OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Rationality and Society is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
They can’t treat you well under abusive supervision: Investigating the impact of job satisfaction and extrinsic motivation on healthcare employees	25
Relative risk aversion models: How plausible are their assumptions?	20
Nudge in perspective: A systematic literature review on the ethical issues with nudging	18
Intergenerational class mobility in industrial and post-industrial societies: Towards a general theory	10
Voting behavior as social action: Habits, norms, values, and rationality in electoral participation	6
Emergence of and compliance with new social norms: The example of the COVID crisis in Germany	6
Efficiency loss and support for income redistribution: Evidence from a laboratory experiment	6
A formal model of street-level bureaucracy	5
On-Side fighting in civil war: The logic of mortal alignment in Syria	5
From green to ripe: Dynamics of peacemaking in Colombia (1998–2016)	4
Faith struggles in science: Academic schools as religious sects	4
A picture of regret: An empirical investigation of post-Brexit referendum survey data	4
The Peace of God	4
Heterogeneous coalitions and social revolutions	3
Populism and the rational choice model: The case of the French National Front	3
Trust, reputation, and the value of promises in online auctions of used goods	3
High realistic aspirations – Do normative pressures overthrow rational calculations? Applying the model of frame selection to the educational aspirations of immigrant and majority students in Germany	3
Social movements and exchanges: Sketch of a theory	2
Towards a nuanced understanding of anti-immigration sentiment in the welfare state – a program specific analysis of welfare preferences	2
Understanding the stickiness in high-SES students’ educational expectations: The role of private schools	2
Refined tastes, coarse tastes: Solving the stratification-of-goods enigma	2
Public preferences to trade-off gains in total health for health equality: Discrepancies between an abstract scenario versus the real-world scenario presented by COVID-19	2
Optimal and politically opportune language policies for the vitality of minority languages	2
Non-state order and strategic communication via symbolic dress in Yemen	2
Parental time preferences and educational choices: The role of children’s gender and of social origin	2

Selectively liberal? Social change and attitudes towards homosexual relations in the UK	1
The economics of escalation	1
Mine or ours? Unintended framing effects in dictator games	1
Do informal reasoning fallacies really shape decisions? Experimental evidence	1
Explaining mobilization for revolts by private interests and kinship relations	1
Feudal bargain in Prague: The rise, spread, and fall of craft guilds	1
The role of generalized trust and control in the employment of domestic help – An experimental case study for Germany and the UK	1
How can I help you? Multiple resource availability promotes generosity with low-value (but not high-value) resources	1
The King’s Gambit: Rationalizing the fall of the Templars	1
Hostile-emotional excess of zeal in public social media: A case study of an online firestorm against an organization	1
Political inequality in participation index - a Gini-based measure of inequalities in political participation	1
Camouflage: A dominant reaction to worsening conditions	1
The clear expectation of cultural betterment in the face of rising living standards	1
Property rights’ emergence in illicit drug markets	1
Coherence between theory and policy in Nudge and Boost: Is it relevant for evidence-based policy-making?	1
Are upper-secondary track decisions risky? Evidence from Sweden on the assumptions of risk-aversion models	1
The specialization of informal social control in a selective community: Fighting in the National Hockey League from 1947 to 2019	1
Death beyond the means: Funeral overspending and its government regulation around the world	1
Verbal interaction in a social dilemma	1