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77
Citations
32960
World Ranking
321
National Ranking
232

Overview

Gary Charness was affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily focused on social sciences, with particular attention to experimental behavioral economics studies, decision-making and behavioral economics, culture, economy and development studies, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, social and intergroup psychology, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, and misinformation and its impacts.

Their work spanned various subfields of study, including safety research, sociology and political science, general decision sciences, demography, and artificial intelligence.

Gary Charness published extensively in several venues, frequently contributing to the SSRN Electronic Journal, AEA Randomized Controlled Trials, the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Economics Letters, and the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.

Some of the recent papers authored by Gary Charness include:

  • Social Identity, Group Behavior, and Teams, 2020, Annual Review of Economics
  • Do measures of risk attitude in the laboratory predict behavior under risk in and outside of the laboratory?, 2020, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
  • Experimental methods: Eliciting beliefs, 2021, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • What is considered deception in experimental economics?, 2021, Experimental Economics
  • Social Preferences: Fundamental Characteristics and Economic Consequences, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal

The scientist collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Uri Gneezy, Daniela Grieco, Brian Jabarian, J. Lucas Reddinger, and David I. Levine.

Best Publications

  • Understanding Social Preferences with Simple Tests

    Gary B Charness;Matthew Rabin

  • Promises and partnership

    Gary Charness;Martin Dufwenberg

  • Strong Evidence for Gender Differences in Risk Taking

    Gary Charness;Uri Gneezy

  • Experimental methods: Between-subject and within-subject design

    Gary Charness;Uri Gneezy;Michael A. Kuhn

  • Experimental methods: Eliciting risk preferences

    Gary Charness;Uri Gneezy;Uri Gneezy;Alex Imas

  • Incentives to Exercise

    Gary B Charness;Uri Gneezy

  • Individual Behavior and Group Membership

    Gary Charness;Luca Rigotti;Aldo Rustichini

  • The strategy versus the direct-response method: a first survey of experimental comparisons

    Jordi Brandts;Gary Charness

  • What's in a name? Anonymity and social distance in dictator and ultimatum games

    Gary Charness;Uri Gneezy

  • Understanding Social Preference with Simple Tests

    Gary Charness;Matthew Rabin

  • Attribution and Reciprocity in an Experimental Labor Market

    Gary B Charness

  • The Dark Side of Competition for Status

    Gary Charness;David Masclet;Marie Claire Villeval

  • Lab Labor: What Can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab?

    Gary Charness;Peter J Kuhn

  • Hot vs. Cold: Sequential Responses and Preference Stability in Experimental Games

    Jordi Brandts;Gary Charness

  • Groups Make Better Self-Interested Decisions

    Gary Charness;Matthias Sutter

  • PORTFOLIO CHOICE AND RISK ATTITUDES: AN EXPERIMENT

    Gary Charness;Uri Gneezy

  • When Optimal Choices Feel Wrong: A Laboratory Study of Bayesian Updating, Complexity, and Affect

    Gary Charness;Dan Levin

  • Self-Serving Cheap Talk: A Test Of Aumann's Conjecture

    Gary Charness

  • Does Pay Inequality Affect Worker Effort? Experimental Evidence

    Gary Charness;Peter Kuhn

  • Experimental methods: Pay one or pay all

    Gary Charness;Uri Gneezy;Brianna Halladay

  • Relative payoffs and happiness: an experimental study

    Gary B Charness;Brit Grosskopf

Frequent Co-Authors

Marie Claire Villeval
Marie Claire Villeval Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Uri Gneezy
Uri Gneezy University of California, San Diego
Jordi Brandts
Jordi Brandts Instituto de Análisis Económico
Peter Kuhn
Peter Kuhn University of California, Santa Barbara
David I. Levine
David I. Levine University of California, Berkeley
Martin Dufwenberg
Martin Dufwenberg University of Arizona
Ernan Haruvy
Ernan Haruvy McGill University
Aldo Rustichini
Aldo Rustichini University of Minnesota
Matthew Rabin
Matthew Rabin Harvard University
Edi Karni
Edi Karni Johns Hopkins University

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