Francesca Giardini
Biographic Data
| ID | 3770964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesca Giardini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesca |
| FAMILY NAME | Giardini |
| SIGNATURE | GIARDINI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7512-0048 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Competing norms and shifting saliences. How norm beliefs affected behavior among Dutch health care interns during the Covid-19 lockdown
A social norm clearly pre- or proscribes which kind of behavior is appropriate in a given situation. However, there are situations in which two competing norms apply, meaning that two opposing types of behavior are potentially legitimate. This study examines such a scenario among health care students during the initial COVID-19 lockdown in the Netherlands in 2020. The students faced two potentially competing norms, choosing between continuing to …
The Evolution of Reputation-Based Cooperation
Gossiping and its reputation effects are viewed as the most powerful mechanism to sustain cooperation without the intervention of formal authorities. Being virtually costless, gossiping is highly effective in monitoring and sanctioning norm violators. Rational individuals cooperate in order to avoid negative reputations. But this narrative is incomplete and often leads to wrong predictions. Goal Framing Theory, a cognitive-behavioral approach anc…
Understanding post disaster prosociality
Natural disasters put an enormous strain on communities' ability to cooperate. Community resilience, which heavily depends on individuals’ prosocial attitudes, reduces the effects of disasters, determining completely different dynamics even in neighboring regions. We designed an exploratory empirical study in which we collected empirical data on behavior in two games together with survey data in seven municipalities located in two Italian regions…
What Matters Most in Supporting Cooperation, the Gossip Content or the Gossiper’s Intention? Simulating Motive Interpretation in Gossip Dynamics
Gossip provides individuals a great volume of information, which allows them to make informed decisions and better adapt to the environment around them. Like all pieces of information, however, if not correctly interpreted, gossip can lead to harmful consequences for individuals. Indeed, computational models have portrayed a complex picture on how gossip impacts cooperation, identifying several limitations of the mechanism. Recent theoretical mod…
Workplace gossip and the evolution of friendship relations
Gossip is a pervasive phenomenon in organizations causing many individuals to have second-hand information about their colleagues. However, whether it is used to inform friendship choices (i.e., friendship creation, friendship maintenance, friendship discontinuation) is not that evident. This paper articulates and empirically tests a complex contagion model to explain how gossip, through its reputational effects, can affect the evolution of frien…
Four Puzzles of Reputation-Based Cooperation
Research in various disciplines has highlighted that humans are uniquely able to solve the problem of cooperation through the informal mechanisms of reputation and gossip. Reputation coordinates the evaluative judgments of individuals about one another. Direct observation of actions and communication are the essential routes that are used to establish and update reputations. In large groups, where opportunities for direct observation are limited,…
Opinion Dynamics and Collective Risk Perception
The behavior of a heterogeneous population of individuals during an emergency, such as epidemics, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, is dynamic, emergent and complex. In this situation, reducing uncertainty about the event is crucial in order to identify and pursue the best possible course of action. People depend on experts, government sources, the media and fellow community members as potentially valid sources of information to reduce uncert…
Computational Models That Matter During a Global Pandemic Outbreak
The COVID-pandemic is causing a dramatic loss of lives worldwide, challenging the sustainability of our health care systems, threatening economic meltdown, and putting pressure on the mental health of individuals (due to social distancing and lock-down measures). The pandemic is also posing severe challenges to the scientific community, with scholars under pressure to respond to policymakers' demands for advice despite the absence of adequate, tr…
Shaping resilience
The covid-19 pandemic has strained organizational systems, with the health care field particularly affected given sudden surges of demand and changes of policy. The pandemic showcases the need to understand how social systems can be resilient to such external shocks. Drawing on ‘joint production motivation' theory, this article offers a theoretical framework linking a social system’s resilience with individual behavior. We examine a population st…
The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation
Reputations can make or break citizens, communities, or companies. Reputations matter for individual careers, for one’s chances of finding a partner, for a profession’s credibility, or for the value of a firm’s stock options – to name but a few. The key mechanism for the creation, maintenance, and destruction of reputations in everyday life is gossip – evaluative talk about absent third parties. Reputation and gossip are inseparably intertwined, …
Towards Computational and Behavioral Social Science
In the last few years, the study of social phenomena has hosted a renewal of interest in Computational Social Science (CSS). While this field is not new – Axelrod’s first computational work on the evolution of cooperation goes back to 1981 – CSS has recently resurged under the pressure of quantitative social science and the application of Big Data analytics to social datasets. However, Big Data is no panacea and the data deluge that it provides r…
Symposium on ‘‘Cognition and Rationality
Four Puzzles of Reputation-Based Cooperation
Research in various disciplines has highlighted that humans are uniquely able to solve the problem of cooperation through the informal mechanisms of reputation and gossip. Reputation coordinates the evaluative judgments of individuals about one another. Direct observation of actions and communication are the essential routes that are used to establish and update reputations. In large groups, where opportunities for direct observation are limited,…
Opinion Dynamics and Collective Risk Perception
The behavior of a heterogeneous population of individuals during an emergency, such as epidemics, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, is dynamic, emergent and complex. In this situation, reducing uncertainty about the event is crucial in order to identify and pursue the best possible course of action. People depend on experts, government sources, the media and fellow community members as potentially valid sources of information to reduce uncert…
Shaping resilience
The covid-19 pandemic has strained organizational systems, with the health care field particularly affected given sudden surges of demand and changes of policy. The pandemic showcases the need to understand how social systems can be resilient to such external shocks. Drawing on ‘joint production motivation' theory, this article offers a theoretical framework linking a social system’s resilience with individual behavior. We examine a population st…
Towards Computational and Behavioral Social Science
In the last few years, the study of social phenomena has hosted a renewal of interest in Computational Social Science (CSS). While this field is not new – Axelrod’s first computational work on the evolution of cooperation goes back to 1981 – CSS has recently resurged under the pressure of quantitative social science and the application of Big Data analytics to social datasets. However, Big Data is no panacea and the data deluge that it provides r…
Symposium on ‘‘Cognition and Rationality
Towards Computational and Behavioral Social Science
In the last few years, the study of social phenomena has hosted a renewal of interest in Computational Social Science (CSS). While this field is not new – Axelrod’s first computational work on the evolution of cooperation goes back to 1981 – CSS has recently resurged under the pressure of quantitative social science and the application of Big Data analytics to social datasets. However, Big Data is no panacea and the data deluge that it provides r…
The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation
Reputations can make or break citizens, communities, or companies. Reputations matter for individual careers, for one’s chances of finding a partner, for a profession’s credibility, or for the value of a firm’s stock options – to name but a few. The key mechanism for the creation, maintenance, and destruction of reputations in everyday life is gossip – evaluative talk about absent third parties. Reputation and gossip are inseparably intertwined, …
Computational Models That Matter During a Global Pandemic Outbreak
The COVID-pandemic is causing a dramatic loss of lives worldwide, challenging the sustainability of our health care systems, threatening economic meltdown, and putting pressure on the mental health of individuals (due to social distancing and lock-down measures). The pandemic is also posing severe challenges to the scientific community, with scholars under pressure to respond to policymakers' demands for advice despite the absence of adequate, tr…
Shaping resilience
The covid-19 pandemic has strained organizational systems, with the health care field particularly affected given sudden surges of demand and changes of policy. The pandemic showcases the need to understand how social systems can be resilient to such external shocks. Drawing on ‘joint production motivation' theory, this article offers a theoretical framework linking a social system’s resilience with individual behavior. We examine a population st…
Opinion Dynamics and Collective Risk Perception
The behavior of a heterogeneous population of individuals during an emergency, such as epidemics, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, is dynamic, emergent and complex. In this situation, reducing uncertainty about the event is crucial in order to identify and pursue the best possible course of action. People depend on experts, government sources, the media and fellow community members as potentially valid sources of information to reduce uncert…
Workplace gossip and the evolution of friendship relations
Gossip is a pervasive phenomenon in organizations causing many individuals to have second-hand information about their colleagues. However, whether it is used to inform friendship choices (i.e., friendship creation, friendship maintenance, friendship discontinuation) is not that evident. This paper articulates and empirically tests a complex contagion model to explain how gossip, through its reputational effects, can affect the evolution of frien…
Four Puzzles of Reputation-Based Cooperation
Research in various disciplines has highlighted that humans are uniquely able to solve the problem of cooperation through the informal mechanisms of reputation and gossip. Reputation coordinates the evaluative judgments of individuals about one another. Direct observation of actions and communication are the essential routes that are used to establish and update reputations. In large groups, where opportunities for direct observation are limited,…
What Matters Most in Supporting Cooperation, the Gossip Content or the Gossiper’s Intention? Simulating Motive Interpretation in Gossip Dynamics
Gossip provides individuals a great volume of information, which allows them to make informed decisions and better adapt to the environment around them. Like all pieces of information, however, if not correctly interpreted, gossip can lead to harmful consequences for individuals. Indeed, computational models have portrayed a complex picture on how gossip impacts cooperation, identifying several limitations of the mechanism. Recent theoretical mod…
The Evolution of Reputation-Based Cooperation
Gossiping and its reputation effects are viewed as the most powerful mechanism to sustain cooperation without the intervention of formal authorities. Being virtually costless, gossiping is highly effective in monitoring and sanctioning norm violators. Rational individuals cooperate in order to avoid negative reputations. But this narrative is incomplete and often leads to wrong predictions. Goal Framing Theory, a cognitive-behavioral approach anc…
Understanding post disaster prosociality
Natural disasters put an enormous strain on communities' ability to cooperate. Community resilience, which heavily depends on individuals’ prosocial attitudes, reduces the effects of disasters, determining completely different dynamics even in neighboring regions. We designed an exploratory empirical study in which we collected empirical data on behavior in two games together with survey data in seven municipalities located in two Italian regions…
Competing norms and shifting saliences. How norm beliefs affected behavior among Dutch health care interns during the Covid-19 lockdown
A social norm clearly pre- or proscribes which kind of behavior is appropriate in a given situation. However, there are situations in which two competing norms apply, meaning that two opposing types of behavior are potentially legitimate. This study examines such a scenario among health care students during the initial COVID-19 lockdown in the Netherlands in 2020. The students faced two potentially competing norms, choosing between continuing to …
Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gossip (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Economics (3 works)