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Valerio Capraro
Publications

Publications

2025

  • Battiston F, Capraro V, Karimi F, Lehmann S, Migliano AB, Sadekar O, Sánchez A, Perc M (forthcoming). Higher-order interactions shape human collective behavior. Nature Human Behaviour.

  • Capraro V (2025). Human behaviour through a LENS: How Linguistic content triggers Emotions and Norms and determines Strategy choice. Current Opinion in Psychology, 102024.

  • Capraro V, Rodriguez-Lara I (2025). Moral preferences in ultimatum and impunity games. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 102371.

  • Zickfeld J, et al. [author list abbreviated; includes Capraro V and Mitkidis P] (2025). I Solemnly Swear I'm Up To Good: A Megastudy Investigating the Effectiveness of Honesty Oaths on Curbing Dishonesty. Nature Human Behaviour, 9, 169–187.

  • Civai C, Capraro V, Polonio L (2025). The role of attention and frames on third-party punishment and compensation choices. Cognition, 263, 106192.

  • Capraro V, Di Paolo R, Pizziol V (2025). A publicly available benchmark for assessing Large Language Models' ability to predict how humans balance self-interest and the interest of others. Scientific Reports, 15, 21428.

  • Shalvi S, Levine EE, Thielmann I, Jayawickreme E, Van Rooij B, Teodorescu K, Schurr A, Furr M, et al. [author list abbreviated; includes Capraro V] (2025). The science of honesty: A review and research agenda. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 72, 241–327.

2024

  • Alper S, Toribio-Flórez D, Capraro V, Douglas KM (2024). Stronger conspiracy beliefs are associated with a stronger tendency to act dishonestly and an overestimation of others' dishonesty. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

  • Ruggeri K, Stock F, Haslam SA, Capraro V, Boggio PS, Ellemers N, et al., & Willer R (2024). A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19. Nature, 625, 134–147.

  • Capraro V, Di Paolo R, Perc M, Pizziol V (2024). Language-based game theory in the age of artificial intelligence. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 21, 20230720.

  • Civai C, Elbaek CT, Capraro V (2024). Why scarcity can both increase and decrease prosocial behaviour: a review and theoretical framework for the complex relationship between scarcity and prosociality. Current Opinion in Psychology, 60, 101931.

  • Capraro V (2024). The dual process approach to human sociality: Meta-analytic evidence for a theory of internalized heuristics for self-preservation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 126, 719.

  • Celadin T, Panizza F, Capraro V (2024). Promoting civil discourse on social media using nudges: A tournament of seven interventions. PNAS Nexus, 3, pgae380.

  • Capraro V, Halpern JY, Perc M (2024). From outcome-based to language-based preferences. Journal of Economic Literature, 62, 115–154.

  • Fulgu RA, Capraro V (2024). Surprising gender biases in GPT. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 16, 100533.

2023

  • Capraro V, Celadin T (2023). "I think this news is accurate": Endorsing accuracy decreases the sharing of fake news and increases the sharing of real news. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49, 1635–1645.

  • Capraro V (2023). How to promote cooperation for the well-being of individuals and societies. In Ergonomics and Nudging for Health, Safety and Happiness: Results of SIE 2022, 10–25.

  • Pizziol V, Demaj X, Di Paolo R, Capraro V (2023). Political ideology and generosity around the globe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120, e2219676120.

  • Azevedo F, et al. [author list abbreviated; includes Capraro V and Van Bavel JJ] (2023). Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries. Scientific Data, 10, 272.

  • Celadin T, Capraro V, Pennycook G, Rand DG (2023). Displaying news source trustworthiness ratings reduces sharing intentions for false news posts. Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 1.