List of publications

1. Articles in journals:
  1. Zheng, J., H. Couprie and A. Hopfensitz (2025). Collective risk-taking by couples: individual vs household risk. Theory and Decision. {Springer}
  2. Galeotti, F., A. Hopfensitz and C. Mantilla (2024). Climate change education through the lens of behavioral economics: A
    systematic review of studies on observed behavior and social norms. Ecological Economics. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108338
  3. Zylbersztejn, A., Z. Babutsidze, N. Hanaki and A. Hopfensitz (2024). How beautiful people see the world: Cooperativeness judgments of and by beautiful people. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organizations. vol. 218. 296-308. [ScienceDirect]
  4. Hopfensitz, A. and C. Mantilla (2023). Smiles behind a mask are detectable and affect judgments of attractiveness, trustworthiness, and competence. Journal of Economic Psychology. vol. 98 [ScienceDirect]
  5. Barragan-Jason, G. and A. Hopfensitz (2023). Self-control is negatively linked to pro-sociality in young children. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. (also featured in 'Children's Decision Making') [Wiley]
  6. Tisserand, J-C., A. Hopfensitz, S. Blondel, Y. Loheac, C. Mantilla, G. Mateu, J. Rosaz, A. Rozan, M. Willinger, A. Sutan (2022). Management of common pool resources in a nation-wide experiment. Ecological Economics [ScienceDirect]
  7. Borau, S., Couprie, H. and A. Hopfensitz (2022). The prosociality of married people: evidence from a large multinational sample. october (92), Journal of Economic Psychology. [ScienceDirect]
  8. Tognetti, A., Durand, V., Dubois, D., Barkat-Defradas, M., Ferdenzi, C. and A. Hopfensitz (2022). The smell of cooperativeness: Do human body odours advertise cooperative behaviours? British Journal of Psychology, may, 113(2): 531-546 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12544
  9. Barragan-Jacon, G. and A. Hopfensitz (2021). Children with higher screen time exposure were less likely to show patience and to make school friends at 4–6 years of age. Acta Paediatrica. [Wiley] 
  10. Lespiau, F., Hopfensitz, A. and Kaminski, G. (2021). Keeping it for yourself or your sister? Experimental evidence on birth order effects on resource distribution between kin and non-kin. Journal of Economic Psychology. 82 [ScienceDirect]
  11. Barragan-Jason, G., M. Cauchoix, A. Regnier, M. Bourjade, A. Hopfensitz and A. S. Chaine (2021). Schoolchildren cooperate more successfully with non-kin than with siblings. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 288 (1944) {RoyalSociety]
  12. Salvia, E., Mevel, K., Borst, G., Poirel, N., Simon, G., Orliac, F., Etard, O., Hopfensitz, A., Houdé, O., Bonnefon, J. F., and De Neys, W. (2020). Age-related neural correlates of facial trustworthiness detection during economic interaction. Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics. 13(1), 19–33 [APA]
  13. Tognetti, A., Durand, V., Barkat-Defradas, M. and Hopfensitz, A. (2020). Does he sound cooperative? Acoustic correlates of cooperativeness. British Journal of Psychology. 111(4): 823-839 [Wiley]
  14. Hopfensitz, A. and C. Mantilla (2019). Emotional expressions by sports teams: an analysis of world cup soccer player portraits. Journal of Economic Psychology. 75(B); 102071 [ScienceDirect]
  15. Hopfensitz, A., Mantilla, C. and J. Miquel-Florensa (2019). Catch Uncertainty and Reward Schemes in a Commons Dilemma: An Experimental Study. Environmental & Resource Economics, 72(4): 1121-1153. [Springer Link]
  16. Cochard, F., Couprie, H. and A. Hopfensitz (2018). What if women earned more than their spouses? An experimental investigation of work division in couples. Experimental Economics. 21: 50-71 [SpringerLink] {seminar presentation Oxford on Youtube]
  17. Barragan-Jason, G., Atance, C.  Kopp, L. and A. Hopfensitz (2018), Two Facets of Patience in Young Children: Waiting With and Without an Explicit Reward. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 171: 14–30 [ScienceDirect]
  18. de Neys, W., Hopfensitz, A. and J.-F. Bonnefon (2017). Split-second trustworthiness detection from faces in an economic game. Experimental Psychology. 64(4): 231-239 [Hogrefe]
  19. Bonnefon, J.-F., Hopfensitz, A. and W. de Neys (2017). Can we detect cooperators by looking at their face? Current Directions in Psychological Science. 26(3): 276-281. [SAGEpub]
  20. Bonnefon, J.-F., Hopfensitz, A. and W. de Neys (2017). Trustworthiness perception at zero acquaintance: Consensus, accuracy and prejudice. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 40 [CambridgeCore]
  21. Stieglitz, J., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H. and A. Hopfensitz (2017). Why household inefficiency? An experimental approach to assess spousal resource distribution preferences in a subsistence population undergoing socioeconomic change. Evolution and Human Behavior. 38(1): 71-81. [E&HB]
  22. Hopfensitz, A. and J. Miquel-Florensa (2017). Mill Ownership and Farmer's Cooperative Behavior:  The case of Costa Rica Coffee Farmers. Journal of Institutional Economics. 13(3): 623-648. [CambridgeCore] [REPEC]
  23. Loheac, Y., et. al. (2017). Mise en place d'une experience avec le grand public : entre recherche, vulgarisation et pedagogie. Revue Economique. [CAIRN]  [REPEC]
  24. Attanasi, G., Hopfensitz, A., Lorini, E. and F. Moisan (2016). Social connectedness improves co-ordination on individually costly, efficient outcomes. European Economic Review. 90: 86-109. [ScienceDirect]  [REPEC]
  25. Cochard, F., Couprie, H. and Hopfensitz, A. (2016). Do couples cooperate? An experimental investigation. Review of Economics of the Household. 14(1): 1-26 [SpringerLink] [REPEC]
  26. Miquel-Florensa, P. and Hopfensitz A. (2015). Experimentos de bienes públicos y Cooperativas cafeteras: Estudio en el Departamento de Caldas. Economia Cafeteria, 30: 87-98.
  27. Beblo, M., D. Beninger, F. Cochard, H. Couprie and A. Hopfensitz (2015). Efficiency-Equality Trade-off within French and German Couples – A Comparative Experimental Study, Annals of Economics and Statistics. 117/118 (January/June): 233-252. [JSTOR] [REPEC]
  28. De Neys, W., Hopfensitz, A. and J.-F. Bonnefon (2015). Adolescents gradually improve at detecting trustworthiness from the facial features of unknown adults. Journal of Economic Psychology. 47: 17-22. [ScienceDirect] [REPEC]
  29. Bonnefon, J.-F., Hopfensitz, A. and W. de Neys (2015). Face-ism and kernels of truth in facial inferences. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 19(8): 421–422. [ScienceDirect]
  30. Centorrino, S., Djemai, E., Hopfensitz, A., Milinski, M. and P. Seabright (2015). A Model of Smiling as a Costly Signal of Cooperation Opportunities. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. 1(3): 325-340 [SpringerLink]
  31. Centorrino, S., Djemai, E., Hopfensitz, A., Milinski, M. and P. Seabright (2015). Honest signalling in trust interactions: smiles rated as genuine induce trust and signal higher earnings opportunities. Evolution and Human Behavior. 36: 8-16.  (discussed on: Phys.org, RedOrbit) [ScienceDirect]
  32. Hopfensitz, A., Lorini, E. and F. Moisan (2014). Conflicting goals and their impact on games where payoffs are more or less ambiguous. commentary on "Mapping Collective Behavior in the Big-data Era".  Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 37(1): 85-87. [BBS]
  33. Attanasi, G., Hopfensitz, A., Lorini, E. and F. Moisan (2014). The Effects of Social Ties on Coordination: Conceptual Foundations for an Empirical Analysis. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. 13(1): 47-73. [SpringerLink]
  34. De Neys, W., Hopfensitz, A. and J.-F. Bonnefon (2013). Low second-to-fourth digit ratio predicts indiscriminant social suspicion, not improved trustworthiness detection. Biology Letters, vol. 9(2). (press coverage in Die Zeit, Der Spiegel) [biol. letters]
  35. Bonnefon, J.-F., Hopfensitz, A. and W. de Neys (2013). The modular nature of trustworthiness detection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Vol. 142(1), 143-150 [PsycNet]
  36. van Winden, F., Krawczyk, M., and Hopfensitz, A. (2011). Investment, Resolution of Risk, and the Role of Affect. Journal of Economic Psychology, 32(6), 918-939. [ScienceDirect] [REPEC]
  37. Centorrino, S., Djemai, E., Hopfensitz, A., Milinski, M. and Seabright, P. (2010). Honest smiles as a costly signal in social exchange. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 33, 439-439. [BBS]
  38. Hopfensitz, A. and Reuben, E. (2009). The importance of emotions for the effectiveness of social punishment. The Economic Journal. 119(540): 1534-1559. [InterScience] [REPEC]
  39. Hopfensitz, A. and van Winden, F. (2008). Dynamic Choice, Independence, and Emotions. Theory and Decision, 64:249-300 [SpringerLink] [REPEC]
  40. Vasalou, A., Hopfensitz, A., and Pitt, J. (2008). In praise of forgiveness: ways for repairing trust breakdowns in episodic online interactions. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 66(6): 466-480 (discussed on Usability News) [ScienceDirect]
  41. van Veelen, M. and Hopfensitz, A. (2007). In Love and War; altruism, norm formation, and two different types of group selection. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 249(4): 667-680 [ScienceDirect]
  42. Ben-Shakhar, G., Bornstein, G., Hopfensitz, A., and van Winden, F. (2007). reciprocity and emotions in bargaining using physiological and self-report measures. Journal of Economic Psychology, 28(3): 314-323.[ScienceDirect] [REPEC]
  43. Bowles, S., Choi, J.-K., and Hopfensitz, A. (2003). The co-evolution of individual behaviors and social institutions. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 223:135-147.[ScienceDirect]

2. Contributions to books:​
  1. Cavalan, Q. and A. Hopfensitz (forthcoming). Methodological Challenges in Studying Households: Measuring Behaviors and Beliefs. In Encyclopedia of Measurement in Social Sciences (Elsevier) editors Ajita Srivastava and Klaus Boehnke.
  2. Hopfensitz, A. and A. Zylbersztejn (forthcoming). Beauty bias. In Encyclopedia of Experimental Social Science editor Bereket Kebede.
  3. Hopfensitz, A., Sterz, A., and B. Wiese (forthcoming). Spousal interactions. In Handbook on experimental economics of gender (Edward Elgar) editors Maria Cubel and Christiane Schwieren
  4. Hopfensitz, A. and A. Munro (2025). Behavioral household economics. In  Edward Elgar Encyclopedia of Behavioural and Experimental Economics. editor Swee-Hoon Chuah. 
  5. Hopfensitz, A. and A. Munro (2021). Behavioral household economics. In Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. editor Klaus Zimmermann, Springer.
  6. Hopfensitz A. (2017). Seeing and knowing others: the impact of social ties on economic interactions. In Behavioral Economics With Smart People. editor Morris Altman, Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar.
  7. Hopfensitz, A. (2015). Emotions and decision making. In Real World Decision Making: An Encyclopedia of Behavioral Economics. editor Morris Altman, Praeger ABC-CLIO. [ABC-CLIO]
  8. Hopfensitz, A. (2015). Social ties. In Real World Decision Making: An Encyclopedia of Behavioral Economics. editor Morris Altman, Praeger ABC-CLIO. [ABC-CLIO] 
  9. Hopfensitz, A. (2006). The Role of Affect in Reciprocity and Risk Taking: Experimental Studies of Economic behavior, Thela thesis, Amsterdam
  10. Hopfensitz, A. (2005). Eifersucht: Eine Leidenschaft die Leiden schafft? ('Is jealousy only made to make us feel bad?') In Blümle, G., editor, Kulturelle Ökonomik. LIT-Verlag.
  11. Henrich, J., Bowles, S., Boyd, R. T., Hopfensitz, A., Richerson, P. J., Sigmund, K., Smith, E. A., Weissing, F. J., and Young, H. P. (2003). Group report: The cultural and genetic evolution of human cooperation. In Hammerstein, P., editor, Dahlem Workshop Report 'Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation'. MIT press.

3. Working papers:
  1. Hopfensitz, A. and Wranik, T. (2008). Psychological and Environmental Determinants of Myopic Loss Aversion. NETSPAR discussion paper. Nr. 2008-013.
  2. Hopfensitz, A. (2009). Previous outcomes and reference dependence: A meta study of repeated investment tasks with and without restricted feedback. working paper.
  3. Hopfensitz, A. and Wranik, T. (2009). How to adapt to changing markets: experience and personality in a repeated investment game. MPRA working paper nr. 17835
  4. Hopfensitz, A. and P. Miquel-Florensa (2014). Investigating social capital in Colombia: Conflict and public good contributions. TSE Working Paper, n. 14-463,
  5. Chen, D., Hopfensitz, A., van Leeuwen, B. and van de Ven, J. (2019). The Strategic Display of Emotions. CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2019-014
4. Other media:
  1. Qui cherche cherche: (mini documentary on trust detection in others). youtu.be/m-mke1Oguko
  2. Le couple, l'argent : et si on en parlait ? TEDx Toulouse (spring 2017). youtu.be/9br86vmyMBg