Publications in peer-reviewed journals

  1. 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.
  2. 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.  
  3. 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 ]
  4. 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.
  5. 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 ]
  6. 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.
  7. 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 ]
  8. 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 ]
  9. Di Paolo, R., & Pizziol, V. (2023). Gamification and Sustainable Water Use: The Case of the BLUTUBE Educational Program. Simulation & Gaming, 10468781231181652.
  10. 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.
  11. Catola, M., D’Alessandro, S., Guarnieri, P., Pizziol, V. (2021). Personal norms in the online public good game. Economics Letters, 207, 110024.
pnas2023
JPET
econ letters 2021
joep 2023
scirep
JCE
SSM 2022
JBEE
JournalRoyalSocietyInterface2
npjclimateaction
s&g 2023

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., Rouchouze, O., Wieczorek, B., Fadhuile, A., et al.)

Conference papers, editorial articles, book chapters, reports

  1. 1 chapter in Vocabulary for Sustainable Consumption and Lifestyles: A Language for Our Common Future (2025). Forthcoming.
  2. 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. 3 chapters in New Frontiers in Gaming (2022).
  4. 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.