Publications

Dvorak, F., Fischbacher, U., & Schmelz, K. (2024). Strategic Conformity or Anticonformity to Avoid Punishment and Attract Reward. The Economic Journal, ueae085.

Schmelz, K. & Bowles, S. (2022). Opposition to voluntary and mandated COVID-19 vaccination as a dynamic process: Evidence and policy implications of changing beliefs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 119(13).

Schmelz, K. & Bowles, S. (2021). Overcoming COVID-19 vaccination resistance when alternative policies affect the dynamics of conformism, social norms and crowding-out. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 118(25).

Schmelz, K. (2021). Enforcement may crowd out voluntary support for Covid-19 policies, especially where trust in government is weak and in a liberal society. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 118(1).

Schmelz, K. & Ziegelmeyer, A. (2020). Reactions to (the absence of) control and workplace arrangements: Experimental evidence from the Internet and the laboratory. Experimental Economics, 23(4), 933–960. (SM)

Rudorf, S., Schmelz, K., Baumgartner, T., Wiest, R., Fischbacher, U., & Knoch, D. (2018). Neural mechanisms underlying individual differences in control-averse behavior. The Journal of Neuroscience, 38(22), 5196-5208.

Rudorf, S., Baumgartner, T., Markett, S., Schmelz, K., Wiest, R., Fischbacher, U., & Knoch, D. (2018). Intrinsic connectivity networks underlying individual differences in control-averse behavior. Human Brain Mapping, 39(12), 4857-4869.

Ziegelmeyer, A., Schmelz, K., & Ploner, M. (2012). Hidden costs of control: Four repetitions and an extension. Experimental Economics, 15(2), 323-340.