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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

"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.

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

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

A concise summary of our paper on Why people follow rules in Phys.org : Most people obey arbitrary rules even when it's not in their interest to do so, experiments show. Read it here: phys.org/news/2025-06...

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 downside to breaking them

Nice article in @newscientist.com about our recent paper in @nathumbehav.nature.com about Why people follow rules. Read it here: rdcu.be/epd5R

You can read the paper that's described in the Research Briefing here: rdcu.be/epd5R

Research Briefing on "Why people follow rules" out now in Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com : Read it at rdcu.be/epdIH

New Research Briefing "An interdisciplinary explanation of rule-following in the absence or presence of incentives" out in @nathumbehav.nature.com. This Research Briefing provides a brief summary of "Why people follow rules" just published in @nathumbehav.nature.com. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

New post: Why people follow the rules. (Or, why the Left should pick its battles with Robert Jenrick.)

Interesting research by former @uoncedex.bsky.social researcher @dvdolder.bsky.social

A majority of people follow "costly" rules, even in settings in which they are anonymous, alone, and violations are harmless because of respect for rules and social expectations, even though rule violation is moderately contagious, finds Gächter et al., www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚦 Why do we follow rules? A new study finds that most of us do it out of habit and a sense that others expect us to. It is not all about rewards or fear of punishment. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... #SciComm #HumanBehaviour 🧪

New paper on why people follow rules by (former) @uoncedex.bsky.social researchers Simon Gaechter, @lucasmolleman.bsky.social and Daniele Nosenzo, out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com. We develop the CRISP framework of rule compliance & argue that 4 fundamental motives are at play in rule following.

I am so excited to read this paper!

“rule-following is not just about rewards or punishments—it is driven by intrinsic respect for rules and social expectations, regulating everyday social interactions”

What makes people follow rules? Research by Gächter et al suggests •respect for rules and •social expectations mostly explain why people follow laws and social norms, even without •extrinsic incentives and •social preferences buff.ly/fjTNlwE

New paper on why people follow rules by (former) @uoncedex.bsky.social researchers Simon Gaechter, @lucasmolleman.bsky.social and Daniele Nosenzo, out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com. We develop the CRISP framework of rule compliance & argue that 4 fundamental motives are at play in rule following.

Why do people follow rules, most importantly laws & social norms? In our new paper in @nathumbehav.nature.com‬ by current and former @UoNCeDEx researchers Simon Gaechter, @lucasmolleman.bsky.social‬ and Daniele Nosenzo, we provide some basic behavioural insights into this question. 1/15

Why do people follow rules, even when breaking them has no consequences? New research by Gächter et al. suggests it’s driven by an intrinsic respect for rules and social expectations—not just rewards or punishments. @lucasmolleman.bsky.social @uoncedex.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

21 May CeDEx will host 2 seminars: 1st will be @juansemorales.bsky.social of @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social 1-2pm A40 Sir Clive Granger Building. 2nd (joint with @uniofnottingham.bsky.social Sch of Econ Senior Academic Seminar Series) Ernst Fehr of @econ.uzh.ch 3-4.30pm in A40 tinyurl.com/2aptkyjm

This Wednesday 14th May @alistair-munro.bsky.social of GRIPS will be our latest CeDEx seminar speaker. The talk will be in A40 Sir Clive Granger Building 1-2pm @uniofnottingham.bsky.social. More about Alistair: munroalistair.github.io#top More about our seminars: tinyurl.com/ydf2bzpe

Tomorrow 7th May we welcome Fabio Tufano (University of Leicester) as our latest CeDEx seminar speaker. The talk starts at 1pm in A40 Sir Clive Granger Building @uniofnottingham.bsky.social More about Fabio: tinyurl.com/2ue4svka More about our seminars: tinyurl.com/443hf76h

New paper by @uoncedex.bsky.social researcher Simon Gaechter, former PhD student Esther Kaiser (UZHAW Winterthur) and Manfred Koenigstein (U Erfurt) analysing how incentive contracts affect reciprocal gift exchange. Now published in Experimental Economics doi.org/10.1017/eec.... 1/5

Thanks for coming @dvdolder.bsky.social‬ and giving a very inspiring seminar! Hope to see you soon again!

Just flagging this 3 year full time Senior Research Associate job opportunity over in The Department of Economics at the University of Chicago: apply.interfolio.com/164544

This Wednesday 26th March we welcome @dvdolder.bsky.social of @essexuni.bsky.social as our latest CeDEx seminar speaker. The talk will be at 1pm in the Sir Clive Granger Building @uniofnottingham.bsky.social. More about Dennie: tinyurl.com/bdhk8d4e More about our seminars: tinyurl.com/4tc9up9u

This year CeDEx marks its 25th anniversary. To celebrate, we are designating this year’s seminar series the 'CeDEx 25th Anniversary Series'. It will include speakers with longstanding connections to CeDEx, with first talk by Prof. Robert Sugden (UEA) on 19th Feb. Further info: tinyurl.com/txscbm4h

This is our welcome message to our followers and friends on @bsky.app. We will now post only on this platform. We have now deleted our account on X. Looking forward to many fruitful and interesting interactions and sharing and reading about exciting scientific news!

Another great starter pack for economists interested in field experiments!

A great starter pack for experimental economists!