Interesting and very valuable paper for anyone doing online experiments, by a great team including former @uoncedex.bsky.social researcher and affiliate @arechar.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Starting this week: the 5th CeDEx China & 4th CHE Conference, bringing together experts in behaviour, experiments and health at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Find out more: cedex-china.github.io/conference/2... #CeDExChina #BehaviouralEconomics

A wonderful homecoming — it was a real pleasure to be back at Nottingham @uoneconomics.bsky.social as a CeDEx seminar speaker. Nottingham is where I did my PhD, so it was great to reconnect with old friends and colleagues and talk research again. 🙏

Tomorrow, 17th June, we will welcome @orestis-kps.bsky.social as our latest CeDEx seminar speaker. The talk will take place in @uoneconomics.bsky.social Sir Clive Granger Building, room A40 between 1-2pm. More about the speaker: kopsacheilis.com and about our seminars: tinyurl.com/3c43z4v5

Tomorrow we welcome @sennjulien.bsky.social of @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social as our latest CeDEx seminar speaker. The talk will take place in @uoneconomics.bsky.social Sir Clive Granger Building, A40, 1-2pm. More about Julien: sites.google.com/site/juliens... About our seminars: tinyurl.com/4wm79bau

Tomorrow (29 April) visiting researcher Antonio Arechar (CIDE) @arechar.bsky.social will be our latest CeDEx seminar speaker. The talk will take place in @uoneconomics.bsky.social Sir Clive Granger Building, A40, 1-2pm. More about Antonio: arechar.com More about our seminars: tinyurl.com/39ph6vxf

Impressive research w/ former & current @uoneconomics.bsky.social res Ozan Isler, Lucas de Melo, Andres Martignano, Georg Sator, Kieran Stockley, Benjamin Tatlow & @diegomarinofages.bsky.social on Reproducibility & robustness of economics and political science research www.nature.com/articles/s41...

CeDEx's own Simon Gaechter will be our next seminar speaker. The talk takes place tomorrow, 18th March, in @uoneconomics.bsky.social Sir Clive Granger Building, A40, 1-2pm. More about Simon: www.nottingham.ac.uk/economics/pe... More about our seminars: www.nottingham.ac.uk/cedex/semina...

Today's CeDEx seminar speaker is @onurcanyilmaz.bsky.social of Kadir Has University. The talk will take place in @uoneconomics.bsky.social Sir Clive Granger Building, room A40 1-2pm. More about Onurcan: www.khas.edu.tr/en/academic-... More about our seminars: www.nottingham.ac.uk/cedex/semina...

Tomorrow 25th February we welcome @rebeccalm.bsky.social of @unibirmingham.bsky.social as our latest CeDEx seminar speaker. The talk will take place in @uoneconomics.bsky.social Sir Clive Granger Building, A40, 1-2pm. More about Rebecca: tinyurl.com/4jjhu2yd About our seminars: tinyurl.com/bdhvnhd7

The Resilience of Rule Compliance in a Polarized Society: Johannes Schultz

Today's CeDEx seminar speaker is @rafaeljjd.bsky.social of Bocconi University. The talk will take place in @uoneconomics.bsky.social Sir Clive Granger Building, A40 1-2pm. More about Rafael: rafaeljjd.com More about our seminar series: www.nottingham.ac.uk/cedex/semina...

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

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...

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

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.