Selected Working Papers / Work in Progress

  1. Altintas, Onur, Abraham Seidmann, Bin Gu, and Nina Mazar (2024): The Effect of Interpretable AI on Repetitive Managerial Decision-Making under Uncertainty.
  2. Duckworth, Angela, Ahra Ko, Katherine L. Milkman, et al.  (2024): Nudging Teachers: A Megastudy to Increase Math Achievement Among 3 Million Elementary School Students.
  3. Hernandez, Marco, Julian Jamison, Ewa Korczyc, Nina Mazar and Roberto Sormani (2017): Applying Behavioral Insights to Improve Tax Collection : Experimental Evidence from Poland. World Bank working paper. [megastudy across the entire country]
  4. Ladhania, Rahul, Lyle Ungar, and Nina Mazar (2024): Health Equity. The role of AI-driven Personalization for the Impact of Flu Shot Messaging Interventions.
  5. Milkman, Katherine L., Sean F. Ellis, Dena M. Gromet et al.  (2024): Can Reminder Emails Compel Americans to Save? A 2 Million Person Megastudy.
  6. Mazar, Nina, Hilke Plassmann, Nicole Robitaille, and Axel Lindner (2016): Pain of Paying? — A Metaphor Gone Literal: Evidence from Neural and Behavioral Science. SSRN working paper.
  7. Nichols, Aaron D., Nina Mazar, Tejovan J. R. Parker, Gordon Pennycook, David Rand, and Marshall Van Alstyne (2024): Certifiably True: The Impact of Self-Certification on Misinformation.
  8. Reinson, Heidi, Andero Uusberg, Thomas Post, et al. (2024): Encouraging pension savings: E-mail reminder RCT in Estonia.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

  1. Lee, Chang-Yuan, Nina Mazar, and Carey Morewedge (Forthcoming): Why Context Influences Preferences Elicited with Willingness to Pay Less Than Preferences Elicited with Choice, Management Science
  2. Zickfeld, Janis, Karolina Scigala, Christian T. Elbaek, John Michael, Mathilde T. Tønnesen, Gabriel Levy, Shahar Ayal, et al. (2024): Effectiveness of Ex-Ante Honesty Oaths in Reducing Dishonesty Depends on Content, Nature Human Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-02009-0. (megastudy; PsyArXiv paywall-free preprint). [OSF]
  3. House, Julian, Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis, and Nina Mazar (2024): Nudging the Nudger: Performance feedback and organ donor registrations, Journal of Health Economics, 97, 102914. (authors in alphabetical order; NBER working paper No. 30547). [AEA RCT Registry
  4. Mazar, Nina, Christian T. Elbaek, and Panagiotis Mitkidis (2024): Reply to Vogt et al.: What Does it Mean that a Phenomenon Generalizes?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(20), 1-3, e2316670121. [OSF]
  5. Pe’er, Eyal, Nina Mazar, Yuval Feldman, and Dan Ariely (2024): How pledges reduce dishonesty: The role of involvement and identification, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 113, 104614. This article is accompanied by a Corrigendum published in Volume 114, 104641. [OSF]
  6. Boz, Hasan Alp, Mohsen Bahrami, Selim Balcisoy, Burcin Bozkaya, Nina Mazar, Aaron Nichols, and Alex Pentland (2024): Investigating neighborhood adaptability using mobility networks: a case study of the COVID-19 pandemic, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11, 397. [GITHUB]
  7. Mazar, Nina, Christian T. Elbaek, and Panagiotis Mitkidis (2023): Reply to Bas et al.: The difference between a genuine tendency and context-specific response, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences120(5), e2318010120 [OSF]
  8. Mazar, Nina, Christian T. Elbaek, and Panagiotis Mitkidis (2023): Experiment aversion does not appear to generalize, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(16), e2217551120-e2217551120. [OSF]
  9. Madan, Shilpa et al. (2023): Reaching for Rigor and Relevance: Better Marketing Research for a Better World, Marketing Letters, 34, 1–12. [non-empirical]
  10. Hertwig, Ralph and Nina Mazar (2022): Toward a Taxonomy and Review of Honesty Interventions. Current Opinion in Psychology, 47. [non-empirical]
  11. Mazar, Nina (2022). Give physicians’ views to improve COVID vaccine uptake. Nature, 606, 471-472. [article commentary, non-empirical]
  12. Milkman, K. et al. (2022): A 680,000-Person Megastudy of Nudges to Encourage Vaccination in Pharmacies, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(6), e2115126119. [OSF]
  13. Robitaille, Nicole, Julian House, and Nina Mazar (2021): Effectiveness of Planning Prompts on Organizations’ Likelihood to File their Overdue Taxes: A Multi-wave Field Experiment, Management Science, 67(7), 4327-4340. [OSF]
  14. Robitaille, Nicole, Nina Mazar, Claire I. Tsai, Avery M. Haviv, and Elizabeth Hardy (2021): Increasing Organ Donor Registrations with Behavioral Interventions: A Field Experiment, Journal of Marketing – Special Issue “Better Marketing for a Better World,” 85(3), 168-183. [OSF]
  15. Gauri, Varun, Julian Jamison, Nina Mazar, and Owen Ozier (2021): Motivating bureaucrats through social recognition: External validity—A tale of two states, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes – Special Issue “Nudges and Choice Architecture in Organizations,” 163(March), 117-131. (authors in alphabetical order).  [AEA RCT Registry]
    • Covered in The Economist (2017) article “Nudge comes to shove: Policymakers around the world are embracing behavioural science”
  16. Jamison, Julian C., Nina Mazar, Iman Sen (2021): Applying behavioral insights to tax compliance: Experimental evidence from Latvia, Journal of Tax Administration, 6 (2). [authors in alphabetical order]
  17. Kristal, Ariella S., Ashley V. Whillans, Max H. Bazerman, Francesca Gino, Lisa L. Shu, Nina Mazar, and Dan Ariely (2020): Signing at the beginning versus at the end does not decrease dishonesty, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Mar 31, 117(13), 7103-7107. This article is accompanied by a Corrigendum published on OSF. [OSF]  
  18. Klotz, Leidy et al. (2019). Twenty Questions About Design Behavior for Sustainability, Report of the International Expert Panel on Behavioral Science for Design, New York. Nature Sustainability. [non-empirical]
  19. Leipnitz, Sigrun, Martha de Vries, Michel Clement, and Nina Mazar (2018): Providing health checks as incentives to retain blood donors – evidence from two field experiments, International Journal of Research in Marketing, 35 (4), 628-640.
  20. Mazar, Nina, Daniel Mochon, and Dan Ariely (2018): If you are going to pay within the next 24 hours, press 1: Automatic planning prompt reduces credit card delinquency, Journal of Consumer Psychology, 28(3), 466-476.
    • 10% Most Downloaded Papers published in JCP in 2018-2019 (4/30/2020).
  21. Amir, On, Nina Mazar, Dan Ariely (2018): Replicating the Effect of the Accessibility of Moral Standards on Dishonesty: Authors’ Response to the Replication Attempt. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(3), 318-320. [article commentary, non-empirical]
  22. Bryan, Christopher, Nina Mazar, Julian Jamison et al. (2017): Overcoming Behavioral Obstacles to Escaping Poverty, Behavioral Science and Policy, 5, 81-93. [non-empirical]
  23. Mazar, Nina, Kristina Shampanier, and Dan Ariely (2017): When Retailing and Las Vegas Meet: Probabilistic Free Price Promotions, Management Science, 63(1), 250-266.
  24. Müller, Sarah, Nina Mazar, and Anne Fries (2016): The Cause Matters! How Cause Marketing Campaigns Can Increase the Demand for Conventional over Green Products, Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 1(4), 540-554.
  25. Castelo, Noah, Elizabeth Hardy, Julian House, Nina Mazar, Claire Tsai, Min Zhao (2015): Moving Citizens Online: Salience and Framing as Motivators for Behavioral Change, Behavioral Science and Policy, 1(2), 57-68. [authors in alphabetical order, OSF]
  26. Schulz, Fabian, Christian Schlereth, Nina Mazar, and Bernd Skiera (2015): Advance Payment Systems: Paying Too Much Today and Being Satisfied Tomorrow, International Journal of Research in Marketing, 32(3), 238-250.
    • Special Issue “Marketing and Innovation” Best Paper award
    • Finalist for 2015 IJRM Best Article award
    • Lead article
  27. Mazar, Nina and Scott A. Hawkins (2015): Choice Architecture in Conflicts of Interest: Defaults as Physical and Psychological Barriers to (Dis)honesty, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 59(July), 113-117.
  28. Sachdeva, Sonya, Jennifer Jordan, and Nina Mazar (2015): Green Consumerism: Moral Motivations to a Sustainable Future, Current Opinion in Psychology, 6(December), 60-65. [non-empirical]
  29. Sharma, Eesha, Nina Mazar, Adam L. Alter, and Dan Ariely (2014): Financial Deprivation Selectively Shifts Moral Standards and Compromises Moral Decisions, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 123(2), 90-100.
  30. Mazar, Nina, Botond Koszegi, and Dan Ariely (2014): True Context-Dependent Preferences? The Causes of Market-Dependent Valuations, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 27(3), 200-208. Previous working paper title: „Price-Sensitive Preferences.”
  31. Loewen, Peter J., Christopher T. Dawes, Nina Mazar, Magnus Johannesson, Philipp Keollinger, and Patrik K.E. Magnusson (2013): The Heritability of Moral Standards for Everyday Dishonesty, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 93(September), 363-366.
  32. Mather, Mara, Nina Mazar, Marissa A. Gorlick, Nichole R. Lighthall, Jessica Burgeno, Andrej Schoeke, and Dan Ariely (2012): Risk Preferences and Aging: The “Certainty Effect” in Older Adults’ Decision Making, Psychology and Aging, 27 (4), 801-816. [OSF]
    • Lead article
  33. Mazar, Nina and Pankaj Aggarwal (2011): Greasing the Palm: Can Collectivism Promote Bribery? Psychological Science, 22 (7), 843-848.
    • Lead article
  34. Mazar, Nina and Chen-Bo Zhong (2010): Do Green Products Make Us Better People? Psychological Science, 21 (4), 494-498. [authors in alphabetical order]. This article is accompanied by a Corrigendum published on OSF.  [OSF]
    • Most downloaded article in 2010 in Psychological Science (of all articles published in Psychological Science in 2009 and 2010)
    • Ranked in the SSRN’s Top Ten download list for All SSRN Journals
    • Research Highlight in Nature Reports Climate Change
  35. Ariely, Dan, Uri Gneezy, George Loewenstein, and Nina Mazar (2009): Large Stakes and Big Mistakes, Review of Economic Studies, 76 (2), 451-469. [authors in alphabetical order]
  36. Levy, Boaz, Dan Ariely, Nina Mazar, Won Chi, Scott Lukas, and Igor Elman (2008): Gender Differences in the Motivational Processing of Facial Beauty, Learning and Motivation, 39 (2), 136-145.
    • Named “3rd in “Top 25 Hottest Articles” in that journal in 2011.
  37. Mazar, Nina, On Amir, and Dan Ariely (2008): The Dishonesty of Honest People: A Theory of Self-Concept Maintenance, Journal of Marketing Research, 45 (6), 633-644. This article is accompanied by a Corrigendum published on OSF. [OSF]
    • Recipient of the 2012 William F. O’Dell Award
    • Lead article with invited commentaries by Scott Rick and George Loewenstein as well as John R. Monterosso and Daniel D. Langleben
  38. Mazar, Nina, On Amir, and Dan Ariely (2008): More Ways to Cheat – Expanding the Scope of Dishonesty, Journal of Marketing Research, 45 (6), 651-653. [reply to commentaries about above article, non-empirical]
  39. Shampanier, Kristina, Nina Mazar, and Dan Ariely (2007): Zero as a Special Price: The True Value of Free Products, Marketing Science, 26 (6), 742-757.
    • Lead article
  40. Mazar, Nina and Dan Ariely (2006): Dishonesty in Everyday Life and its Policy Implications, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, 25 (1), 117-126. [non-empirical]
    • Re-published as Harvard Business Review Case
  41. Elman, Igor, Dan Ariely, Nina Mazar, Itzhak Aharon, Natasha B. Lasko, Michael L. Macklin, Scott P. Orr, Scott E. Lukas, Roger K. Pitman (2005): Probing Reward Function in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder with Beautiful Facial Images, Psychiatry Research, 135 (3), 179-183.
  42. Amir, On, Dan Ariely, Alan Cooke, David Dunning, Nicholas Epley, Botond Koszegi, Donald Lichtenstein, Nina Mazar, Sendhil Mullainathan, Drazen Prelec, Eldar Shafir, and Jose Silva (2005): Behavioral Economics, Psychology, and Public Policy, Marketing Letters, 16 (3-4), 443-454. [authors in alphabetical order; non-empirical]