Frey
Biographic Data
| ID | 36134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frey |
| FAMILY NAME | Frey |
| SIGNATURE | FREY |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5665-9697 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Trends of Friends – Time dynamics of Surface- and Deep- level traits in friendship formation and maintenance
People become friends with one another primarily due to things they have in common, like shared demographic characteristics or shared interests. But on what similarities are people becoming friends at different stages of knowing one another? To study this, we use a longitudinal dataset that followed a cohort of students of one study programme at a Swiss technical university. We model how demographic traits of nationality and gender, and less obse…
Talk Less to Strangers
Identity diversity in teams brings advantages for complex decision-making because it is associated with cognitive diversity among team members. At the same time, homophilous interactions along shared identity dimensions can hinder information exchange among dissimilar individuals and threaten successful exploitation of the team’s cognitive diversity. We present an agent-based model to investigate how homophily impacts decision-making quality in d…
Bridging the Digital Divide Narrows the Participation Gap
Socio-economic inequality in access to the internet has decreased in affluent societies. We investigate how gaining access to the internet affected the civic and political participation of relatively disadvantaged late adopters by studying a quasi-natural experiment related to the American National Election Studies. In 2012, when about 80% of the U.S. population was already connected to the internet, the ANES face-to-face study was for the first …
Who influences lower-status individuals more
People are influenced by members of high-status groups and members of their ingroup. These principles of "status orientation" and "ingroup orientation" can imply opposing forces for people of lower status. Are lower-status individuals more influenced by members of higher-status outgroups or by members of their lower-status ingroup? Engaging status characteristics theory and self-categorization theory, we predict that status orientation is relativ…
Do self-talk phrases affect behavior in ultimatum games
The current study investigates whether self-talk phrases can influence behavior in Ultimatum Games. In our three self-talk treatments, participants were instructed to tell themselves ( i ) to keep their own interests in mind, ( ii ) to also think of the other person, or ( iii ) to take some time to contemplate their decision. We investigate how such so-called experimenter-determined strategic self-talk phrases affect behavior and emotions in comp…
Investments in and returns on network embeddedness
On Gergely's Hungarian Film 1929–1947
On Gergely's Hungarian Film 1929–1947:National Identity, Anti-Semitism, and Popular Cinema David Frey Gábor Gergely, Hungarian Film 1929–1947: National Identity, Anti-Semitism, and Popular Cinema. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. 330 pp. ISBN 978-94-6298-0761. Gábor Gergely's Hungarian Film 1929–1947 came out weeks before I. B. Tauris published my own book, Jews, Nazis, and the Cinema of Hungary, 1929–44. Gergely and I agree on much, …
Strategic tie formation for long-term exchange relations
Theory and empirical research have established that repeated interactions foster cooperation in social dilemmas. These effects of repeated interactions are meanwhile well known. Given these effects, actors have incentives for strategic tie formation in social dilemmas: they have incentives to establish long-term relations involving repeated interactions. Perhaps surprisingly, models accounting for strategic tie formation are scarce. We introduce …
Trust Games
This article offers an overview of different variants of trust games and shows how game-theoretic modeling can contribute to an analysis of conditions for placing and honoring trust in such games. The focus is on explaining trust rather than on explaining consequences of trust for individual behavior or for outcomes such as societal cohesion or economic prosperity. Specifically, game-theoretic modeling allows for analyzing how the “embeddedness” …
Boosting trust by facilitating communication
Trust problems hamper many social and economic exchanges. In such situations, there are often institutions that enable trustors to share information on the performance of trustees. While the benefits of such institutions have been researched extensively, little is known about their emergence. This article presents a game-theoretic model for the understanding of investments by trustees in establishing information sharing between trustors. The mode…
Embedding Trust
Social relations through which information disseminates promote efficiency in social and economic interactions that are characterized by problems of trust. This provides incentives for rational actors to invest in their relations. In this article, we study a game-theoretic model in which two trustors interact repeatedly with the same trustee and decide, at the beginning of the game, whether to invest in establishing an information exchange relati…
Strategic Network Formation, Games on Networks, and Trust
This paper brings two major research lines in current sociology together. Research on social networks has long focused primarily on network effects but meanwhile also addresses the emergence and dynamics of networks. Research on trust in social and economic relations shows that networks have effects on trust. Using game theory, we provide a simple model that allows for an integrated and simultaneous analysis of network effects on trust and for th…
The rationality of social structure
Outsourcing of Domestic Tasks
The outsourcing of domestic tasks is an important strategy for coping with the competing time claims of the family and the workplace. Previous research explained the use of domestic help mainly in terms of financial and time constraints. In this article, we conceptualize household work as producing not only goods but also direct utility, and we argue that the more pleasure household members take in doing domestic work, the less they outsource it.…
Outsourcing of Domestic Tasks
The outsourcing of domestic tasks is an important strategy for coping with the competing time claims of the family and the workplace. Previous research explained the use of domestic help mainly in terms of financial and time constraints. In this article, we conceptualize household work as producing not only goods but also direct utility, and we argue that the more pleasure household members take in doing domestic work, the less they outsource it.…
Boosting trust by facilitating communication
Trust problems hamper many social and economic exchanges. In such situations, there are often institutions that enable trustors to share information on the performance of trustees. While the benefits of such institutions have been researched extensively, little is known about their emergence. This article presents a game-theoretic model for the understanding of investments by trustees in establishing information sharing between trustors. The mode…
Embedding Trust
Social relations through which information disseminates promote efficiency in social and economic interactions that are characterized by problems of trust. This provides incentives for rational actors to invest in their relations. In this article, we study a game-theoretic model in which two trustors interact repeatedly with the same trustee and decide, at the beginning of the game, whether to invest in establishing an information exchange relati…
Strategic tie formation for long-term exchange relations
Theory and empirical research have established that repeated interactions foster cooperation in social dilemmas. These effects of repeated interactions are meanwhile well known. Given these effects, actors have incentives for strategic tie formation in social dilemmas: they have incentives to establish long-term relations involving repeated interactions. Perhaps surprisingly, models accounting for strategic tie formation are scarce. We introduce …
Who influences lower-status individuals more
People are influenced by members of high-status groups and members of their ingroup. These principles of "status orientation" and "ingroup orientation" can imply opposing forces for people of lower status. Are lower-status individuals more influenced by members of higher-status outgroups or by members of their lower-status ingroup? Engaging status characteristics theory and self-categorization theory, we predict that status orientation is relativ…
The rationality of social structure
Outsourcing of Domestic Tasks
The outsourcing of domestic tasks is an important strategy for coping with the competing time claims of the family and the workplace. Previous research explained the use of domestic help mainly in terms of financial and time constraints. In this article, we conceptualize household work as producing not only goods but also direct utility, and we argue that the more pleasure household members take in doing domestic work, the less they outsource it.…
Strategic Network Formation, Games on Networks, and Trust
This paper brings two major research lines in current sociology together. Research on social networks has long focused primarily on network effects but meanwhile also addresses the emergence and dynamics of networks. Research on trust in social and economic relations shows that networks have effects on trust. Using game theory, we provide a simple model that allows for an integrated and simultaneous analysis of network effects on trust and for th…
Embedding Trust
Social relations through which information disseminates promote efficiency in social and economic interactions that are characterized by problems of trust. This provides incentives for rational actors to invest in their relations. In this article, we study a game-theoretic model in which two trustors interact repeatedly with the same trustee and decide, at the beginning of the game, whether to invest in establishing an information exchange relati…
Trust Games
This article offers an overview of different variants of trust games and shows how game-theoretic modeling can contribute to an analysis of conditions for placing and honoring trust in such games. The focus is on explaining trust rather than on explaining consequences of trust for individual behavior or for outcomes such as societal cohesion or economic prosperity. Specifically, game-theoretic modeling allows for analyzing how the “embeddedness” …
Boosting trust by facilitating communication
Trust problems hamper many social and economic exchanges. In such situations, there are often institutions that enable trustors to share information on the performance of trustees. While the benefits of such institutions have been researched extensively, little is known about their emergence. This article presents a game-theoretic model for the understanding of investments by trustees in establishing information sharing between trustors. The mode…
Investments in and returns on network embeddedness
On Gergely's Hungarian Film 1929–1947
On Gergely's Hungarian Film 1929–1947:National Identity, Anti-Semitism, and Popular Cinema David Frey Gábor Gergely, Hungarian Film 1929–1947: National Identity, Anti-Semitism, and Popular Cinema. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. 330 pp. ISBN 978-94-6298-0761. Gábor Gergely's Hungarian Film 1929–1947 came out weeks before I. B. Tauris published my own book, Jews, Nazis, and the Cinema of Hungary, 1929–44. Gergely and I agree on much, …
Strategic tie formation for long-term exchange relations
Theory and empirical research have established that repeated interactions foster cooperation in social dilemmas. These effects of repeated interactions are meanwhile well known. Given these effects, actors have incentives for strategic tie formation in social dilemmas: they have incentives to establish long-term relations involving repeated interactions. Perhaps surprisingly, models accounting for strategic tie formation are scarce. We introduce …
Do self-talk phrases affect behavior in ultimatum games
The current study investigates whether self-talk phrases can influence behavior in Ultimatum Games. In our three self-talk treatments, participants were instructed to tell themselves ( i ) to keep their own interests in mind, ( ii ) to also think of the other person, or ( iii ) to take some time to contemplate their decision. We investigate how such so-called experimenter-determined strategic self-talk phrases affect behavior and emotions in comp…
Talk Less to Strangers
Identity diversity in teams brings advantages for complex decision-making because it is associated with cognitive diversity among team members. At the same time, homophilous interactions along shared identity dimensions can hinder information exchange among dissimilar individuals and threaten successful exploitation of the team’s cognitive diversity. We present an agent-based model to investigate how homophily impacts decision-making quality in d…
Bridging the Digital Divide Narrows the Participation Gap
Socio-economic inequality in access to the internet has decreased in affluent societies. We investigate how gaining access to the internet affected the civic and political participation of relatively disadvantaged late adopters by studying a quasi-natural experiment related to the American National Election Studies. In 2012, when about 80% of the U.S. population was already connected to the internet, the ANES face-to-face study was for the first …
Who influences lower-status individuals more
People are influenced by members of high-status groups and members of their ingroup. These principles of "status orientation" and "ingroup orientation" can imply opposing forces for people of lower status. Are lower-status individuals more influenced by members of higher-status outgroups or by members of their lower-status ingroup? Engaging status characteristics theory and self-categorization theory, we predict that status orientation is relativ…
Trends of Friends – Time dynamics of Surface- and Deep- level traits in friendship formation and maintenance
People become friends with one another primarily due to things they have in common, like shared demographic characteristics or shared interests. But on what similarities are people becoming friends at different stages of knowing one another? To study this, we use a longitudinal dataset that followed a cohort of students of one study programme at a Swiss technical university. We model how demographic traits of nationality and gender, and less obse…
Economics (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (7 works) · Microeconomics (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Game theory (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (4 works)