Publications in peer-reviewed journals
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. [ DATA & MATERIALS ]
- 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.
- 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. [ DATA & MATERIALS ]
- 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.
- 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. [ DATA & MATERIALS ]
- 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. [ DATA & MATERIALS ]
- Di Paolo, R., & Pizziol, V. (2023). Gamification and Sustainable Water Use: The Case of the BLUTUBE Educational Program. Simulation & Gaming, 10468781231181652.
- 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.
- Catola, M., D’Alessandro, S., Guarnieri, P., Pizziol, V. (2021). Personal norms in the online public good game. Economics Letters, 207, 110024.
Work in progress
- Language and Economic Decisions (with Capraro, V., Di Paolo, R.)
- Authority (with Fehr, E., Larreguy, H., Schunk, D.)
- Framing Climate Solutions as Individual, Structural, or Both: Climate Action and Policy Support in the U.S. and the U.K. (with Constantino, S., Kim, J., Casari, M., Tavoni, A.)
- Cooperation and Reciprocity in Environmental Dilemmas (with Bilancini, E., Boncinelli, L., Celadin, T.)
- A Multilevel Public Goods Game with Risky Marginal Returns (with Cerniglia, F., Longaretti, R., Nardi, C.)
- The Role of Source of Power in the Public Bad Game (with Bilancini, E., Scarparo, F.)
- Sharing Energy Resources (with Llerena, D., Roussillon, B., Wieczorek, B., et al.)
Conference papers, editorial articles, book chapters, reports
- 1 chapter in Vocabulary for Sustainable Consumption and Lifestyles: A Language for Our Common Future (2025). Forthcoming.
- Di Paolo, R., Bisanti, M., Chiarello, F., Di Guida, S., Pizziol, V. (2024). Games-based learning for social change. Frontiers in Education, 9, 1403695.
- 3 chapters in New Frontiers in Gaming (2022).
- 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.