All Stories

  1. The Good, the Bad, and the Unflinchingly Selfish

    Article • ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, October 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    David Rand

  2. Reflections on the Time-Pressure Cooperation Registered Replication Report

    Article • Perspectives on Psychological Science, March 2017, SAGE Publications

    David Rand

  3. Cooperation, Fast and Slow

    Article • Psychological Science, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    David Rand

  4. Habits of Virtue: Creating Norms of Cooperation and Defection in the Laboratory

    Article • Management Science, March 2016, INFORMS

    David Rand

  5. What does “clean” really mean? The implicit framing of decontextualized experiments

    Article • Economics Letters, March 2014, Elsevier

    David Rand

  6. Who cooperates in repeated games: The role of altruism, inequity aversion, and demographics

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, February 2014, Elsevier

    David Rand

  7. Human cooperation

    Article • Trends in Cognitive Sciences, August 2013, Elsevier

    David Rand

  8. Parametric Excitation and Evolutionary Dynamics

    Article • Journal of Applied Mechanics, July 2013, ASME International

    David Rand

  9. Rand et al. reply

    Article • Nature, June 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Rand

  10. Religious motivations for cooperation: an experimental investigation using explicit primes

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, April 2013, Taylor & Francis

    David Rand

  11. Spontaneous giving and calculated greed

    Article • Nature, September 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Rand

  12. Delayed and Inconsistent Information and the Evolution of Trust

    Article • Dynamic Games and Applications, September 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Rand

  13. Evolution of in-group favoritism

    Article • Scientific Reports, June 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Rand

  14. Evolutionary dynamics in finite populations can explain the full range of cooperative behaviors observed in the centipede game

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, May 2012, Elsevier

    David Rand

  15. Economic Games on the Internet: The Effect of $1 Stakes

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2012, PLOS

    David Rand

  16. Information, Irrationality and the Evolution of Trust

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2012, Elsevier

    David Rand

  17. Evolutionary dynamics of a system with periodic coefficients

    Article • Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, October 2011, Elsevier

    David Rand

  18. The evolution of antisocial punishment in optional public goods games

    Article • Nature Communications, August 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Rand

  19. The Evolution of Coercive Institutional Punishment

    Article • Dynamic Games and Applications, June 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Rand

  20. The online laboratory: conducting experiments in a real labor market

    Article • Experimental Economics, February 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Rand

  21. Advancing systems medicine and therapeutics through biosimulation

    Article • Interface Focus, December 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    David Rand

  22. Balance equations can buffer noisy and sustained environmental perturbations of circadian clocks

    Article • Interface Focus, December 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    David Rand

  23. Anti-social punishment can prevent the co-evolution of punishment and cooperation

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, August 2010, Elsevier

    David Rand

  24. Currency value moderates equity preference among young children

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, May 2010, Elsevier

    David Rand

  25. Systematic Differences in Impact across Publication Tracks at PNAS

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2009, PLOS

    David Rand

  26. Decision-Making in Research Tasks with Sequential Testing

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2009, PLOS

    David Rand

  27. Direct reciprocity with costly punishment: Generous tit-for-tat prevails

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, January 2009, Elsevier

    David Rand

  28. Winners don’t punish

    Article • Nature, March 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Rand

  29. P5-25

    Article • Heart Rhythm, May 2006, Elsevier

    David Rand

  30. The Cooperative Phenotype

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    David Rand

  31. Who Cooperates in Repeated Games?

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    David Rand

  32. Should Law Keep Pace with Society?

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    David Rand

  33. Positive Emotion and (Dis)Inhibition Interact to Predict Cooperative Behavior

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    David Rand

  34. What Does 'Clean' Really Mean? The Implicit Framing of Decontextualized Experiments

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    David Rand

  35. Do People Care About Social Context? Framing Effects in Dictator Games

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    David Rand, Professor magnus johannesson

  36. Economic Games on the Internet: The Effect of $1 Stakes

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    David Rand

  37. Strategic Self-Interest Motivates Seemingly 'Fair' Offers in the Ultimatum Game

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    David Rand

  38. It's the Thought that Counts: The Role of Intentions in Reciprocal Altruism

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    David Rand

  39. Reflection Does Not Undermine Self-Interested Cooperation: Support for the Social Heuristics Hypothesis

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    David Rand

  40. Habits of Virtue: Creating Norms of Cooperation and Defection in the Laboratory

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    David Rand

  41. Punishment Does Not Promote Cooperation Under Exploration Dynamics When Anti-Social Punishment is Possible

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    David Rand

  42. Arginine Vasopressin 1a Receptor (AVPR1a) RS3 Repeat Polymorphism Associated with Entrepreneurship

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    David Rand

  43. Genetic Correlates of Economic and Social Risk Taking

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    David Rand

  44. Risking Your Life Without a Second Thought: Intuitive Decision-Making and Extreme Altruism

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    David Rand

  45. Cooperation Increases with the Benefit-to-Cost Ratio in One-Shot Prisoner's Dilemma Experiments

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    David Rand

  46. Civic Capital in Two Cultures: The Nature of Cooperation in Romania and USA

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    David Rand

  47. Intuitive Cooperation and the Social Heuristics Hypothesis: Evidence from 15 Time Constraint Studies

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    David Rand

  48. Religious Motivations for Cooperation: An Experimental Investigation Using Explicit Primes

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    David Rand