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Overview

Daniel Houser is affiliated with George Mason University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in social sciences, focusing on areas including safety research, economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, general decision sciences, and management science and operations research.

Their research primarily centers on experimental behavioral economics studies, decision-making and behavioral economics, game theory and applications, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, complex systems and time series analysis, culture, economy and development studies, and sports analytics and performance.

Frequent collaborators in their work include Jian Song, Jianxin Wang, Moumita Roy, Shan Gui, and Junhuan Zhang.

They have published regularly in several academic venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • European Economic Review
  • Economics Letters
  • The Singapore Economic Review

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Daniel Houser include:

  • Checking out temptation: A natural experiment with purchases at the grocery register, 2021, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • The aspirational income hypothesis: On the limits of the relative income hypothesis, 2020, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Vulnerability of scale-free cryptocurrency networks to double-spending attacks, 2021, European Journal of Finance
  • If wages fell during a recession, 2020, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Non-exclusive group contests: An experimental analysis, 2021, Journal of Economic Psychology

Best Publications

  • A Functional Imaging Study of Cooperation in Two-Person reciprocal Exchange

    Kevin McCabe;Daniel Houser;Lee Ryan;Vernon Smith

  • Reputation in Auctions: Theory, and Evidence from eBay ∗

    Daniel Houser;John Wooders

  • Emotion expression in human punishment behavior

    Erte Xiao;Daniel Houser

  • Experiments investigating cooperative types in humans: A complement to evolutionary theory and simulations

    Robert Kurzban;Daniel Houser

  • Emotion regulation and decision making under risk and uncertainty.

    Renata M. Heilman;Liviu G. Crişan;Daniel Houser;Mircea Miclea

  • Anxiety impairs decision-making: Psychophysiological evidence from an Iowa Gambling Task

    Andrei C. Miu;Renata M. Heilman;Daniel Houser

  • Fairness and Cheating

    Daniel Houser;Stefan Vetter;Joachim Winter

  • Distinguishing trust from risk: An anatomy of the investment game

    Daniel Houser;Daniel Schunk;Joachim Winter

  • DISPOSITION, HISTORY AND CONTRIBUTIONS IN PUBLIC GOODS EXPERIMENTS *

    Anna Gunnthorsdottir;Daniel Houser;Kevin McCabe

  • Revisiting Kindness and Confusion in Public Goods Experiments

    Daniel Houser;Robert Kurzban

  • Individual differences in cooperation in a circular public goods game

    Robert Kurzban;Daniel Houser

  • When punishment fails: Research on sanctions, intentions and non-cooperation

    Daniel Edward Houser;Erte Xiao;Kevin McCabe;Vernon Smith

  • BEHAVIOR IN A DYNAMIC DECISION PROBLEM: AN ANALYSIS OF EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE USING A BAYESIAN TYPE CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM

    Daniel Houser;Michael Keane;Kevin McCabe

  • Classification of natural language messages using a coordination game

    Daniel Edward Houser;Erte Xiao

  • What you don’t know won’t hurt you: a laboratory analysis of betrayal aversion

    Jason A. Aimone;Daniel Houser

  • Avoiding the Sharp Tongue: Anticipated Written Messages Promote Fair Economic Exchange

    Erte Xiao;Daniel Edward Houser

  • Leadership, cheap talk and really cheap talk

    David M Levy;Kail Padgitt;Sandra Peart;Daniel Edward Houser

  • Neural signatures of betrayal aversion: an fMRI study of trust

    Jason A. Aimone;Daniel Houser;Bernd Weber;Bernd Weber

  • Neural responses to sanction threats in two-party economic exchange

    Jian Li;Erte Xiao;Daniel Edward Houser;P Read Montague

  • Punish in Public

    Erte Xiao;Daniel Edward Houser

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Kurzban
Robert Kurzban University of Pennsylvania
Philip J. Grossman
Philip J. Grossman Monash University
Lee Ryan
Lee Ryan University of Arizona
Antoine Bechara
Antoine Bechara University of Southern California
P. Read Montague
P. Read Montague Virginia Tech
Bernd Weber
Bernd Weber University of Bonn
Sarah F. Brosnan
Sarah F. Brosnan Georgia State University
Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely Duke University
Frans B. M. de Waal
Frans B. M. de Waal Emory University
Richard P. Ebstein
Richard P. Ebstein Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

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