Rationality and Society

1989 - 2026

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Volume 38, issue 2, 2026

The social dilemma of online segregation: A dynamical model of platform choice pp. 137-183

Sven Banisch, Dennis Jacob, Tom Willaert and Eckehard Olbrich

Hoarding without hoarders: Opportunity hoarding in the absence of exclusionary behaviors pp. 184-221

João M. Souto-Maior

Truth-commitment and constitutional choice pp. 222-248

Niclas Berggren

Advantageous candidates and the selection process pp. 249-264

Artyom Jelnov

Forum: Position statements, discussion, debate pp. 265-266

Andreas Flache

Standards in sociology: A position statement at the 25th anniversary of the European Academy of Sociology pp. 267-280

Ozan Aksoy, Gianluca Manzo, Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund and Werner Raub

Volume 38, issue 1, 2026

Reviewer Acknowledgements pp. 3-5

Andreas Flache and Alla Loseva

How to integrate theories of norm emergence. The example of James S. Coleman’s and Robert C. Ellickson’s theories pp. 6-41

Karl-Dieter Opp

The game of the name: A fundamental analysis of the institution of names pp. 42-74

Laurent Gauthier

Easy targets: Religious vulnerability to predatory crime pp. 75-101

Katie E Corcoran, Corey J Colyer, Rachel E Stein and Bernard D DiGregorio

The nominal share price anchor: A theoretical model of social norms and behavioral martingales in stock markets pp. 102-134

Fei Qiu, Yinghao Sheng, Jienv Jin, Hao Li and Xiaojie Li

Volume 37, issue 4, 2025

Brexit voters: Who has changed their mind? pp. 423-450

Sofia Izquierdo Sanchez and Alper Kara

Manifestation of labor discrimination in the academe through workload disparity based on marital status and sex pp. 451-473

Paul Allen Yabut and Jefferson Arapoc

Social value orientation and learning in repeated step-level public goods games: An experimental investigation pp. 474-512

Loes Bouman and Jacob Dijkstra

‘Rational choice theory’ and moral behavior: A reconsideration pp. 513-536

Alfonso Palacio-Vera

Minds and cooperation pp. 537-552

Jiabin Wu

Volume 37, issue 3, 2025

Limits of rationality? Moral foundations and polarization in attitudes towards diversity in Germany pp. 273-299

Michael Windzio

The step-level public good aspect of equity crowdfunding: A game-theoretic analysis pp. 300-337

Alex Barrachina and Eduardo Jiménez-Fernández

Multiple teams and the volunteer’s dilemma pp. 338-355

Kai A. Konrad

Network formation dynamics in asymmetric coordination games pp. 356-394

Francesco Renzini

Rational irrationality: A conceptual defense pp. 395-420

Aylon Manor

Volume 37, issue 2, 2025

Cooperation through rational investments in social organization pp. 137-169

Anna Sokolova, Vincent Buskens and Werner Raub

Effects of frames and incentives on prosociality in the lab. Comparing abstract and realistic scenarios pp. 170-200

Davide Barrera, Sara Romanò and Giulia Bocca

Competing norms and shifting saliences. How norm beliefs affected behavior among Dutch health care interns during the COVID-19 lockdown pp. 201-229

Thomas Teekens, Francesca Giardini and Rafael Wittek

Exploring voter turnout dynamics in polarized elections: A group-rule utilitarian framework pp. 230-263

Mariam Arzumanyan

Explaining mobilization for revolts by private interests and kinship relations. A response to the comment by Nieva pp. 264-270

Niccolò Giorgio Armandola, Malte Doehne and Katja Rost

Volume 37, issue 1, 2025

Why the political party that supports social welfare programs is advantaged in campaign fundraising pp. 3-34

Noah P Mark

Beliefs, strategic interaction, and Hong Kong’s anti-extradition law movement: A game-theoretic analysis pp. 35-64

Theodore Charm

Promises betrayed? Ideological commitments and revolutionary outcomes pp. 65-92

Matthew Toro and Steven Pfaff

Collective intentions of the social economy: An experiment on the community currency of the French Basque country pp. 93-125

Hayyan Alia-Thorey and Eli Spiegelman

Book Review: The Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism, Vol. 1 & 2 pp. 126-134

Thomas Voss

Volume 36, issue 4, 2024

Is aiming high always a good thing? A behavioral model of aspiration failure with evidence from lower-secondary students in China pp. 409-447

Shuangda Wei

Managing and aggregating group evidence under quality and quantity trade-offs pp. 448-479

Zoi Terzopoulou, Patricia Mirabile and Pien Spekreijse

A strategic model of polytheism pp. 480-501

Laurent Gauthier

Persistent and self-perpetuating political differences between neighbouring communities pp. 502-527

Afiq bin Oslan

Official media use, political participation, and government trust structure. An empirical study based on the attitude of Chinese netizens pp. 528-557

Qian Hu and Yanping Pu

Volume 36, issue 3, 2024

Untangling expectations and sacrifices: Ultra-Orthodox men in Israel and the religious club model pp. 289-311

Yossi Perelman and Chen Goldberg

Building a reputation for trustworthiness: Experimental evidence on the role of the feedback rate pp. 312-344

Ruohuang Jiao, Wojtek Przepiorka and Vincent Buskens

Martial races as clubs? The institutional logic of the martial race system of British India pp. 345-372

Charles Miller

Refined tastes, coarse tastes: Solving the stratification-of-goods enigma pp. 373-400

Elias L Khalil

Explaining mobilization for revolts by private interests and kinship relations. A comment on Armandola, Doehne and Rost pp. 401-406

Ricardo Nieva

Volume 36, issue 2, 2024

Does improved upward social mobility foster frustration and conflict? A large-scale online experiment testing Boudon’s model pp. 157-182

Joël Berger, Andreas Diekmann and Stefan Wehrli

Graduated sanctioning, endogenous institutions and sustainable cooperation in common-pool resources: An experimental test pp. 183-229

Fijnanda van Klingeren and Vincent Buskens

The role of generalized trust and control in the employment of domestic help – An experimental case study for Germany and the UK pp. 230-253

Martin Abraham, Natascha Nisic, Miriam Trübner, Hanna Walch and Anja Wunder

Explaining mobilization for revolts by private interests and kinship relations pp. 254-285

Niccolò G. Armandola, Malte Doehne and Katja Rost

Volume 36, issue 1, 2024

Reviewer Acknowledgements pp. 3-4

Andreas Flache and Jonas Stein

Externality and taboo: Resolving the Judaic pig puzzle pp. 5-33

Peter Leeson, Vincent Geloso and Nicholas A Snow

High realistic aspirations – Do normative pressures overthrow rational calculations? Applying the model of frame selection to the educational aspirations of immigrant and majority students in Germany pp. 34-65

Miriam Schmaus, Melanie Olczyk, Sebastian Neumeyer and Gisela Will

Public preferences to trade-off gains in total health for health equality: Discrepancies between an abstract scenario versus the real-world scenario presented by COVID-19 pp. 66-92

David A Comerford, Angela Tufte-Hewett and Emma K Bridger

Cooperation sustainability in small groups: Exogenous and endogenous dynamics of the sustainability of cooperation pp. 93-121

Zeynep Melis Kirgil and Rafael Wittek

Reconsidering Miranda rights: Modeling strategic action during the invocation stage of a police interrogation pp. 122-153

Robert D Mason and Marianne Mason