May 27, 2026

Happy to be part of the organizing team of the International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sciences (IMEBESS). The conference takes place in Prague.
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May 22, 2026

Aron Szekely (UCL) and I are honored to lead this multi-site project together with the experimental sociology community. If you are interested in participating, please apply for one of the open roles in the project.
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October 9, 2025

Proud to be awarded the (worldwide) first ever Replication Prize in the social sciences together with Sergio Lo Iacono, Vincent Buskens, Rense Corten, Marcel van Assen and Arnout van de Rijt. Our paper reports the results of an exact multilab replication of a cornerstone experimental study on the competitive advantage of sanctioning institutions. Our replication project was financed by the Duch Science Foundation. The Replication Prize is awarded by the Academy of Sociology, a professional scientific association promoting analytical-empirical social science.
Open access to our award-winning paper »»
Award ceremony at the 5th Conference of the Academy of Sociology in Mainz »»

August 7, 2025

I am honored to be the 10th Vienna Karl Polanyi Visiting Professor for the fall term 2025. During my visit, I will hold a PhD-seminar, a workshop at Central European University and a public lecture. The topic of the PhD-seminar will be “Markets, Morals and Norms: Social and Economic Exchange in the Digital Society”. The seminar will comprise lectures, class discussions, group assignments and student presentations. It will revolve around the question how digital and social transformations reconfigure the foundations of economic life.
The event website can be accessed here »»
The PhD-seminar description can be found here »»

July 1, 2025

This paper concludes a most exciting project on the “Sustainability of Public Goods in a Changing Society”, which was part of the Gravitation program grant “Sustainable Cooperation – Roadmaps to Resilient Societies (SCOOP)”, financed by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.
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May 6, 2025

Something I have pondered over for quite some time has now surfaced in form of this Annual Review piece. I hope this compilation of arguments, evidence and thoughts will help bringing signaling theory to the next level in sociology.
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