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Roberto A. Weber

Roberto A. Weber

University of Zurich
Switzerland

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

Law
Microeconomics
Social psychology

Roberto A. Weber spends much of his time researching Social psychology, Dictator game, Coordination game, Microeconomics and Altruism. His Social psychology study combines topics in areas such as Positive economics and Behavioral economics. His Dictator game research includes themes of Baseline, Generosity, Public finance and Adverse selection.

His studies in Coordination game integrate themes in fields like Outcome, Distributed computing and Game theory. Roberto A. Weber has researched Microeconomics in several fields, including Marketing and Organizational culture. He interconnects Conducta prosocial, Prosocial behavior, Norm and Subsidy in the investigation of issues within Altruism.

His most cited work include:

Exploiting moral wiggle room: experiments demonstrating an illusory preference for fairness (703 citations)
Cultural Conflict and Merger Failure: An Experimental Approach (395 citations)
IDENTIFYING SOCIAL NORMS USING COORDINATION GAMES: WHY DOES DICTATOR GAME SHARING VARY? (313 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Roberto A. Weber mainly focuses on Social psychology, Microeconomics, Incentive, Coordination game and Dictator game. His work deals with themes such as Preference and Value, which intersect with Social psychology. His work in Microeconomics addresses subjects such as Social responsibility, which are connected to disciplines such as Scope.

His Coordination game study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Distributed computing, Operations management, Equilibrium selection, Behavior change and Outcome. His Dictator game study incorporates themes from Altruism, Norm and Generosity. The various areas that Roberto A. Weber examines in his Externality study include Competition, Product market and Price premium.

He most often published in these fields:

Social psychology (37.76%)
Microeconomics (30.07%)
Incentive (25.17%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2018-2021)?

Social psychology (37.76%)
Harm (13.29%)
Replication (2.80%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His scientific interests lie mostly in Social psychology, Harm, Replication, Incentive and Cynicism. His Social psychology research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Coordination game and Action. Roberto A. Weber combines subjects such as Wage, Preference and Value with his study of Harm.

His Replication study incorporates themes from Entrepreneurship, Asset, Behavioral economics and Monetary economics. His Incentive research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Absolute, Order and Simple. Roberto A. Weber performs integrative Sorting and Social preferences research in his work.

Between 2018 and 2021, his most popular works were:

The Leadership Quarterly: State of the journal (16 citations)
On the scope of externalities in experimental markets (7 citations)
Fool Me Once: An Experiment on Credibility and Leadership (2 citations)

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Best Publications

Exploiting moral wiggle room: experiments demonstrating an illusory preference for fairness

Jason Dana;Roberto A. Weber;Jason Xi Kuang.
Economic Theory (2007)

1455 Citations

Cultural Conflict and Merger Failure: An Experimental Approach

Roberto A. Weber;Colin F. Camerer.
Management Science (2003)

868 Citations

IDENTIFYING SOCIAL NORMS USING COORDINATION GAMES: WHY DOES DICTATOR GAME SHARING VARY?

Erin L. Krupka;Roberto A. Weber.
Journal of the European Economic Association (2013)

757 Citations

Sorting in Experiments with Application to Social Preferences

Edward P Lazear;Ulrike Malmendier;Roberto A Weber.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2012)

398 Citations

Self-Interest through Delegation: An Additional Rationale for the Principal-Agent Relationship

John R Hamman;George F. Loewenstein;Roberto A. Weber.
The American Economic Review (2010)

361 Citations

The focusing and informational effects of norms on pro-social behavior.

Erin Krupka;Roberto A. Weber.
Journal of Economic Psychology (2009)

328 Citations

Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics

Thomas Astebro;Holger Herz;Ramana Nanda;Roberto Weber.
Journal of Economic Perspectives (2014)

327 Citations

The Illusion of Leadership: Misattribution of Cause in Coordination Games

Roberto Weber;Colin Camerer;Yuval Rottenstreich;Marc Knez.
Organization Science (2001)

294 Citations

Managing Growth to Achieve Efficient Coordination in Large Groups

Roberto A. Weber.
The American Economic Review (2006)

277 Citations

Assessing the Robustness of Power Posing No Effect on Hormones and Risk Tolerance in a Large Sample of Men and Women

Eva Ranehill;Anna Dreber;Magnus Johannesson;Susanne Leiberg.
Psychological Science (2015)

253 Citations

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