2025
2025
Sep 18 – Sep 20, 2025
Keynote: Elke Weber (Princeton) and Eric Johnson (Columbia)
Amnon Maltz
University of Haifa
Interpersonal Trust During Times of Political Unrest
Ranran Li
MPI for the Study of Crime, Security, and Law
Revisiting Situational Strength: Do Strong Situations Restrict Variance in Behaviors?
Wladislaw Mill
University of Freiburg
War Causes Religiosity: Gravestone Evidence from the Vietnam Draft Lottery
Anca Balietti
University of Heidelberg
Zero-Sum Thinking and Support for Redistribution Across Borders
Alisa Frey
University of Würzburg
Redistribution, Moral Hazard, and Voting by Feet: An Experiment
Tim Krieger
University of Freiburg
Inequality, Life Expectancy, and the Alienation Effect: Insights from a Real-Effort Experiment on the Intragenerational Redistribution Puzzle
Gonzalo Arrieta
University of Zurich
Procedural Decision-Making in the Face of Complexity
Christian Zihlmann
Bern University of Applied Sciences
Compressed Beliefs
Gökhan Aydogan
University of Zurich
The Role of Noisy Coding and Serial Dependence in the Description-Experience Gap
Christian Zehnder
University of Lausanne
Charismatic Leadership: An Antidote to the Pitfalls of Incentives?
Evangelia Kyriazi
University of Vienna
How Narcissists Match and Play in Games
Zahra Murad
University of Portsmouth
Breaking Barriers: The Impact of Co-Leadership on the Gender Gap in Leadership Participation
Eric Johnson
Columbia University
Explaining Heterogeneity in Effect Sizes and How to Exploit It for Generalization
Sebastian Goerg
Technical University Munich
Order effects in eliciting preferences
Carlos Alós-Ferrer
Lancaster University
Who Likes It More? Using Response Times To Reveal Group Preferences in Surveys
Carina Hausladen
ETH Zurich
Identifying Latent Intentions via Inverse Reinforcement Learning in Repeated Linear Public Good Games
Susann Adloff
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)
Norms in Collective Decision Making
E. Lance Howe
University of Alaska Anchorage
Cooperation and Communication in a Risky Social Dilemma: Experimental Evidence from the Field
Juliane Koch
Lund University
A good neighbor -- a found treasure: on the voluntary provision of public goods in overlapping neighborhoods
Sorravich Kingsuwankul
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Strategic Incompetence
Christian Thoeni
University of Lausanne
Gender Differences in Preferences: Means, variability, and malleability
Vojtech Bartos
University of Milan
Reaction to Discrimination: Experimental Evidence
Francesco Fallucchi
University of Bergamo
Pluralistic Ignorance and Sustainable Mobility
Felipe Araujo
Lehigh University
Label Uncertainty and Socially Responsible Market Behavior: An Experiment
Luis Santos-Pinto
University of Lausanne
Beyond the Stars: Exploring the Welfare Effects of Ratings in Differentiated Markets
Yu Tinghua
Birkbeck, University of London
Unmasking the enemies: A theory of denunciations
Petros Sekeris
TBS Business School
Time Flies: Cooperation in Repeated Finite Time-Horizon Games
Yu Yaoyao
University of Vienna
Equilibrium Transitions in Sampling Dynamics: An Experimental Investigation
Michela Boldrini
Bocconi University
Negative Emission Technologies and Climate Cooperation
Sebastian Olschewski
University of Basel
Risk and Complexity of Climate Consequences Reduce Sustainable Behavior
Assia Abdelfattah
GAEL University of Grenoble
The acceptability of carbon taxation and regulation under inequality: An experiment
Sandra Andraszewicz
ETH Zurich / Singapore-ETH Centre
Behavioral Foundations of Financial Resilience in the Digital Economy: Evidence from Switzerland and Singapore
Valentina Rotondi
University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)
The Invisible Infrastructure: Rethinking Care, Vulnerability, and the Economy
Alexander Morell
Goethe University Frankfurt
Do German judges treat people with foreign names differently? A vignette experiment
Fidel Petros
WZB Berlin & Berlin School of Economics
Fighting Wasteful Spending through Inter-Unit Transfers in Organizations
Francisco Martinez
University of Fribourg
Subjective performance evaluation in tournaments with asymmetric contestants: Experimental Evidence
César Mantilla
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Information valuation and workers' selection into formal or informal transactions: a lab-in-the-field experiment with street vendors in Bogotá
Elke Weber
Princeton University
Query Theory: A Process Account of Constructed Judgments and Preferences
David Hagmann
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Whodunit: Individualistic Remedies Undermine Support for Systemic Reforms
Ahana Basistha
Technical University Munich
Activating Change: The Role of Information and Beliefs in Online Activism
Sara Khayouti
University of Zurich
The Effect of Reflection on Loan Decisions
Theodore Alysandratos
University of Heidelberg
The behavioral foundations of international anti-bribery laws: Results from an international lab-type experiment
Aljosha Henkel
ETH Zurich
Standing in Prisoners' Shoes: A Randomized Trial on How Incarceration Shapes Criminal Justice Views
Simon Columbus
University of St Andrews
Institutional rules and unfair rule enforcement
The 2nd Matterhorn Symposium was generously supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation and UniDistance Suisse.