Die Armutsquote in Deutschland hat ein Rekordhoch erreicht. Die verheerenden Auswirkungen erlebt Cansin Köktürk bei ihrer täglichen Arbeit als Sozialarbeiterin hautnah: In Kitas, in Schulen, in der ambulanten Jugendhilfe, in Notunterkünften und in den Städten, die am stärksten davon...

People behave pro-socially in a wide variety of situations that standard economic theory is unable to explain. Social comparison is one explanation for such pro-social behavior: people contributeif others contribute or cooperate as well....

This dissertation comprises of three independent essays which introduce novel psychologically inspired process models and examine their implications for individual, collective or market behavior. The first essay studies multi-attribute choice as a guided process of search. It puts forward a...

There is by now ample evidence from laboratory experiments that individuals exhibit "prosocial" or "other-regarding" preferences. However, a key question is whether the importance of other-regarding preferences documented in the laboratory can be readily generalized to draw conclusions about the...

We use laboratory experiments to study the causal effects of favorable and unfavorable competitive market experience on cooperation in a subsequent social dilemma game. The issues we study are part of the broader topic of whether there are behavioral spillovers between different spheres of...