Publications in peer-reviewed journals

  • Goldwert, D., Vlasceanu, M., Pizziol, V., et al. (2026). A Megastudy of Behavioral Interventions to Catalyze Public, Political, and Financial Climate Advocacy. PNAS Nexus. 5(1), pgaf400. | Link |
  • Capraro, V., Di Paolo, R., Pizziol, V. (2025). A publicly available benchmark for assessing Large Language Models’ ability to predict how humans balance self-interest and the interest of others. Scientific Reports. 15(1), 21428. | Link |
  • Catola, M., D’Alessandro, S., Guarnieri, P., Pizziol, V. (2025). Norms and Efficiency in a Multi-Group Society: An Online Experiment. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 27(1), e70010. | Link |
  • Catola, M., Guarnieri, P., Pizziol, V., Rapallini, C. (2024). Measuring the attitude towards a European public budget: A cross-country experiment. Journal of Comparative Economics, 52(4), 963-979. | Link |
  • Pizziol, V., & Tavoni, A. (2024). From niches to norms: the promise of social tipping interventions to scale climate action. npj Climate Action, 3(1), 1-8. | Link |
  • Capraro, V., Di Paolo, R., Perc, M., Pizziol, V. (2024). Language-based game theory in the age of artificial intelligence. Journal of the Royal Society Interface,  21, 20230720. | Link |
  • Bilancini, E., Boncinelli, L., Nardi, C., Pizziol, V. (2024). Cooperation is unaffected by the threat of severe adverse events in public goods games. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 108, 102145. | Link |
  • Pizziol, V., Demaj, X., Di Paolo, R., Capraro, V. (2023). Political ideology and generosity around the globe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120 (15), e2219676120. | Link |
  • Catola, M., D’Alessandro, S., Guarnieri, P., Pizziol, V. (2023). Multilevel Public Goods Game: Levelling up, Substitution and Crowding-in Effects. Journal of Economic Psychology, 97, 102626. | Link |
  • Di Paolo, R., & Pizziol, V. (2023). Gamification and Sustainable Water Use: The Case of the BLUTUBE Educational Program. Simulation & Gaming, 10468781231181652. | Link |
  • Bilancini, E., Boncinelli, L., Di Paolo, R., Menicagli, D., Pizziol, V., Ricciardi, E., Serti, F. (2022). Prosocial behavior in emergencies: Evidence from blood donors recruitment and retention during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Science & Medicine, 314, 115438. | Link |
  • Catola, M., D’Alessandro, S., Guarnieri, P., Pizziol, V. (2021). Personal norms in the online public good game. Economics Letters, 207, 110024. | Link |
pnas2023
Senzanome
joep 2023
JPET
JBEE
scirep
JCE
econ letters 2021
JournalRoyalSocietyInterface2
SSM 2022
npjclimateaction
s&g 2023

Working papers

  • Language and Economic Decisions (with V. Capraro, R. Di Paolo). | Link | [ Under review at The Economic Journal ] 
  • Framing Is Shaping in Cooperation Dilemmas: Provision, Maintenance, and Harm Restraint Are Not the Same (with E. Bilancini, L. Boncinelli, T. Celadin). | Available upon request | [ Under review at Experimental Economics ]
  • Risk, Social Closeness, and Cooperation Across Levels (with F. Cerniglia, R. Longaretti, C. Nardi). | Available upon request | [ Under review at Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization ]
  • Voluntary contributions to risky multilevel public goods with heterogeneous returns (with F. Cerniglia, R. Longaretti, C. Nardi).  | Available upon request | [ Under review at Social Choice and Welfare ]
  • Dynamic Information Provision on Household Water Consumption: A Field Experiment in France (with B. Wieczorek). | Available upon request | [ Under review at Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics ]
  • Large-scale cross-societal examination of real- and minimal-group biases (with X. Yang, J. Schulz, K. Schmidt, Y. Dunham, et al.) | Link | [ Registered Report principally accepted at Nature Human Behavior ]

Work in progress

  • Framing Climate Change as Both an Individual and a Structural Problem increases Personal Efficacy and Intentions to Act (with J. Kim, A. Tavoni, M. Casari, S. Constantino). [ Manuscript in preparation ]
  • Norms in a risky multilevel public goods experiment (with G. Del Mastio, C. Nardi). [ Manuscript in preparation ]
  • Leadership (with E. Fehr, H. Larreguy, D. Schunk). [ Manuscript in preparation ]
  • Social Tipping Points: An Experiment (with A. Tavoni, B. Wieczorek). [ Manuscript in preparation ]
  • The Role of Source of Power in the Public Bad Game (with E. Bilancini, F. Scarparo). [ Manuscript in preparation ]
  • The Backfire Effect & Algorithmic Polarization (with N. Amieur, B. Roussillon, O. Goga). [ Data collection ]
  • A Laboratory Experiment on Sharing Energy Communities (with D. Llerena, B. Roussillon, B. Wieczorek). [ Data collection ]
  • The effect of language in weak vs. strong normative environments (with C. Bicchieri, V. Capraro). [ Experimental design ]
  • The effect of Eco-labels on Mobility Choices: An Online Randomized Experiment. (with F. Cellina, L. Ventimiglia, A. Tavoni). [ Experimental design ]

Other publications (Book chapters, Conference papers, Editorial articles)

  • Vocabulary for Sustainable Consumption and Lifestyles: A Language for Our Common Future (2025). | Link |
  • New Frontiers in Gaming (2022). | Link |
  • Bisanti, M., Di Paolo, R., Pizziol, V., Accardi, S., Maggi, F., Paladino, G., Ricciardi, E., Bilancini, E. (2022). Digital Escape Games in Educational Programs for Financial Literacy. European Conference on Games Based Learning. Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 666-674. | Link |
  • Di Paolo, R., Bisanti, M., Chiarello, F., Di Guida, S., & Pizziol, V. (2024). Games-based learning for social change. In Frontiers in Education. Vol. 9, p. 1403695. | Link |