, Competition and Cooperation in Autism Spectrum Disorder (2014) (0)
Adding household surveys to the behavioral economics toolbox: Insights from the SOEP Innovation Sample (2022) (0)
Supplementary material from "The scent of attractiveness: levels of reproductive hormones explain individual differences in women's body odour" (2018) (0)
Fairness and the Power of Competition 1 (2003) (0)
Response time and click position: cheap indicators of preferences (2016) (0)
Betting on Diversity – Occupational Segregation and Gender Stereotypes (2023) (0)
Pleasant body odours, but not genetic similarity, influence trustworthiness in a modified trust game (2020) (0)
Promises and partnership (by Gary Charness and Martin Dufwenberg) (2021) (0)
Human Altruism – Proximate Patterns and (2005) (0)
Caste and Unequal Access to Education: An Experimental Study (2022) (0)
Non-selfish motivation and river basin management (2008) (0)
Investment in energy saving measures and heterogeneous preferences (2014) (0)
Making habitat and landscape inventories available (1994) (0)

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