Ernst Fehr

Research interests

Publications

• Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences

  Nature Genetics · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-018-0309-3

• Redefine statistical significance

  Nature Human Behaviour · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0189-z

• On the psychology of poverty

  Science · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1232491

• The role of testosterone in social interaction

  Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2011.04.008

• Oxytocin Shapes the Neural Circuitry of Trust and Trust Adaptation in Humans

  Neuron · 2008 · 10.1016/j.neuron.2008.04.009

• Egalitarianism in young children

  Nature · 2008 · 10.1038/nature07155

• Human Motivation and Social Cooperation: Experimental and Analytical Foundations

  Annual Review of Sociology · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.33.040406.131812

• Parochial altruism in humans

  Nature · 2006 · 10.1038/nature04981

• Diminishing Reciprocal Fairness by Disrupting the Right Prefrontal Cortex

  Science · 2006 · 10.1126/science.1129156

• “Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies

  Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 2005 · 10.1017/s0140525x05000142

• Oxytocin increases trust in humans

  Nature · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature03701

• The Neural Basis of Altruistic Punishment

  Science · 2004 · 10.1126/science.1100735

• Third-party punishment and social norms

  Evolution and Human Behavior · 2004 · 10.1016/s1090-5138(04)00005-4

• Foundations of Human Sociality

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2004 · 10.1093/0199262055.001.0001

• Social norms and human cooperation

  Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 2004 · 10.1016/j.tics.2004.02.007

• Explaining altruistic behavior in humans

  Evolution and Human Behavior · 2003 · 10.1016/s1090-5138(02)00157-5

• Why Social Preferences Matter – the Impact of non‐Selfish Motives on Competition, Cooperation and Incentives

  The Economic Journal · 2002 · 10.1111/1468-0297.00027

• Altruistic punishment in humans

  Nature · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1038/415137a

• Strong reciprocity, human cooperation, and the enforcement of social norms

  Alexandria (UniSG) (University of St.Gallen) · 2002 · 10.1007/s12110-002-1012-7

• Are people conditionally cooperative? Evidence from a public goods experiment

  Economics Letters · 2001 · 10.1016/s0165-1765(01)00394-9

• In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies

  American Economic Review · 2001 · 10.1257/aer.91.2.73

• Fairness and Retaliation: The Economics of Reciprocity

  The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.14.3.159

• Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments

  American Economic Review · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.90.4.980

• A Theory of Fairness, Competition, and Cooperation

  The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1162/003355399556151

• A Theory of Fairness, Competition and Cooperation

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 1998 · 10.2139/ssrn.106228

• Reciprocity as a Contract Enforcement Device: Experimental Evidence

  Econometrica · 1997 · 10.2307/2171941

• Does Fairness Prevent Market Clearing? An Experimental Investigation

  The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1993 · 10.2307/2118338

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