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Overview

Shaul Shalvi is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and specializes in research within the social sciences, with a focus on experimental behavioral economics. Their work spans several subfields including safety research, sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and general decision sciences.

The main topics Shalvi investigates include:

  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Ethics in Business and Education
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Cultural Differences and Values

Frequent publication venues for Shalvi's research include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Psychological Bulletin

Shalvi has collaborated repeatedly with a number of co-authors, including Ivan Soraperra, Margarita Leib, Ori Weisel, Nils Köbis, and Eugen Dimant, with multiple joint publications reflecting ongoing research partnerships.

Some of Shalvi's recent papers comprise:

  • "The Consequences of Participating in the Sharing Economy: A Transparency-Based Sharing Framework" (2020) published in the Journal of Management
  • "Requiem for a Nudge: Framing effects in nudging honesty" (2020) in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • "Collaborative dishonesty: A meta-analytic review." (2021) in Psychological Bulletin
  • "Social mindfulness and prosociality vary across the globe" (2021) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Ignorance by choice: A meta-analytic review of the underlying motives of willful ignorance and its consequences." (2023) in Psychological Bulletin

The body of Shalvi's work addresses behavioral economics from both a theoretical and applied perspective, examining moral and emotional judgments as well as decision-making processes. Their research also explores ethical behavior in business and education settings, cultural influences on social behavior, and the impacts of misinformation.

Best Publications

  • The Neuropeptide Oxytocin Regulates Parochial Altruism in Intergroup Conflict Among Humans

    Carsten K. W. De Dreu;Lindred L. Greer;Michel J. J. Handgraaf;Shaul Shalvi

  • Oxytocin promotes human ethnocentrism

    Carsten K. W. De Dreu;Lindred L. Greer;Gerben A. Van Kleef;Shaul Shalvi

  • Justified ethicality: Observing desired counterfactuals modifies ethical perceptions and behavior

    Shaul Shalvi;Jason Dana;Michel J.J. Handgraaf;Carsten K.W. De Dreu

  • Self-Serving Justifications Doing Wrong and Feeling Moral

    Shaul Shalvi;Francesca Gino;Rachel Barkan;Shahar Ayal

  • Honesty Requires Time (and Lack of Justifications)

    Shaul Shalvi;Ori Eldar;Yoella Bereby-Meyer

  • Shame closely tracks the threat of devaluation by others, even across cultures

    Daniel Sznycer;John Tooby;Leda Cosmides;Roni Porat;Roni Porat

  • The collaborative roots of corruption

    Ori Weisel;Shaul Shalvi

  • Oxytocin promotes group-serving dishonesty

    Shaul Shalvi;Carsten K. W. De Dreu

  • The Herding Hormone Oxytocin Stimulates In-Group Conformity

    Mirre Stallen;Mirre Stallen;Carsten K. W. De Dreu;Shaul Shalvi;Ale Smidts

  • Ethical Manoeuvring: Why People Avoid Both Major and Minor Lies

    Shaul Shalvi;Michel J. J. Handgraaf;Carsten K.W. De Dreu

  • Being Honest About Dishonesty: Correlating Self-Reports and Actual Lying

    Rony Halevy;Shaul Shalvi;Bruno Verschuere

  • Justifications Shape Ethical Blind Spots

    Andrea Pittarello;Margarita Leib;Tom Gordon-Hecker;Shaul Shalvi

  • Psychological distance boosts value-behavior correspondence in ultimatum bargaining and integrative negotiation

    Mauro Giacomantonio;Carsten K.W. De Dreu;Shaul Shalvi;Daniel Sligte

  • Support for redistribution is shaped by compassion, envy, and self-interest, but not a taste for fairness.

    Daniel Sznycer;Daniel Sznycer;Daniel Sznycer;Maria Florencia Lopez Seal;Aaron Sell;Julian Lim

  • Oxytocin motivates non-cooperation in intergroup conflict to protect vulnerable in-group members.

    Carsten K. W. De Dreu;Shaul Shalvi;Lindred L. Greer;Gerben A. Van Kleef

  • Requiem for a Nudge: Framing effects in nudging honesty

    Eugen Dimant;Gerben A. van Kleef;Shaul Shalvi

  • The Consequences of Participating in the Sharing Economy: A Transparency-Based Sharing Framework:

    Nils C. Köbis;Ivan Soraperra;Shaul Shalvi

  • “I cheated, but only a little”: Partial confessions to unethical behavior.

    Eyal Peer;Alessandro Acquisti;Shaul Shalvi

  • Intuitive Honesty Versus Dishonesty: Meta-Analytic Evidence.

    Nils C Köbis;Bruno Verschuere;Yoella Bereby-Meyer;David Rand

  • Getting stuck or stepping back: effects of obstacles and construal level in the negotiation of creative solutions

    Carsten K.W. De Dreu;Mauro Giacomantonio;Shaul Shalvi;Daniel Sligte

  • Emotional justifications for unethical behaviour

    Shaul Shalvi;Jean-Louis Van Gelder;Job Van Der Schalk

Frequent Co-Authors

Carsten K. W. De Dreu
Carsten K. W. De Dreu University of Groningen
Bruno Verschuere
Bruno Verschuere University of Amsterdam
Gerben A. van Kleef
Gerben A. van Kleef University of Amsterdam
Elizabeth Cauffman
Elizabeth Cauffman University of California, Irvine
David G. Rand
David G. Rand Cornell University
Albert Costa
Albert Costa Pompeu Fabra University
Ilana Ritov
Ilana Ritov Hebrew University of Jerusalem
John Tooby
John Tooby University of California, Santa Barbara
Eran Halperin
Eran Halperin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sonja Utz
Sonja Utz Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien

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