Rahwan, Zoe

Research Scientist

Adaptive Rationality
+49 30 82406-697

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)

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)

Awad, E., Yoeli, E., Rahwan, I., & Rahwan, Z. (2024). Heterogeneity in charitable giving preferences from over 2 million decisions worldwide. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/28g3z
Rahwan, Z. and Leuker, C. (2023). When should tainted money should fund public goods: Fundraising professional and public moral preferences. PNAS Nexus, 2(9), Article pgad285. doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad285
Rahwan, Z., Fasolo, B., & Hauser, O. P. (2022). Deception about study purpose does not affect participant behavior. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1-7. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-21972-0
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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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.