Thomas Schlösser
Biographic Data
| ID | 201880 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Schlösser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Schlösser |
| SIGNATURE | SCHLÖSSER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cologne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2685-6221 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Behavioral Trust in Competence Versus Morality: Experimental Evidence of Differences and Similarities
Life is full of decisions about whether to trust other people. At a cognitive level, people can be skeptical about another person's trustworthiness but are averse to signaling their suspicions at a behavioral level. This phenomenon of “principled trustfulness” has been documented for trust implicating the moral character of another person but not explored for cases involving their competence. We introduce a new game‐theoretical paradigm, the comp…
Local ties that bind: The role of perceived neighborhood cohesion and disorder for immigrants' national identification
Does betrayal aversion really guide trust decisions towards strangers
Trust is a double‐edged sword. When warranted, it leads to positive and rewarding interactions. When not, it leads to disappointment and anger. Therefore, it has been argued that people will display “betrayal aversion” in trust situations (i.e., avoid trusting to avoid betrayal). Yet, people also feel tense and uneasy when they signal distrust to another person and thus show signs of “principled trustfulness” (i.e., choosing to trust others altho…
The Effect of Democratically Determined (In)equality on Cooperative Behavior
We investigated the relationship between democratically determined economic inequality and cooperation in a two-stage experimental design. Although the relationship between inequality and cooperation has been studied extensively, experimental results in this area are contradictory and find inequality to have either a positive, negative, or no effect on cooperation. Our participants were randomly assigned to one of three societal classes (upper cl…
How justice sensitivity predicts equality preferences in simulated democratic systems
Justice Sensitivity and Cooperation Dynamics in Repeated Public Good Games
Justice Concerns Can Feed Nationalistic Concerns and Impede Solidarity in the Euro Crisis: How Victim Sensitivity Translates into Political Attitudes
Institutional trust and the provision of public goods: When do individual costs matter? The case of recycling
This research asks whether and how institutional trust-trust in the reliability, effectiveness, and legitimacy of public institutions-promotes the provision of public goods. To understand the underlying mechanisms, we apply three choice models to the example of recycling behavior: a standard rational choice model, the low-cost hypothesis, and a dual-process theory. The models carry competing hypotheses about the interplay of trust and incentives …
Overfulfilling the Norm: The Better-Than-Average Effect in Judgments of Attitudes
This research extends the better-than-average (BTA) effect commonly observed in judgments of abilities and personality traits to the domain of attitudes. Participants reported their attitudes toward 18 sociopolitical issues and estimated the attitudes of most other people toward these issues. Consistent with the research on pro-norm and anti-norm deviance, for issues high (vs. low) in the injunctive norm, participants perceived their attitudes to…
Theoretical Developments and Applications of the Social Resource Theory: A Review of Törnblom & Kazemi (2012)
Trust at zero acquaintance: More a matter of respect than expectation of reward
Trust is essential for a secure and flourishing social life, but many economic and philosophical approaches argue that rational people should never extend it, in particular to strangers they will never encounter again. Emerging data on the trust game, a laboratory economic exchange, suggests that people trust strangers excessively (i.e., far more than their tolerance for risk and cynical views of their peers should allow). What produces this puzz…
How unaware are the unskilled? Empirical tests of the “signal extraction” counterexplanation for the Dunning–Kruger effect in self-evaluation of performance
Why are religious people happy? The effect of the social norm of religiosity across countries
Trust as a social and emotional act: Noneconomic considerations in trust behavior
Cohabitation, Gender, and Happiness: A Cross-Cultural Study in Thirty Countries
Research commonly finds married people to be slightly happier than unmarried cohabitors-the phenomenon referred to as the cohabitation gap. In this article, we examine several relationships. First, we consider whether there are gender differences in the cohabitation gap; second, whether these gender differences are the same in different countries; and third, whether national differences in the gender role norms and gender equity in economic empow…
What a Feeling: The Role of Immediate and Anticipated Emotions in Risky Decisions
The risk‐as‐feelings hypothesis argues that many risky decisions are not only predicted by anticipated emotions, as most consequentialistic decision making theories would presume, but also by immediate emotions. Immediate emotions refer to the “hot” visceral feelings people feel as they contemplate a specific decision option at the cusp of making a decision, whereas anticipated emotions are those emotions that people forecast that they will feel …
Are the unemployed equally unhappy all around the world? The role of the social norms to work and welfare state provision in 28 OECD countries
Punitive versus compensatory reactions to injustice: Emotional antecedents to third-party interventions
Why are religious people happy? The effect of the social norm of religiosity across countries
Punitive versus compensatory reactions to injustice: Emotional antecedents to third-party interventions
Trust at zero acquaintance: More a matter of respect than expectation of reward
Trust is essential for a secure and flourishing social life, but many economic and philosophical approaches argue that rational people should never extend it, in particular to strangers they will never encounter again. Emerging data on the trust game, a laboratory economic exchange, suggests that people trust strangers excessively (i.e., far more than their tolerance for risk and cynical views of their peers should allow). What produces this puzz…
Are the unemployed equally unhappy all around the world? The role of the social norms to work and welfare state provision in 28 OECD countries
What a Feeling: The Role of Immediate and Anticipated Emotions in Risky Decisions
The risk‐as‐feelings hypothesis argues that many risky decisions are not only predicted by anticipated emotions, as most consequentialistic decision making theories would presume, but also by immediate emotions. Immediate emotions refer to the “hot” visceral feelings people feel as they contemplate a specific decision option at the cusp of making a decision, whereas anticipated emotions are those emotions that people forecast that they will feel …
Cohabitation, Gender, and Happiness: A Cross-Cultural Study in Thirty Countries
Research commonly finds married people to be slightly happier than unmarried cohabitors-the phenomenon referred to as the cohabitation gap. In this article, we examine several relationships. First, we consider whether there are gender differences in the cohabitation gap; second, whether these gender differences are the same in different countries; and third, whether national differences in the gender role norms and gender equity in economic empow…
How unaware are the unskilled? Empirical tests of the “signal extraction” counterexplanation for the Dunning–Kruger effect in self-evaluation of performance
Trust as a social and emotional act: Noneconomic considerations in trust behavior
Institutional trust and the provision of public goods: When do individual costs matter? The case of recycling
This research asks whether and how institutional trust-trust in the reliability, effectiveness, and legitimacy of public institutions-promotes the provision of public goods. To understand the underlying mechanisms, we apply three choice models to the example of recycling behavior: a standard rational choice model, the low-cost hypothesis, and a dual-process theory. The models carry competing hypotheses about the interplay of trust and incentives …
Local ties that bind: The role of perceived neighborhood cohesion and disorder for immigrants' national identification
Does betrayal aversion really guide trust decisions towards strangers
Trust is a double‐edged sword. When warranted, it leads to positive and rewarding interactions. When not, it leads to disappointment and anger. Therefore, it has been argued that people will display “betrayal aversion” in trust situations (i.e., avoid trusting to avoid betrayal). Yet, people also feel tense and uneasy when they signal distrust to another person and thus show signs of “principled trustfulness” (i.e., choosing to trust others altho…
How justice sensitivity predicts equality preferences in simulated democratic systems
Justice Sensitivity and Cooperation Dynamics in Repeated Public Good Games
Justice Concerns Can Feed Nationalistic Concerns and Impede Solidarity in the Euro Crisis: How Victim Sensitivity Translates into Political Attitudes
Punitive versus compensatory reactions to injustice: Emotional antecedents to third-party interventions
What a Feeling: The Role of Immediate and Anticipated Emotions in Risky Decisions
The risk‐as‐feelings hypothesis argues that many risky decisions are not only predicted by anticipated emotions, as most consequentialistic decision making theories would presume, but also by immediate emotions. Immediate emotions refer to the “hot” visceral feelings people feel as they contemplate a specific decision option at the cusp of making a decision, whereas anticipated emotions are those emotions that people forecast that they will feel …
Are the unemployed equally unhappy all around the world? The role of the social norms to work and welfare state provision in 28 OECD countries
Trust as a social and emotional act: Noneconomic considerations in trust behavior
Cohabitation, Gender, and Happiness: A Cross-Cultural Study in Thirty Countries
Research commonly finds married people to be slightly happier than unmarried cohabitors-the phenomenon referred to as the cohabitation gap. In this article, we examine several relationships. First, we consider whether there are gender differences in the cohabitation gap; second, whether these gender differences are the same in different countries; and third, whether national differences in the gender role norms and gender equity in economic empow…
How unaware are the unskilled? Empirical tests of the “signal extraction” counterexplanation for the Dunning–Kruger effect in self-evaluation of performance
Why are religious people happy? The effect of the social norm of religiosity across countries
Theoretical Developments and Applications of the Social Resource Theory: A Review of Törnblom & Kazemi (2012)
Trust at zero acquaintance: More a matter of respect than expectation of reward
Trust is essential for a secure and flourishing social life, but many economic and philosophical approaches argue that rational people should never extend it, in particular to strangers they will never encounter again. Emerging data on the trust game, a laboratory economic exchange, suggests that people trust strangers excessively (i.e., far more than their tolerance for risk and cynical views of their peers should allow). What produces this puzz…
Overfulfilling the Norm: The Better-Than-Average Effect in Judgments of Attitudes
This research extends the better-than-average (BTA) effect commonly observed in judgments of abilities and personality traits to the domain of attitudes. Participants reported their attitudes toward 18 sociopolitical issues and estimated the attitudes of most other people toward these issues. Consistent with the research on pro-norm and anti-norm deviance, for issues high (vs. low) in the injunctive norm, participants perceived their attitudes to…
Justice Concerns Can Feed Nationalistic Concerns and Impede Solidarity in the Euro Crisis: How Victim Sensitivity Translates into Political Attitudes
Institutional trust and the provision of public goods: When do individual costs matter? The case of recycling
This research asks whether and how institutional trust-trust in the reliability, effectiveness, and legitimacy of public institutions-promotes the provision of public goods. To understand the underlying mechanisms, we apply three choice models to the example of recycling behavior: a standard rational choice model, the low-cost hypothesis, and a dual-process theory. The models carry competing hypotheses about the interplay of trust and incentives …
How justice sensitivity predicts equality preferences in simulated democratic systems
Justice Sensitivity and Cooperation Dynamics in Repeated Public Good Games
Does betrayal aversion really guide trust decisions towards strangers
Trust is a double‐edged sword. When warranted, it leads to positive and rewarding interactions. When not, it leads to disappointment and anger. Therefore, it has been argued that people will display “betrayal aversion” in trust situations (i.e., avoid trusting to avoid betrayal). Yet, people also feel tense and uneasy when they signal distrust to another person and thus show signs of “principled trustfulness” (i.e., choosing to trust others altho…
The Effect of Democratically Determined (In)equality on Cooperative Behavior
We investigated the relationship between democratically determined economic inequality and cooperation in a two-stage experimental design. Although the relationship between inequality and cooperation has been studied extensively, experimental results in this area are contradictory and find inequality to have either a positive, negative, or no effect on cooperation. Our participants were randomly assigned to one of three societal classes (upper cl…
Local ties that bind: The role of perceived neighborhood cohesion and disorder for immigrants' national identification
Behavioral Trust in Competence Versus Morality: Experimental Evidence of Differences and Similarities
Life is full of decisions about whether to trust other people. At a cognitive level, people can be skeptical about another person's trustworthiness but are averse to signaling their suspicions at a behavioral level. This phenomenon of “principled trustfulness” has been documented for trust implicating the moral character of another person but not explored for cases involving their competence. We introduce a new game‐theoretical paradigm, the comp…
Psychology (16 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (5 works) · Microeconomics (5 works)