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Publications:

 

Daniel Houser, Robert Kurzban, Erte Xiao (forthcoming) “Social and Biological Evidence on Motives for Punishment”, Neuroscience of Decision Making, ed. Oshin Vartanian and David R. Mandel, Psychology Press.

 

Daniel Houser and Erte Xiao (2010) “Understanding Context Effects”,  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.73(1), 58-61

 

Jian Li, Erte Xiao, Daniel Houser and Read Montague. 2009, “Neural responses to sanction threats in two-party economic exchange,”,  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.www.pnas.org_cgi_doi_10.1073_pnas.0908855106

 

Cristina Bicchieri and Erte Xiao. 2009 "Do the right thing: But only if others do so",  Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.22(2), 191-208.

 

Erte Xiao and Daniel Houser. 2009.Avoiding the sharp tongue: Anticipated written messages promote fair economic exchange”, Journal of Economic Psychology. 30(3), 393-404  

 

Daniel Houser, Barbara Sandsand, Erte Xiao. 2009. “Three Parts Natural, Seven Parts Man-Made: Bayesian Analysis of China's Great Leap Forward Demographic Disaster" . Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.69, 148–159.

 

Erte Xiao. 2008. “Emotion expression, decision making and well-being”. In Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, Vol. 20: Neuroeconomics, Daniel Houser and Kevin McCabe(Eds), Elsevier. p161-178.

 

Daniel Houser, Erte Xiao, Kevin McCabe and Vernon Smith. 2008. “When punishment fails: Research on sanctions, intentions and non-cooperation”, Games and Economic Behavior, 62 (2), 509-532.


Daniel Houser, Daniel Schunk, Erte Xiao. 2007 “Combining Brain and Behavioral Data to Improve Econometric Policy Analysis”  Analyse & Kritik 29, 86-96.
 

Erte Xiao and Daniel Houser, 2005 "Emotion Expression in Human Punishment Behavior", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ,102(20), 7398-7401.

*Reprinted in Advances in Cognitive Economics, Boicho Kokinov (Ed.), New Bulgarian University Press, Bulgaria (2006)           
* Reprinted in The New Behavioral Economics, Elias Khalil (Ed.), Edward Elgar Press. Forthcoming.

 


Working Papers:

Daniel Houser and Erte Xiao "Classification of Natural Language Messages Using A Coordination Game". (Revision requested by Experimental Economics).

Erte Xiao and Daniel Houser, Punish in Public”, IZA Discussion Paper No. 1977, (Revision requested by Journal of Public Economics).

Erte Xiao and Cristina Bicchieri "When Equality Trumps Reciprocity" (Revision requested by Journal of Economic Psychology)

Sarah F. Brosnan, Daniel Houser, Kristi Leimgruber, Erte Xiao, Tianwen Chen and Frans B. M. de Waal “Competing demands of prosociality and equity in monkeys”,   (Revision requested by Evolution and Human Behavior)

Erte Xiao and Cristina Bicchieri  "Words or deeds: Choose what to know about others", (under review)

Daniel Houser and Erte Xiao "Inequality seeking punishment",  (under review)

David Levy, Kail Padgitt, Sandra Peart, Daniel Houser and Erte Xiao "Leadership, Cheap Talk and Really Cheap Talk" (Revision requested by Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization)

Erte Xiao "Profit seeking punishment corrupts norm obedience"

Erte Xiao and Howard Kunreuther. "Punishment and Cooperation in Stochastic Prisoner’s Dilemma Game"

Lingfang Li and Erte Xiao "Money Talks? An Experimental Study of Rebate in Reputation System Design"

Daniel Houser and Erte Xiao “Trust and House Money”.

Cristina Bicchieri,  Erte Xiao and Ryan Muldoon.“
Trust if you wish, always reciprocate
 


Research in Progress:

Group Punishment, with Jonathan Baron and Daniel Houser

Norm Obedience in China, with Cristina Bicchieri and Xiangdong Qin

Temptation, Commitment and Self-control in the Laboratory, with Daniel Houser, Daniel Schunk and Joachim Winter.

Working for Self and Working for Others, with Daniel Houser, Kevin McCabe, Steven Saletta


Research Affiliation:

Research Affiliate, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)