Past Events

Date Event
4/20/2017 PPE’s BeLab Lecture: Understanding Decision Processes: A Protocol Analysis Approach
4/13/2017 PPE’s BeLab Lecture – Code of Ethics: Window Dressing or Norm Trigger?
4/6/2017 PPE’s BeLab Talk: Present-Bias, Procrastination and Deadlines in a Field Experiment
3/30/2017 PPE’s 2017 Goldstone Forum: Tales of Psychological Science from City Hall to the Oval Office
3/30/2017 PPE’s Crime and Corruption Capstone Talk (Anyone Welcome): Official Misconduct or Criminal Corruption: Considerations in Charging Official Corruption
3/2/2017 Estimating Wasteful Moral Hazard under the Access-Theory of Health Insurance: An Experimental Approach
2/23/2017 Does How We Measure Altruism Matter?: Playing Both Roles in Dictator Games
2/23/2017 PPE’s Crime and Corruption Capstone Talk (Anyone Welcome): “Development Aid and the Transnational Fight Against Corruption”
2/16/2017 PPE’s Crime and Corruption Capstone Talk (Anyone Welcome): Offering Frauds: The Techniques and Mentality of the Promoters
2/9/2017 PPE’s BeLab Lecture: How do group norms affect individuals’ compliance with the law?
2/2/2017 PPE’s BeLab Lecture: The psychology of rivalry
2/2/2017 PPE’s Crime and Corruption Capstone Talk (Anyone Welcome):“Inside the FBI’s Philadelphia Judicial Corruption Investigation”
1/26/2017 PPE’s BeLab Lecture: Time to Give: A Field Experiment on Intertemporal Charitable Giving*
1/23/2017 PPE’s Crime and Corruption Capstone Talk (Anyone Welcome):“Inside the FBI’s Philadelphia Judicial Corruption Investigation”
11/17/2016 Cognitive Unconscious and Human Rationality (MIT Press, 2016)
11/10/2016 Community solidarity and social contracting in village India: The effect of culture on the emergence of efficient institutions*
10/27/2016 The Source of Deviant Behavior
10/26/2016 The Prosecution of Public Corruption in Federal Courts
10/24/2016 Hard Times: A non-standard constructivist account of change in view
10/24/2016 Transnational crime and implications for global governance
10/20/2016 Abstract vs. concrete construals of fair allocations
10/13/2016 Linking science with policy: A perspective from risk perception and decision psychology
10/10/2016 **This Talk Has Been Canceled** From Compliance to Moral Agency: How Integrity Management Engages Employees in Strengthening Organizational Ethics
9/28/2016 Who’s in Your Wallet?
9/22/2016 Why Money Cannot Buy Time
9/15/2016 Who is Afraid of Scientific Imperialism?
4/14/2016 Liberty Lecture: Promises, Reliance, and Psychological Lock-in
4/7/2016 The Viennese students of Civilization: The Meaning and Context of Austrian Economics Reconsidered
3/24/2016 PPE is Pleased to Present: The Economy as an Evolving Network: Some Empirical Results*
3/22/2016 KPMG Forensic – More than just dead bodies
3/17/2016 PPE Is Pleased to Present: Temptation and Commitment in the Laboratory*
3/15/2016 Philadelphia Juvenile Justice
2/25/2016 A Cognitive Model of Strategic Deliberation and Decision Making
2/25/2016 Fraud Prevention and Compliance
2/16/2016 The intrinsic value of power
2/16/2016 Russian Efforts to Control Corruption in Russia
2/11/2016 On Peer Effects: Behavioral Contagion of (Un)Ethical Behavior and the Role of Social Identity
2/4/2016 Experiments on Equity and Equality
1/21/2016 PPE Is Pleased to Present : Costly contests and the will to win*
1/13/2016 PPE is Pleased to Present: Social norms and identity dependent preferences*
11/17/2015 Liberty Lecture: Entrepreneurship and the European Witch Trials
11/9/2015 Liberty Lecture: Openness to Experience and Creativity
11/5/2015 Liberty Lecture: How do Voters Assess the Economy? An Experimental Test of Benchmarking
11/3/2015 Liberty Lecture: Entrepreneurship and Openness
10/27/2015 PPE Is Pleased to Present: Spatial Coordination and Cooperation Among Humans: Experimental Results
10/15/2015 PPE Is Pleased to Present: Mobilizing the Young Vote: Direct Mail Voter Guides and Turnout in the Chicago 2015 Mayoral Election
10/14/2015 Liberty Lecture: The Impossibility of Pure Libertarianism
10/7/2015 PPE Is Pleased to Present: Daniel Friedman
9/23/2015 Liberty Lecture: Entrepreneurship and Culture: Connectivity and the innovativeness of cities
9/17/2015 Inflated Reputation: Leniency and Moral Wiggle Room in Trader Feedback Systems
9/14/2015 Choice Models and Realistic Ontologies: Three Challenges to Neuro-Psychological Modellers
5/1/2015 Serra-Garcia Talk
4/30/2015 Liberty Lecture: Tyler Cowen – The Importance of Defining the Feasible Set
4/23/2015 Riccardo Viale – University of Milano-Bicocca – Cognition and Epistemology of Social Sciences
4/16/2015 Liberty Lecture: Rationalism, Pluralism and Freedom
4/9/2015 Russell Hardin – New York University – Social Yes, Contract, No
4/2/2015 Gary Charness – University of California Santa Barbara – Inducing Social Norms in Laboratory Allocation Choices
3/31/2015 PPE’s 2015 Goldstone Forum: Jewish Life in Europe and the USA
3/19/2015 Liberty Lecture: Markets without limits
3/19/2015 Marta Maras – Bocconi University – Holier than Thou? A Natural Field Experiment on Social Information in Charitable Giving
2/26/2015 Ronald Inglehart- University of Michigan – Cultural Change, Slow and Fast: The transition from Pro-fertility norms to Individual-choice norms
2/19/2015 Rukia Dahir – Edna Adan Hospital Foundation – Female Genital Cutting/Female Genital Mutilation in Somaliland
2/12/2015 Sebastiano Bavetta – London School of Economics – Freedom and Happiness
2/5/2015 Conditional cooperation in the face of disasters
1/29/2015 Scott Page – When Order Affects Performance: Institutional Sequencing,Cultural Sway, and Behavioral Path Dependence
1/22/2015 Kristina Botts – You’ve got mail: A randomized field experiment on tax evasion
11/20/2014 Sheheryar Banuri – Pro-social motivation, effort and the call to public service
11/19/2014 The Openness-Equality Trade-Off in Global Redistribution
11/6/2014 Explanatory Judgment, Moral Offense and Value-Free Science. An Empirical Study (Joint work with Leandra Bucher and Yoel Inbar)
10/23/2014 Fairness and Coordination: The Role of Fairness Principles in Coordination Failure and Success
10/16/2014 Parenting, Teaching or Peer Pressure: A Real-Effort Field Experiment on Children’s Pro-Social Behavior
9/18/2014 Solidarity Among the Poor: Risk Sharing in Three Texas Communities
6/11/2014 Roberto Fumagalli Talk: On the Neural Enrichment of Economic Models: Recasting the Challenge
6/10/2014 Centrality, Authority and Exclusion in Network Social Dilemmas
5/8/2014 The Climate Change Game: Wealth Inequality and Asymmetric Responsibility in Climate Change Mitigation
5/1/2014 Optimal Fines under Announced and Surprise Inspections‡
4/22/2014 Wharton & the Perelman School of Medicine Presents: “Origins of Charity and Deception in the Brain”
3/4/2014 The Freedom Lecture Series is Pleased to Present: Free Market Fairness
2/14/2014 The Freedom Lecture Series is Pleased to Present: The Egalitarian Species
1/24/2014 Drawing the Fig Leaf: Moral Hypocrisy in Simple Distribution Tasks
12/6/2013 A Multi-Country Study of the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children
11/19/2013 Deserving Altruism: An Experiment in Pure Indirect Reciprocity
11/5/2013 BeLab is Pleased to Present: Towards an Epistemology of Trust
10/25/2013 BeLab is Pleased to Present: Social Science Online: Experimental Designs for Studying Norm Change
10/4/2013 Work-in-Progress Lunch Seminar: Conventional corruption
10/2/2013 BeLab is Pleased to Present: Sunita Sah Colloquium
9/17/2013 PPE Freedom Lecture Series is Pleased to Present: Modeling and Experimenting Bounded Rationality
9/6/2013 Marginality, Social Stigma, and Changing the Culture of Corruption
6/28/2013 Keynesian Beauty Contest Games: Level k vs. Signals
6/21/2013 Explaining the Axial Age: How Increased Energy Capture Favored Ascetic Wisdoms and Moralizing Religions
4/30/2013 The Price Is Sexist: Taste Based Discrimination by Contestants on the Price Is Right
4/19/2013 Lunch Seminar
4/18/2013 Boyer Colloquium
3/26/2013 2013 Goldstone Forum: Changing Harmful Social Norms in Traditional Societies