© Iyad Rahwan
Main Focus
Applied behavioural science, behavioural economics
Ethical decision making, including the influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The psychology of honesty, charitable giving, corruption, deliberate ignorance
Understanding the effects of experimenter usage of deception
Field experiments in government, business, fund-raising, development, etc.
Serious games (e.g. my-goodness.net)
Curriculum Vitae
- 2019- : Research Scientist, Adaptive Rationality, MPIB
- 2017-2019: Visiting Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
- 2015-2018: Research Associate, London School of Economics
- 2008-2015: Senior Manager - Economic Research, Policy Unit, Dubai Financial Services Authority (regulator of the Dubai International Financial Centre)
Selected Publications
- Köbis, N.*, Rahwan, Z.*, Rilla, R., Supriyatno, B., Bersch, C., Ajaj, T., Bonnefon, J.-F.*, Rahwan, I.* (2025). Delegation to Artificial Intelligence can increase dishonest behaviour. Nature, 1-9. *Joint authors Full text
- Burton, J. W., Lopez-Lopez, E., Hechtlinger, S., Rahwan, Z., Aeschbach, S., ... & Hertwig, R. (2024). How large language models can reshape collective intelligence. Nature human behaviour, 8(9), 1643-1655. Full text
- Janis H Zickfeld, Karolina A Ścigała, Christian T Elbæk, ...Zoe Rahwan, ..., Panagiotis Mitkidis, Effectiveness of ex ante honesty oaths in reducing dishonesty depends on content. Nature human behaviour 9, 169–187 (2025). Full text
- Awad, E., Yoeli, E., Rahwan, I.*, & Rahwan, Z*. (2024). Heterogeneity in charitable giving preferences from over 2 million decisions worldwide. *Joint authors Preprint.
- Rahwan, Z., Yoeli, E., & Fasolo, B. (2019). Heterogeneity in banker culture and its influence on dishonesty. Nature, 575(7782), 345-349. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1741-y
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- Rahwan, Z., Hauser, O. P., Kochanowska, E., & Fasolo, B. (2018). High stakes: A little more cheating, a lot less charity. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 152, 276–295. doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2018.04.021
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Research Tools Developed
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mygoodness
A site for researching obstacles to 'effective altruism'.
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deep empathy
A site for used for building on a range of experiments regarding whether AI-generated images of disasters in local areas can evoke empathy for actual victims of disasters in far away places.