Review Pieces on Social Norms
Social Norms in Experimental Economics: Towards a Unified Theory of Normative Decision Making
Analyse & Kritik, 2020
Why Do People Follow Social Norms?
Current Opinion in Psychology, 2021
An Informational Framework for Studying Social Norms: An Extended Version
of a chapter, 2021
Theory of Norms

Cognitive Model
A Theory of Injunctive Norms
with Erik Kimbrough
Resentment and Punishment
with Erik Kimbrough
A Meta-Theory of Moral Rules
with Erik Kimbrough
The Evolution of Personal Standards into Social Norms
with Hannes Rusch

Affective Model
Affective Decision-Making and Moral Sentiments
with Erik Kimbrough
see the video of the NoBec Talks presentation
Recent Papers

Institutions
Endogenous Institutions and Economic Policy
with James A. Robinson and Ekaterina Vostroknutova
(also the World Bank Working Paper, see below)
A Methodology to Construct Fictional Narratives for Economic Policy
with Lotte de Lint and Maximilian Rossmann

Norms
Measuring Norm Pluralism and Tolerance
with Folco Panizza, Eugen Dimant, and Erik Kimbrough
The Role of Meta-Context in Moral Decisions
with Folco Panizza and Giorgio Coricelli
Normative Acceptance of Power Abuse
with Leonard Hoeft and Wladislaw Mill

Political Science
Affective Polarization and Election Expectations
with Maxim Doiron, Kaj Thomsson, and Elias Tsakas

Beliefs
Incentives or Persuasion? An Experimental Investigation
with Andreas Aristidou and Giorgio Coricelli
Publications by Topic
  (see in chronological order)
Social Norms

Methods
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Kimbrough, E.O., Vostroknutov, A., 2018. A Portable Method of Eliciting Respect for Social Norms. Economics Letters 168, 147-150

Kimbrough, E.O., Vostroknutov, A., 2016. Norms Make Preferences Social. The Journal of the European Economic Association 14(3), 608-638

Institutional Economics
Robinson, J.A., Vostroknutov, A., Vostroknutova, E., 2023. Endogenous Institutions and Economic Policy. Policy Research Working Paper no. WPS10600. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group
World Bank, 2023. The Brazil of the Future: towards Productivity, Inclusion, and Sustainability. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group

Vostroknutov, A. The Role of Trust in Intertemporal Choice: The Case of Brazil
(the contribution to the "Brazil of the Future" report above)

Economic Experiments
Merguei, N., Strobel, M., Vostroknutov, A., 2022. Moral Opportunism as a Consequence of Decision Making under Uncertainty. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 197, 624-642
Gürdal, M.Y., Torul, O., Vostroknutov, A., 2020. Norm Compliance, Enforcement, and the Survival of Redistributive Institutions. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 178, 313-326

Eijkelenboom, G.G., Rohde, I., Vostroknutov, A., 2019. The Impact of the Level of Responsibility on Choices under Risk: The Role of Blame. Experimental Economics 22(4), 794-814
Baader, M., Vostroknutov, A., 2017. Interaction of Reasoning Ability and Distributional Preferences in a Social Dilemma. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 142, 79-91

Gächter, S., Mengel, F., Tsakas, E., Vostroknutov, A., 2017. Growth and Inequality in Public Good Provision. Journal of Public Economics 150, 1-13


Environmental Economics
Download pdf Kimbrough, E.O., Vostroknutov, A., 2015. The Social and Ecological Determinants of Common Pool Resource Sustainability. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 72, 38-53

Psychology/Neuroscience
Panizza, F., Vostroknutov, A., Coricelli, G., 2021. How Conformity Can Lead to Polarized Social Behavior. PLoS Computational Biology 17(10): e1009530
Gross, J., Vostroknutov, A., 2021. Why Do People Follow Social Norms? Current Opinion in Psychology 44, 1-6

Gross, J., Emmerling, F., Vostroknutov, A., Sack, A.T., 2018. Manipulation of Pro-Sociality and Rule-Following with Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation. Scientific Reports 8, 1827

Sociology/Philosophy
Vostroknutov, A., 2020. Social Norms in Experimental Economics: Towards a Unified Theory of Normative Decision Making. Analyse & Kritik 42(1), 3-39

Political Science

Thomsson, K.M., Vostroknutov, A., 2017. Small-World Conservatives and Rigid Liberals: Attitudes Towards Sharing in Self-Proclaimed Left and Right. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 135, 181-192
Social Learning
Panizza, F., Vostroknutov, A., Coricelli, G., 2021. How Conformity Can Lead to Polarized Social Behavior. PLoS Computational Biology 17(10): e1009530
Zonca, J., Vostroknutov, A., Coricelli, G., Polonio, L., 2021. Timing of Social Feedback Shapes Observational Learning in Strategic Interaction. Scientific Reports 11, 21972
Vostroknutov, A., Polonio, L., Coricelli, G., 2018. The Role of Intelligence in Social Learning. Scientific Reports 8, 6896
Social Status

Rustichini, A., Vostroknutov, A., 2014. Merit and Justice: An Experimental Analysis of Attitude to Inequality. PLoS ONE 9(12): e114512
Vostroknutov, A., 2013. Preferences over Consumption and Status. Theory and Decision 74(4), 509-537

Vostroknutov, A., Tobler, P., Rustichini, A., 2012. Causes of Social Reward Differences Encoded in Human Brain. Journal of Neurophysiology 107, 1403-1412
Decisions under Uncertainty
Fioretti, M., Vostroknutov, A., Coricelli, G., 2022. Dynamic Regret Avoidance. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 14(1): 70–93

Eijkelenboom, G.G., Rohde, I., Vostroknutov, A., 2019. The Impact of the Level of Responsibility on Choices under Risk: The Role of Blame. Experimental Economics 22(4), 794-814

Mengel, F., Tsakas, E., Vostroknutov, A., 2016. Past Experience of Uncertainty Affects Risk Aversion. Experimental Economics 19(1), 151-176
Vostroknutov, A., 2012. Non-probabilistic Decision Making with Memory Constraints. Economics Letters 117, 303-305
Reasoning in Games
Baader, M., Vostroknutov, A., 2017. Interaction of Reasoning Ability and Distributional Preferences in a Social Dilemma. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 142, 79-91
Hawes, D.R., Vostroknutov, A., Rustichini, A., 2012. Experience and Abstract Reasoning in Learning Backward Induction. Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience 6, 23

Gneezy, U., Rustichini, A., Vostroknutov, A., 2010. Experience and Insight in the Race Game. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 75, 144-155
Book Chapters
Tremewan, J., Vostroknutov, A., 2021. An Informational Framework for Studying Social Norms. In Chaudhuri, A. (ed.): A Research Agenda for Experimental Economics. Edward Elgar Publishing

Coricelli, G., Polonio, L., Vostroknutov, A., 2020. The Process of Choice in Games. In Capra, M., Croson, R., Rosenblatt, T., Rigdon M. (eds.): Handbook of Experimental Game Theory. Edward Elgar Publishing
Other Working Papers
A Theory of Reciprocity with Incomplete Information

Awareness in Repeated Games
with Friederike Mengel and Elias Tsakas
Related Press

The Curious Task, Ep.81: Erik Kimbrough - What influences our choices?

Kaj Thomsson on How much does political leaning influence giving, and what does that mean in broader terms?

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Kliemt on norm following and the emergence of social order