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Prosocial environments promote individual success - a new study by Isabel Raabe, Alexander Ehlert, René Algesheimer, and Heiko Rauhut
Does altruism lead to success? The study of 292 students across 16 Swiss school classes shows that altruism doesn’t improve grades directly. Instead, altruistic students are more likely to become embedded in prosocial friendship and cooperation networks, and it is this social embeddedness that predicts better academic outcomes. In short, altruism pays off through the social environments it helps create, highlighting how individual costs can be offset by collective benefits.
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What drives scientific misconduct? A new study by Vincent Oberhauser, Antonia Velicu, and Heiko Rauhut identifies alienation and weakened social norms as key factors
Why do scientists engage in misconduct and what are individual and structural drivers for this behavior? In this new study, the authors examine the hidden social dynamics behind questionable research practices and severe scientific misconduct. Drawing on the Zurich Survey of Academics with survey data from scientists in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland their findings challenge a widespread belief: it is not just structural pressure, but feelings of alienation and internalized social norms that shape behavior in science. The study sheds new light on how integrity, norms, and rational choice intersect, and what that means for the future of research culture.
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New article on Questionable Research Practices by Antonia Velicu et al.
How do Swiss, Austrian, and German scientists view questionable research practices? A new article in Scientometrics by Antonia Velicu, Fabian Winter, Justus Rathmann, and Heiko Rauhut investigates the connection between scientists’ associations towards scientific misconduct and its relation to perceived academic success.
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Simon Jantschgi und Heinrich Nax zu Strafzöllen, Spieltheorie und Strategien
In der neuesten Ausgabe «Die Volkswirtschaft» ordnen Simon Jantschgi und Heinrich Nax im Artikel «Zölle und Gegenzölle: Wer spielt welches Spiel?» die neuen handelspolitischen Entwicklungen aus spieltheoretischer Sicht ein.
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Social Norms Conference 2025
From April 30 to May 3, this year's Social Norms Conference on Social Norms Comparison, Conflict, and Change held place at at Centro Stefano Franscini (CSF), Monte Verita, Ascona.
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New Article: Sociologists including Fabian Winter on «Time’s Up? How Temporal Maps of Climate Change Shape Climate Action»
How do people decide when to take action on climate change—and what stops them from doing so? A new study in the prestigious American Sociological Review offers a groundbreaking look at how our beliefs about the past, present, and future of climate change influence whether we take meaningful steps—or remain on the sidelines.
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New Article: SUZ Researchers on «Publication bias in the social sciences since 1959»
Julia Jerke, Antonia Velicu, Fabian Winter, and Heiko Rauhut explore whether publication bias in the social sciences has been aggravated due to the "publish or perish" culture in academia. They analyzed 12340 test statistics extracted from 571 papers published in 1959-2018.
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Workshop to analyse Mobility Networks
This October the 2nd workshop/course for students and researchers that are interested in the statistical analysis of mobility networks is hosted in Zurich.
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Antonia Velicu successfully defends her PhD thesis
We are excited to announce that Dr. Antonia Velicu successfully defended her PhD thesis «All that glitters is not gold: Intersectionality and misconduct in science» last week!
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New publication: «The impact of researchers’ perceived pressure on their publication strategies»
The article was published on March 25 in «Research Evaluation» by researchers of our «Social Norms & Cooperation» team and analyses data from the Zurich Survey of Academics.
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New publication by Nico Mutzner, Vincent Oberhauser, Fabian Winter, Heiko Rauhut:
«Evading the algorithm: increased propensity for tax evasion and norm violations in human-computer interactions»
This Open Access article was published on October 5, 2023, in «Frontiers in Behavioral Enocomics» by researchers of our «Social Norms & Cooperation» team, and is based on the award-winning Master Thesis of Nico Mutzner, who is now our newest doctoral candidate!
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New Paper: Niccolò G. Armandola on detecting clans in elite family dynasties with a network approach
Adding to the research on Florentine and English elite family dynasties, Niccolò Armandola applies a new algorithm for detecting clans in kinship networks on Basel's elite families.
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New publication: Under pressure: The extent and distribution of perceived pressure among scientists in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
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Publication: Perceptions of Scientific Authorship Revisited: Country Differences and the Impact of Perceived Publication Pressure
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Cooperative teammates are made, not chosen
Human social preferences cluster and spread in the field
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