Wojtek Przepiorka

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Wojtek Przepiorka

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Below are brief descriptions of research projects that received financial support from various funding institutions. The list is sorted by project starting date from newest to oldest. The descriptions indicate the project aims, methods used, people involved, duration, funding institutions, funded amount, and publications.

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Full title: Work-related gender norms in the Netherlands. Measuring the normative underpinnings of female labor force participation, in particular parttime work.

Aim: To investigate the potential impact of work-related gender norms on female labor force participation in the Netherlands, in particular parttime work. Methods: Representative surveys, survey experiments, analysis of Dutch register data.

Team: A. Brüning, W. Przepiorka (Co-PI), T. Spiegel, T. van der Lippe

Duration: 2023 - 2027

Funder: Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Amount: ~ EUR 250,000. [Note: this project is financed through the Stevin prize awarded to T. van der Lippe]

Publications

TBA

Full title: How do vulnerability to the COVID-19 virus and compliance with pandemic-related norms affect changes in social trust?

Aim: To investigate the impact of people’s normative beliefs and perceptions of other people’s compliance with pandemic-related norms on social trust. Methods: Representative surveys of the Dutch adult population.

Team: V. Buskens, R. Corten, S. Lo Iacono, W. Przepiorka (Co-I), A. van de Rijt

Duration: 2020 - 2021

Funder: Utrecht University, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, COVID-19 fund. Amount: EUR 25,138.

Publications

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.

Full title: The dark side of cooperation.

Aim: To investigate mechanisms that promote cooperation in extra-legal contexts or to the detriment of others. Methods: Laboratory experiments, agent-based simulations, analyses of digital behavioral data from illegal online markets.

Team: V. Buskens, A. Macanovic, W. Przepiorka (Co-PI)

Duration: 2019 - 2023 (extended due to the pandemic)

Funder: Utrecht University, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, PhD fund. Amount: EUR 213,000.

Publications

Macanovic, A. (2022). Text mining for social science – The state and the future of computational text analysis in sociology. Social Science Research, 108, 102784.

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.

TBC

Full title: Sustainability of cooperation in changing groups.

Aim: To investigate under what conditions peer-sanctioning can promote cooperation in heterogeneous groups that face a multi-level public goods problem. Methods: Laboratory experiments.

Team: V. Buskens, B. Cherki, S. Israel, K. Otten, W. Przepiorka (Co-PI)

Duration: 2019 – 2022 (extended due to the pandemic)

Funder: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Utrecht University Center for Partnership in Science. Amount: EUR 15,000.

Publications

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.

TBC

Full title: The competitive advantage of sanctioning institutions revisited: A multi-lab replication of Gürerk et al. (2006).

Aim: To conduct an exact replication of a study on the competitive advantage of peer-sanctioning institutions by Gürerk, Irlenbusch and Rockenback published in Science in 2006. Methods: Laboratory experiments in eight locations around the world.

Team: V. Buskens, R. Corten, S. Lo Iacono, W. Przepiorka (PI), M. van Assen, A. van de Rijt

Duration: 2019 – 2023 (extended due to the pandemic)

Funder: Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. Amount: EUR 148,568.

Publications

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.

TBC

Full title: New public policy financing models, innovative or ineffective?

Aim: To estimate the effect the financing of labor market integration programs has on the success of these programs. Methods: Quasi-experiments combined with the analysis of register data, qualitative interviews with stakeholders of labor market integration programs.

Team: A. Fraser, D. Hevenstone, L. Hobi, W. Przepiorka (Co-I)

Duration: 2019 – 2021

Funder: Swiss Network for International Studies. Amount: CHF 254,195.

Publications

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.

[Other publications without my involvement]

Full title: Sustainability of public goods in a changing society.

Aim: To examine the conditions for the sustainability of public good provisions under changing group compositions, by specifying the role of social norm formation and social norm conflict. Methods: Laboratory experiments, field experiments, analyses of digital behavioral data.

Team: V. Buskens, N. Ellemers, K. Otten, W. Przepiorka (Co-I)

Duration: 2018 – 2022

Funder: Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. Amount: ~ EUR 250,000. [Note: this project is financed through the Gravitation program grant “Sustainable Cooperation – Roadmaps to Resilient Societies (SCOOP)”]

Publications

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.

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.

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.

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

TBC

Full title: The effectiveness of reputation systems in online market platforms: a meta-analysis, an experiment and a case study of the Chinese online market Taobao.

Aim: To investigate the impact of truthful information feedback on the effectiveness of reputation systems to promote trust in online markets. Methods: Meta-analyses, laboratory experiments, analyses of digital behavioral data from a Chinese online market platform.

Team: V. Buskens, R. Jiao, W. Przepiorka (Co-PI)

Duration: 2017 – 2023 (extended due to maternity and the pandemic)

Funder: China Scholarship Council. Amount: EUR 57,600.

Publications

Jiao, R., Przepiorka, W., & Buskens, V. (2021). Reputation effects in peer-to-peer online markets: A meta-analysis. Social Science Research, 95, 102522.

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.

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.

Full title: Sharing compromising information: How crime begets trust and cooperation among criminals.

Aim: To investigate how sharing information about punishable misdeeds can promote cooperation among deviants through mutually assured destruction. Methods: Laboratory experiments.

Team: D. Gambetta, W. Przepiorka (Co-PI)

Duration: 2014 – 2016

Funder: Research Council of the European University Institute. Amount: EUR 11,000.

Publications

Gambetta, D., & Przepiorka, W. (2019). Sharing compromising information as a cooperative strategy. Sociological Science, 6, 352-379.

Full title: Does altruistic punishment signal cooperative intent? Decomposing the signalling benefits of social norm enforcement.

Aim: To investigate whether peer-punishment is indicative of someone’s trustworthiness. Methods: Laboratory experiments.

Team: U. Liebe, W. Przepiorka (PI)

Duration: 2011 – 2013

Funder: John Fell OUP Research Fund. Amount: GBP 7350.

Publications

Full title: Signaling trustworthiness in laboratory and field experiments.

Aim: To investigate various mechanisms through which individuals can signal their trustworthiness. Methods: Laboratory experiments, online field experiments, analysis of digital behavioral data from online markets.

Team: A. Diekmann, W. Przepiorka (PI)

Duration: 2009 – 2012

Funder: Swiss National Science Foundation. Amount: CHF 132,121.

Publications

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.

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.

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.

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.