Journal of Economic Psychology

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Volume 116, issue C, 2026

Monetary Incentives, environmental concern, and the intention–behaviour gap: Evidence from a litter cleanup field experiment

Claire Mouminoux and Laetitia Dillenseger

Replication: Dictator Games with different endowment sources

Diego Aycinena, Francesco Bogliacino and Erik O. Kimbrough

Raising awareness of the cost-competitiveness of renewable energy technologies through interactive communication tools–quasi-experimental evidence11Acknowledgments: This work was conducted as part of the Power2U Project and supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economics and Climate Action (ID: 03EI5226A) as part of the “Energy Transition and Society” program. We would like to thank all those who scientifically or practically supported our project. Special thanks go to Michael Conrad (Renewable Energy Agency) and Moritz Mottschall (Öko-Institut) for their practical support and Jane Zagorski and Josephine Bokowski for their language support.Data availability statement: Data and code are available via this link: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21045092Declaration of interest statement: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.Keywords: awareness, cost-competitiveness, pro-environmental behavior, heat pumps, electric vehicles

Andreas Deuß, Gonzalo Haefner, Ellen Matthies and Karolin Schmidt

Hot flashes, cold feet? No evidence of a menopause effect on risk preferences

Helena Fornwagner

Exploiting the machine: Human cooperation with artificial agents in prisoner's dilemma

Iván Barreda-Tarrazona, Ainhoa Jaramillo-Gutiérrez, Marina Pavan and Gerardo Sabater-Grande

Trust behaviour of sexual minorities: Evidence from a large-scale trust game experiment

Francesco Berlingieri, Matija Kovacic and Elena Stepanova

Inequity aversion in subjective evaluations: evidence from referees' decisions in soccer11We would like to thank the Editor, Carlos Alos-Ferrer, and three anonymous referees for insightful comments and suggestions. We also thank Carlo Devillanova, Marco Alberto De Benedetto, Maria De Paola, Davide Fiaschi, Balint Menyhert, Giuseppe Migali, Paolo Naticchioni, Roberto Nisticò, Francesco Principe and participants of the online ROSES seminar, particularly James Reade, Peter Dawson, Stefan Szymanski, Alex Krumer, Raphael Flepp, Jorge Tovar, as well as seminar participants at the 2024 AIEL Conference (Naples), for helpful discussions and feedback.Data availability: The dataset and replication code used in this study are publicly available at the Open Science Framework (OSF). Readers can download the data and replication materials at the following URL: https://osf.io/kz6agThe authors declare that they have no competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper

Leo Morabito and Vincenzo Scoppa

Less flights, more trains: implicit and explicit labeling interventions to encourage sustainable travel behavior change

Catalina Estrada-Mejia, Giulia Granato and Suzanne Hiemstra-van Mastrigt

Panel conditioning in measuring financial behavior and expectations

Alexandru Cernat, Joseph W. Sakshaug, Bella Struminskaya, Susanne Helmschrott and Tobias Schmidt

Replication: Beyond gains and losses by Mishra and Fiddick (2012)

Florian van Leeuwen, Žiga Puklavec and Christoph Kogler

Volume 115, issue C, 2026

The impact of environmental risk information on beliefs and home insurance decisions

Giovanni Burro, Alessandro Castagnetti, Alessandra Cillo and Giovanni Paolo Crespi

Measuring worries about climate change: The effect of a subtle wording change

Lieke Voorintholt, Adriaan Soetevent and Gerard J. van den Berg

Strategic misreporting on tax evasion: Uncovering social desirability bias through integrated list-vignette experiments

Andris Saulītis

In-group bias in natural groups of soldiers

Janina Kraus and Fabian Paetzel

Do we trust humans or AI more? — Experimental evidence on individual and group trust behavior

Hanna de Boer, Hao Luo, Oliver Musshoff and Daniel Hermann

Self-efficacy boosts triple the effectiveness of pro-environmental recycling interventions: evidence from meta-analytic synthesis

Subodh Vinchurkar and Sarthak Gaurav

Narrative forecasts

Yuting Chen, Maurizio Montone, Pablo Pastor y Camarasa and Valerio Potì

Spillover effects from competitive rank-and-yank systems on employees' other-regarding behavior11Authors have contributed equally and are listed alphabetically. We thank seminar participants at the University of Arizona and Texas Tech University, and conference participants at the 2021 and 2022 Economics Science Association meeting and the 2022 International Conference on Social Dilemmas for helpful comments and suggestions. All data and a full copy of all the experimental materials, including instructions and screenshots, are available on OSF via the following link: https://osf.io/9hu4n/?view_only=35704c5988c3422c9c8cf5850ce8d719

Eric Cardella, Tamar Kugler and Kyle Mao

Training minds, shaping policies: Evidence from a behavioral economics course for public officials

Karina Márquez and Carlos Scartascini

Volume 114, issue C, 2026

When choice matters: The asymmetric effects of precommitment implementation on healthy food choice

Marta Favara, Joanna Mihaylova and Alan Sánchez

Natural disasters, environmental values, and the importance of politics: Empirical evidence from worldwide survey data

Sven Fischer and LeeAnn Patterson

Leaving money on the table

Mackenzie Alston, Tatyana Deryugina and Olga Shurchkov

Rank reversal aversion, inequality aversion, or favoring merit? Motives behind distributive decisions in the disinterested dictator game

Esteban Freidin, Anabel Belaus, Cecilia Reyna and Iván Ferreyra Marchuk

How group deliberation shapes distributional preferences: An experimental analysis

João V. Ferreira, Erik Schokkaert and Benoît Tarroux

Validating a survey measure of conditional cooperation

Francesco Fallucchi, Andrea Marietta Leina and Simone Quercia

Motivate the crowd or crowd them out? Experimental evidence on the impact of local government spending on the voluntary provision of a green public good

Lara Bartels and Martin Kesternich

Volume 113, issue C, 2026

Females Welcome! When immigrants make the native population happy

Hilke Brockmann and Roger Fernandez-Urbano

Information combination and preference reversals: Eye-tracking data

Raúl López-Pérez and Eli Spiegelman

The sober outlook of proficient investors –Characterizing competence through canonical correlation analysis

Doron Sonsino, Patrik Michaelsen, Tommy Gärling and Magnus Jansson

Out of sight is out of mind? Experimentally testing a gradually materializing public bad

Alexander Egberts, Christoph Engel and Joshua Fairfield

From individual choices to the four-eyes principle: The big robber game revisited among financial professionals and students

Armando Holzknecht, Sebastian Bachler, Jürgen Huber and Michael Kirchler

Replication: No action ‘Bias’ among elite soccer goalkeepers during penalty kicks

Rishav Singh and Sumitava Mukherjee

Measuring employers’ demand for personality traits in job ads

Vera Brenčič and Andrew McGee

Aging and financial risk-taking: A meta-analysis

Erica Ordali and Chiara Rapallini

Volume 112, issue C, 2026

Scarcity mindset as a predictor of cryptocurrency investments

George Rooney and Cäzilia Loibl

Conflict frames in the wild: win-lose frames are more common, but mixed and win-win frames are more effective

Johann M. Majer, John-Oliver Engler, Emma Saxena and Andreas Mojzisch

Would you lie for me? Lying behavior in a principal-agent relationship

Christoph Bühren, Astrid Dannenberg and Elina Wiederhold

Paying none, some or all? Between-subject random incentives and preferences towards risk and time

Noémi Berlin, Emmanuel Kemel, Vincent Lenglin and Antoine Nebout

It’s not my money: How windfall income enhances donation

Ling Kuai and Haiying Wei

Outcome bias in managerial decisions

Jan C. van Ours

Intuitive prosociality: heterogeneous treatment effects or false positive?

Amanda Kvarven, Eirik Strømland and Gaute Torsvik

Volume 111, issue C, 2025

Overconfidence and preferences for gun use: Evidence from six countries in the Americas

Fernando G. Cafferata, Patricio Dominguez Rivera and Carlos Scartascini

Investigating the empirical validity of salience theory: The role of display format effects

Christoph Ostermair

Income and boredom: Evidence from 30 countries

Sergio Pirla, Daniel Navarro-Martinez, Stefan Pfattheicher and Jordi Quoidbach

Transcranial stimulation over the right temporoparietal junction decreases outcome bias

Jianbiao Li, Zenghui Liu and Xiaofei Niu

Economic crimes and trust toward political institutions: evidence from online fraud victimization and related policy interventions in Italy

Flaviana Palmisano

Volume 110, issue C, 2025

Trust, risk, and institutions: experimental evidence from a community of firms in Kenya

Maria Porter, Ahmed Salim Nuhu, Eduardo Nakasone and Mywish Maredia

The impact of language on decision-making: Auction winners are less cursed in a foreign language

Fang Fu, Leigh H. Grant, Ali Hortacsu, Boaz Keysar, Jidong Yang and Karen Ye

Multidimensional tax compliance attitude

Christoffer Bruns, Martin Fochmann, Peter N.C. Mohr and Benno Torgler

Volume 109, issue C, 2025

Economic consequences of gender differences in behavior

Jaume García-Segarra, Iñigo Hernandez-Arenaz and Pedro Rey-Biel

Corrigendum to “Shaping societal norms: Experimental evidence on the normative impact of free speech law” [J. Econ. Psychol. 107 (2025) 102799]

Daniel L. Chen

Tax aversion as an implicit phenomenon

Giulia Sesini, Cinzia Castiglioni, Paola Iannello and Edoardo Lozza

Keep them out of It! How information externalities affect the willingness to sell personal data online

Tim Friehe, Leonie Gerhards and Franziska Weber

Temperatures and trust: Survey evidence on the role of climate in shaping trust in people and institutions

Karin Hansson and Alexander Popov

Evaluation mode affects choice of healthy and unhealthy Food: The role of taste and healthiness attribute evaluability

Sadaf Mokarram-Dorri and Siegfried Dewitte