Publications of Nils Köbis

Köbis, N., Oded, S., de Bruijn, A. L., Huang, S., & van Rooij, B. (2025). Is less more? Field evidence on the impact of anti-bribery policies on employee knowledge and corrupt behavior. Regulation & Governance. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70023

Leib, M., Köbis, N., & Soraperra, I. (2025). Does AI and human advice mitigate punishment for selfish behavior? An experiment on AI ethics from a psychological perspective. Computers in Human Behavior, 171, Article 108709. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2025.108709

von Schenk, A., Klockmann, V., & Köbis, N. (2025). Social preferences toward humans and machines: A systematic experiment on the role of machine payoffs. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 20(1), 165–181. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231194949

Zickfeld, J. H., Ścigała, K. A., Elbæk, C. T., Michael, J., Tønnesen, M. H., Levy, G., Ayal, S., Thielmann, I., Nockur, L., Peer, E., Capraro, V., Barkan, R., Bø, S., Bahník, Š., Nosenzo, D., Hertwig, R., Mazar, N., Weiss, A., Koessler, A.-K., Montal-Rosenberg, R., Hafenbrädl, S., Nielsen, Y. A., Kanngiesser, P., Schindler, S., Gerlach, P., Köbis, N., Jacquemet, N., Vranka, M., Ariely, D., Martuza, J. B., Feldman, Y., Białek, M., Woike, J. K., Rahwan, Z., Seidl, A., Chou, E., Kajackaite, A., Schudy, S., Glogowsky, U., Czarna, A. Z., Pfattheicher, S., & Mitkidis, P. (2025). Effectiveness of ex ante honesty oaths in reducing dishonesty depends on content. Nature Human Behaviour, 9, 169–187. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-02009-0

Leib, M., Köbis, N., Rilke, R. M., Hagens, M., & Irlenbusch, B. (2024). Corrupted by algorithms? How AI-generated and human-written advice shape (dis)honesty. The Economic Journal, 134(658), 766–784. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uead056

Purcell, Z. A., Dong, M., Nussberger, A.-M., Köbis, N., & Jakesch, M. (2024). People have different expectations for their own versus others' use of AI-mediated communication tools. British Journal of Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12727

Schmidt, E.-M., Bonati, S., Köbis, N., & Soraperra, I. (2024). GPT-3.5 altruistic advice is sensitive to reciprocal concerns but not to strategic risk. Scientific Reports, 14, Article 22274. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-73306-x

Starke, C., Ventura, A., Bersch, C., Cha, M., de Vreese, C., Doebler, P., Dong, M., Krämer, N., Leib, M., Peter, J., Schäfer, L., Soraperra, I., Szczuka, J., Tuchtfeld, E., Wald, R., & Köbis, N. (2024). Risks and protective measures for synthetic relationships. Nature Human Behaviour, 8, 1834–1836. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-02005-4

von Schenk, A., Klockmann, V., Bonnefon, J.-F., Rahwan, I., & Köbis, N. (2024). Lie detection algorithms disrupt the social dynamics of accusation behavior. iScience, 27(7), Article 110201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110201

Dorrough, A. R., Köbis, N., Irlenbusch, B., Shalvi, S., & Glöckner, A. (2023). Conditional bribery: Insights from incentivized experiments across 18 nations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(18), Article e2209731120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.220973112