Wojtek Przepiorka - Publications

Buskens, V., Corten, R., & Przepiorka, W. (forthcoming). Behavioral experiments in computational social science. In T. Yasseri (Ed.), Handbook of Computational Social Science. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
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Otten, K., Buskens, V., Przepiorka, W., & Ellemers, N. (forthcoming). Protecting public goods or helping free-riders? A real-life moral dilemma in interethnic and intraethnic encounters. Psychological Science. Free-to-read

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Przepiorka, W. (forthcoming). Applications of Signaling Theory in Sociological Scholarship. Annual Review of Sociology, 51.
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Przepiorka, W. (forthcoming). Laboratory experiments. In U. Liebe (Ed.), Handbook of Quantitative Methods in Sociology. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
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Schneck, A., & Przepiorka, W. (forthcoming). Meta-dominance analysis – A tool for the assessment of the quality of digital behavioural data. Social Science Computer Review. Free-to-read

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Jiao, R., Przepiorka, W., & Buskens, V. (2024). Building a reputation for trustworthiness: Experimental evidence on the role of the feedback rate. Rationality and Society, 36(3), 312-344. Free-to-read

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Macanovic, A., & Przepiorka, W. (2024). The Moral Embeddedness of Cryptomarkets: Text Mining Feedback on Economic Exchanges on the Dark Web. Socio-Economic Review, 22(4), 1705-1732.

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Macanovic, A., & Przepiorka, W. (2024). A Systematic Evaluation of Text Mining Methods for Short Texts: Mapping Individuals' Internal States from Online Posts. Behavior Research Methods, 56, 2782-2803.

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Macanovic, A., Tsvetkova, M., Przepiorka, W., & Buskens, V. (2024). Signals of belonging: Emergence of signalling norms as facilitators of trust and parochial cooperation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 379, 20230029. Free-to-read

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Otten, K., Buskens, V., Przepiorka, W., Cherki, B., & Israel, S. (2024). Cooperation, punishment, and group change in multilevel public goods experiments. European Economic Review, 164, 104682. Free-to-read

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Otten, K., Buskens, V., Przepiorka, W., & Ellemers, N. (2024). Social norm dynamics and cooperation in changing groups. Current Opinion in Psychology, 59, 101849. Free-to-read

Hevenstone, D., Fraser, A., Hobi, L., Przepiorka, W., & Geuke, G. (2023). The Impact of Social Impact Bond Financing. Public Administration Review, 83(4), 930-946. Free-to-read

Lo Iacono, S., Przepiorka, W., Buskens, V., Corten, R., van Assen, M., & van de Rijt, A. (2023). The competitive advantage of sanctioning institutions revisited: a multi-lab replication. PNAS Nexus, 2(5), pgad091. Free-to-read

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Przepiorka, W. (2023). Testing sociological theories with digital trace data from online markets. In J. Skopek (Ed.), Research Handbook on Digital Sociology, (pp. 241-257). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
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Wiesli, T., & Przepiorka, W. (2023). Does living in a protected area reduce resource use and promote life satisfaction? Survey results from and around three regional nature parks in Switzerland. Social Indicators Research, 169, 341-364. Free-to-read

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Jiao, R., Przepiorka, W., & Buskens, V. (2022). Moderators of reputation effects in peer-to-peer online markets: a meta-analytic model selection approach. Journal of Computational Social Science, 5, 1041-1067. Free-to-read

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Nunner, H., Przepiorka, W., & Janssen, C. (2022). The Role of Reinforcement Learning in the Emergence of Conventions: Simulation Experiments with the Repeated Volunteer's Dilemma. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 25(1), 7. Free-to-read

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Otten, K., Frey, U. J., Buskens, V., Przepiorka, W., & Ellemers, N. (2022). Human cooperation in changing groups in a large-scale public goods game. Nature Communications, 13, 6399. Free-to-read

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Przepiorka, W., Szekely, A., Andrighetto, G., Diekmann, A., & Tummolini, L. (2022). How Norms Emerge from Conventions (and Change). Socius, 8, 1-16. Free-to-read

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Diekmann, A., & Przepiorka, W. (2021). Trust and Reputation in Historical Markets and Contemporary Online Markets. In A. Maurer (Ed.), Handbook of Economic Sociology for the 21st Century: New Theoretical Approaches, Empirical Studies and Developments (pp. 131-145). Berlin: Springer Nature.
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Horne, C., & Przepiorka, W. (2021). Technology use and norm change in online privacy: Experimental evidence from vignette studies. Information, Communication & Society, 24(9), 1212-1228.
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Jiao, R., Przepiorka, W., & Buskens, V. (2021). Reputation effects in peer-to-peer online markets: A meta-analysis. Social Science Research, 95, 102522. Free-to-read

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Lo Iacono, S., Przepiorka, W., Buskens, V., Corten, R., & van de Rijt, A. (2021). COVID-19 vulnerability and perceived norm violations predict loss of social trust: A pre-post study. Social Science & Medicine, 291, 114513. Free-to-read

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Otten, K., Buskens, V., Przepiorka, W., & Ellemers, N. (2021). Cooperation between newcomers and incumbents: The role of normative disagreements. Journal of Economic Psychology, 87, 102448. Free-to-read

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Przepiorka, W. (2021). Game-theoretic models. In G. Manzo (Ed.), Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology (pp. 414-431). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
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Przepiorka, W., & Aksoy, O. (2021). Does herding undermine the trust enhancing effect of reputation? An empirical investigation with online-auction data. Social Forces, 99(4), 1575-1600. Free-to-read

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Przepiorka, W., Bouman, L., & de Kwaadsteniet, E. W. (2021). The emergence of conventions in the repeated volunteer's dilemma: The role of social value orientation, payoff asymmetries and focal points. Social Science Research, 93, 102488.

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Przepiorka, W., & Diekmann, A. (2021). Parochial cooperation and the emergence of signalling norms. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376, 20200294. Free-to-read

Wu, J., Számadó, S., Barclay, P., Beersma, B., Dores Cruz, T. D., Lo Iacono, S., Nieper, A. S., Peters, K., Przepiorka, W., Tiokhin, L., & van Lange, P. A. M. (2021). Honesty and dishonesty in gossip strategies: a fitness interdependence analysis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376(1838), 20200300.

Ig Nobel Peace Prize, awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research in 2022.

Otten, K., Buskens, V., Przepiorka, W., & Ellemers, N. (2020). Heterogeneous groups cooperate in public good problems despite normative disagreements about individual contribution levels. Scientific Reports, 10, 16702. Free-to-read

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Przepiorka, W. (2020). Soziale Dilemmas. In A. Tutic (Ed.), Rational Choice (pp. 181-199). Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg.
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Przepiorka, W., & Diekmann, A. (2020). Binding Contracts, Non-Binding Promises and Social Feedback in the Intertemporal Common-Pool Resource Game. Games, 11(1), 5. Free-to-read

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Przepiorka, W., & Horne, C. (2020). How can consumer trust in energy utilities be increased? The effectiveness of prosocial, pro-environmental, and service-oriented investments as signals of trustworthiness. Organization & Environment, 33(2), 262-284. Free-to-read

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Przepiorka, W., Rutten, C., Buskens, V., & Szekely, A. (2020). How dominance hierarchies emerge from conflict: A game theoretic model and experimental evidence. Social Science Research, 86, 102393.

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Diekmann, A., & Przepiorka, W. (2019). Trust and Reputation in Markets. In F. Giardini & R. Wittek (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation (pp. 383-400). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Gambetta, D., & Przepiorka, W. (2019). Sharing compromising information as a cooperative strategy. Sociological Science, 6, 352-379. Free-to-read

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Przepiorka, W. (2019). No evidence for hedonic shifts to bring about more moral hypocrisy: A comment on Lindenberg et al. (2018). Rationality and Society, 31(3), 354-360. Free-to-read

Horne, C., Tinkler, J., & Przepiorka, W. (2018). Behavioral Regularities and Norm Stickiness: The Cases of Transracial Adoption and Online Privacy. Social Research: An International Quarterly, 85(1), 93-113.
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Przepiorka, W. (2018). Book Review of Domenico Delli Gatti, Giorgio Fagiolo, Mauro Gallegati, Matteo Richiardi and Alberto Russo (Eds.): Agent-based models in economics: A toolkit. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 21(4), 3. Free-to-read

Przepiorka, W., & Diekmann, A. (2018). Heterogeneous groups overcome the diffusion of responsibility problem in social norm enforcement. PLOS ONE, 13(11), e0208129. Free-to-read

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Przepiorka, W., & Horne, C. (2018). How Can Utilities Overcome Their Trustworthiness Problem? SAGE Business and Management INK (Blog). Free-to-read

Corten, R., Przepiorka, W., & Norbutas, L. (2017). Vertrouwen in een vacuüm: wat we kunnen leren van drugshandel op het Dark Web. StukRoodVlees (Blog). Free-to-read

Jann, B., & Przepiorka, W. (Eds.). (2017). Social dilemmas, institutions and the evolution of cooperation. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg.

Przepiorka, W., & Berger, J. (2017). Signaling theory evolving: Signals and signs of trustworthiness in social exchange. In B. Jann & W. Przepiorka (Eds.), Social dilemmas, institutions and the evolution of cooperation (pp. 373-392). Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg.
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Przepiorka, W., Norbutas, L., & Corten, R. (2017). Order without law: Reputation promotes cooperation in a cryptomarket for illegal drugs. European Sociological Review, 33(6), 752-764.
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European Sociological Review Prize for the Best Article of the Year, awarded by the European Consortium for Sociological Research in 2018.

van Miltenburg, N., Przepiorka, W., & Buskens, V. (2017). Consensual punishment does not promote cooperation in the six-person prisoner's dilemma game with noisy public monitoring. PLOS ONE, 12(11), e0188503. Free-to-read

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Diekmann, A., & Przepiorka, W. (2016). "Take One for the Team!" Individual heterogeneity and the emergence of latent norms in a volunteer's dilemma. Social Forces, 93(3), 1309-1333.
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Fehrler, S., & Przepiorka, W. (2016). Choosing a partner for social exchange: Charitable giving as a signal of trustworthiness. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 129, 157-171.
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Przepiorka, W., & Berger, J. (2016). The sanctioning dilemma: A quasi-experiment on social norm enforcement in the train. European Sociological Review, 32(3), 439-451.
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Anatol-Rapoport-Prize, awarded by the Modelling and Simulation section of the German Sociological Association in 2016.

Przepiorka, W., & Liebe, U. (2016). Generosity is a sign of trustworthiness – the punishment of selfishness is not. Evolution and Human Behavior, 37(4), 255-262.
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Diekmann, A., & Przepiorka, W. (2015). Punitive preferences, monetary incentives and tacit coordination in the punishment of defectors promote cooperation in humans. Scientific Reports, 5, 10321. Free-to-read

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Diekmann, A., Przepiorka, W., & Rauhut, H. (2015). Lifting the veil of ignorance: An experiment on the contagiousness of norm violations. Rationality and Society, 27(3), 309-333.
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Duch, R., Przepiorka, W., & Stevenson, R. (2015). Responsibility Attribution for Collective Decision Makers. American Journal of Political Science, 59(2), 372-389.
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Diekmann, A., Jann, B., Przepiorka, W., & Wehrli, S. (2014). Reputation formation and the evolution of cooperation in anonymous online markets. American Sociological Review, 79(1), 65-85.

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James Coleman Award for Outstanding Article, awarded by the Rationality and Society section of the American Sociological Association in 2015.

Gambetta, D., & Przepiorka, W. (2014). Natural and strategic generosity as signals of trustworthiness. PLOS ONE , 9(5), e97533.

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Przepiorka, W. (2014). Reputation in offline and online markets: Solutions to trust problems in social and economic exchange. Economic Sociology, the European Electronic Newsletter, 16(1), 4-10. Free-to-read

Przepiorka, W. (2014). 'Big data' from online interactions offer a rich object of study for academics and policy-makers interested in human nature and economic behaviour. EUROPP – European Politics and Policy (Blog). Free-to-read

Fehrler, S., & Przepiorka, W. (2013). Charitable giving as a signal of trustworthiness: Disentangling the signaling benefits of altruistic acts. Evolution and Human Behavior, 34(2), 139-145.
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Przepiorka, W. (2013). Buyers pay for and sellers invest in a good reputation: More evidence from eBay. Journal of Socio-Economics, 42(C), 31-42.
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Przepiorka, W., & Diekmann, A. (2013). Temporal Embeddedness and Signals of Trustworthiness: Experimental Tests of a Game Theoretic Model in the United Kingdom, Russia, and Switzerland. European Sociological Review, 29(5), 1010-1023.
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Przepiorka, W., & Diekmann, A. (2013). Individual heterogeneity and costly punishment: a volunteer's dilemma. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 280(1759), 20130247. Free-to-read

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Baeriswyl, M., Przepiorka, W., & Staake, T. (2011). Identifying individuals' preferences using games: A field experiment in promoting sustainable energy consumption. In International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) Proceedings, (pp. 14-25). Atlanta (GA): Association for Information Systems.
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Diekmann, A., & Przepiorka, W. (2011). Von Schweizer Alpengemeinden zur globalen Allmende. Was die Umweltpolitik aus Fallstudien und Experimenten lernen kann. In K. Bisang, C. Hirschi, & K. Ingold (Eds.), Umwelt und Gesellschaft im Einklang? Festschrift für Willi Zimmermann, (pp. 59-69). Zürich: Dike.
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Diekmann, A., Przepiorka, W., & Rauhut, H. (2011). Die Präventivwirkung des Nichtwissens im Experiment. Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 40(1), 74-84. Free-to-read

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Przepiorka, W. (2011). Ethnic Discrimination and Signals of Trustworthiness in Anonymous Online Markets: Evidence from Two Field Experiments. Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 40(2), 132-141. Free-to-read

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Diekmann, A., & Przepiorka, W. (2010). Soziale Normen als Signale. Der Beitrag der Signaling-Theorie. In G. Albert & S. Sigmund (Eds.), Soziologische Theorie kontrovers. Sonderheft der Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, (pp. 220-237). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag. Free-to-read

Diekmann, A., & Przepiorka, W. (2010). Der Soziologische Gehalt der Signaling-Theorie. In G. Albert & S. Sigmund (Eds.), Soziologische Theorie kontrovers. Sonderheft der Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, (pp. 247-252). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag. Free-to-read

Przepiorka, W. (2010). Book Review of Diego Gambetta: Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate. Rationality, Markets and Morals (RMM), 1, 9-11. Free-to-read

Przepiorka, W. (2009). Reputation and Signals of Trustworthiness in Social Interactions. Zurich: ETH Zurich, Dissertation Nr. 18649. Free-to-read

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Diekmann, A., & Przepiorka, W. (2005). The Evolution of Trust and Reputation: Results from Simulation Experiments. In K. G. Troitzsch (Ed.), Representing Social Reality: Pre-Proceedings of the Third Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, (pp. 307-313). Koblenz: Fölbach. Free-to-read

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Przepiorka, W. (2004). Eine verbrauchsabhängige Motorfahrzeugsteuer in der Schweiz: Aspekte der Umlegung der kantonalen Motofahrzeugsteuer auf die Treibstoffpreise. Universität Bern, Bern, Master Thesis.
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