ZORA Publication List

Publications

• 2026

  • Reher, K., Götz, M., Toscano, F., & Gross, J. (2026). Does ignorance love company? The social dynamics of information avoidance Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 125, 104917. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2026.104917
  • Snijder, L. L., Stallen, M., Gross, J., & De Dreu, C. K. W. (2026). Strategically prosocial: Using acts of kindness to secure more valuable interaction partners Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 125, 104939. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2026.104939
  • Gross, J., Graf, C., & Rossetti, C. S. L. (2026). The hidden costs of human cooperation Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 30, 322–334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.09.016
  • Gross, J. (2026). The free-rider detection problem: How groups balance fairness and cooperation Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123, e2622914123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2622914123

• 2025

  • Snijder Luuk L., Gross, J., & De Dreu, C. K. W. (2025). How defense rhetoric escalates intergroup conflict IScience, 28, 113749. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.113749
  • Reher, K., Götz, M., & Gross, J. (2025). Blind spots: The (social) factors of willful ignorance Current Opinion in Psychology, 65, 102100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102100
  • Gross, J., Götz, M., & Ullrich, J. (2025). Why do people oppose new rules? Policy change, norm change, and public outrage Current Opinion in Psychology, 64, 102041. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102041
  • Gross, J., Götz, M., Reher, K., & Toscano, F. (2025). Free mobility across group boundaries promotes intergroup cooperation Communications Psychology, 3, 10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-025-00192-y

• 2024

  • Snijder, L. L., Stallen, M., & Gross, J. (2024). Decision-makers self-servingly navigate the equality-efficiency trade-off of free partner choice in social dilemmas among unequals Journal of Economic Psychology, 105, 102758. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2024.102758
  • Snijder, L. L., Gross, J., Stallen, M., & De Dreu, C. K. W. (2024). Prosocial preferences can escalate intergroup conflicts by countering selfish motivations to leave Nature Communications, 15, 9009. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53409-9
  • Cavaliere, M., Yang, G., De Dreu, C. K. W., & Gross, J. (2024). Cooperation and social organization depend on weighing private and public reputations Scientific Reports, 14, 16443. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-67080-z
  • Romano, A., Gross, J., & De Dreu, C. K. W. (2024). The nasty neighbor effect in humans Science Advances, 10, eadm7968. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adm7968
  • Gross, J., Méder, Z. Z., Romano, A., & De Dreu, C. K. W. (2024). Indirect reciprocity can foster large-scale cooperation Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121, e2409894121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2409894121
  • De Dreu, C. K. W., Gross, J., & Romano, A. (2024). Group Formation and the Evolution of Human Social Organization Perspectives on Psychological Science, 19, 320–334. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231179156
  • Romano, A., Gross, J., & De Dreu, C. K. W. (2024). Peace as Prerequisite rather than Consequence of Cooperation Peace as Prerequisite Rather than Consequence of Cooperation, 47, e25. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23002698
  • De Dreu, C. K. W., Gross, J., Arciniegas, A., Hoenig, L. C., Rojek-Giffin, M., & Scheepers, D. T. (2024). On being unpredictable and winning Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 126, 369–389. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000378

• 2023

  • de Kwaadsteniet, E. W., Gross, J., & van Dijk, E. (2023). A “More-is-Better” heuristic in anticommons dilemmas: Psychological insights from a new anticommons bargaining game Journal of Economic Psychology, 98, 102653. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2023.102653
  • Gross, J., Méder, Z. Z., De Dreu, C. K. W., Romano, A., Molenmaker, W. E., & Hoenig, L. C. (2023). The evolution of universal cooperation Science Advances, 9, eadd8289. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add8289
  • Stallen, M., Snijder, L., Jörg, G., & Leon, H. (2023). Partner choice and cooperation in social dilemmas can increase resource inequality Nature Communications, 14, 6432. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42128-2
  • Molenmaker, W. E., Gross, J., de Kwaadsteniet, E. W., van Dijk, E., & De Dreu, C. K. W. (2023). Discriminatory punishment undermines the enforcement of group cooperation Scientific Reports, 13, 6061. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33167-2
  • Rojek-Giffin, M., Lebreton, M., Daunizeau, J., Fariña, A., Gross, J., & De Dreu, C. K. W. (2023). Learning rules of engagement for social exchange within and between groups Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120, 2218443120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2218443120
  • Lojowska, M., Gross, J., & De Dreu, C. K. W. (2023). Anticipatory Threat Mitigates the Breakdown of Group Cooperation Psychological Science, 34, 87–98. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976221104037

• 2022

  • Gross, J., & Vostroknutov, A. (2022). Why do people follow social norms? Current Opinion in Psychology, 44, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.08.016
  • Li, S., Ma, S., Wang, D., Zhang, H., Li, Y., Wang, J., Li, J., Zhang, B., Gross, J., De Dreu, C. K. W., Wang, W.-X., & Ma, Y. (2022). Oxytocin and the Punitive Hub—Dynamic Spread of Cooperation in Human Social Networks Journal of Neuroscience, 42, 5930–5943. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.2303-21.2022
  • Gross, J., De Dreu, C. K. W., & Reddmann, L. (2022). Shadow of conflict: How past conflict influences group cooperation and the use of punishment Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 171, 104152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2022.104152
  • Romano, A., Gross, J., & De Dreu, C. K. W. (2022). Conflict misperceptions between citizens and foreigners across the globe PNAS Nexus, 1, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac267
  • Steinel, W., Valtcheva, K., Gross, J., Celse, J., Max, S., & Shalvi, S. (2022). (Dis)honesty in the face of uncertain gains or losses Journal of Economic Psychology, 90, 102487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2022.102487
  • De Dreu, C. K. W., Gross, J., & Reddmann, L. (2022). Environmental stress increases out-group aggression and intergroup conflict in humans Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 377, 20210147. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0147
  • De Dreu, C. K. W., Fariña, A., Gross, J., & Romano, A. (2022). Prosociality as a foundation for intergroup conflict Current Opinion in Psychology, 44, 112–116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.09.002

• 2021

  • Gross, J., & De Dreu, C. K. W. (2021). Rule Following Mitigates Collaborative Cheating and Facilitates the Spreading of Honesty Within Groups Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47, 395–409. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220927195
  • De Dreu, C. K. W., Pliskin, R., Rojek-Giffin, M., Méder, Z., & Gross, J. (2021). Political games of attack and defence Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 376, 20200135. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0135
  • Gross, J., Faber, N. S., Kappes, A., Nussberger, A.-M., Cowen, P. J., Browning, M., Kahane, G., Savulescu, J., Crockett, M. J., & De Dreu, C. K. W. (2021). When Helping Is Risky: The Behavioral and Neurobiological Trade-off of Social and Risk Preferences Psychological Science, 32, 1842–1855. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976211015942
  • Takács, K., Gross, J., Testori, M., Letina, S., Kenny, A. R., Power, E. A., & Wittek, R. P. M. (2021). Networks of reliable reputations and cooperation: a review Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 376, 1838. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0297
  • Fariña, A., Rojek-Giffin, M., Gross, J., & De Dreu, C. K. W. (2021). Social preferences correlate with cortical thickness of the orbito-frontal cortex Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16, 1191–1203. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsab074

• 2020

  • van Dijk, E., De Dreu, C. K. W., & Gross, J. (2020). Power in economic games Current Opinion in Psychology, 33, 100–104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.07.019
  • Gross, J., & Böhm, R. (2020). Voluntary restrictions on self-reliance increase cooperation and mitigate wealth inequality Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117, 29202–29211. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2013744117
  • Gross, J., Veistola, S., De Dreu, C. K. W., & Van Dijk, E. (2020). Self-reliance crowds out group cooperation and increases wealth inequality Nature Communications, 11, 5161. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18896-6
  • De Dreu, C. K. W., Gross, J., Fariña, A., & Ma, Y. (2020). Group Cooperation, Carrying-Capacity Stress, and Intergroup Conflict Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24, 760–776. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2020.06.005

• 2019

  • De Dreu, C. K. W., & Gross, J. (2019). Revisiting the form and function of conflict: Neurobiological, psychological, and cultural mechanisms for attack and defense within and between groups Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, e116. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X18002170
  • Dreu, C., & Gross, J. (2019). Homo oeconomicus with a personality – trait-based differences in decision making In A. Schram & A. Ule (Eds.), Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Experimental Economics (pp. 214–232). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788110563
  • Zhang, H., Gross, J., De Dreu, C., & Ma, Y. (2019). Oxytocin promotes coordinated out-group attack during intergroup conflict in humans ELife, 8, e40698. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.40698
  • Gross, J., & De Dreu, C. K. W. (2019). Individual solutions to shared problems create a modern tragedy of the commons Science Advances, 5, eaau7296. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau7296
  • Gross, J., & De Dreu, C. K. W. (2019). The rise and fall of cooperation through reputation and group polarization Nature Communications, 10, 776. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08727-8
  • De Dreu, C. K. W., & Gross, J. (2019). Asymmetric conflict: Structures, strategies, and settlement Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, 45–66. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X1900116X

• 2018

  • Gross, J., Leib, M., Offerman, T., & Shalvi, S. (2018). Ethical Free Riding: When Honest People Find Dishonest Partners Psychological Science, 29, 1956–1968. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797618796480
  • Gross, J., Emmerling, F., Vostroknutov, A., & Sack, A. T. (2018). Manipulation of Pro-Sociality and Rule-Following with Non-invasive Brain Stimulation Scientific Reports, 8, 1827. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19997-5

• 2016

  • De Dreu, C. K. W., Gross, J., Méder, Z., Giffin, M., Prochazkova, E., Krikeb, J., & Columbus, S. (2016). In-group defense, out-group aggression, and coordination failures in intergroup conflict Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113, 10524–10529. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1605115113
  • Gross, J., Méder, Z. Z., Okamoto-Barth, S., & Riedl, A. (2016). Building the Leviathan – Voluntary centralisation of punishment power sustains cooperation in humans Scientific Reports, 6, 20767. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep20767
  • Gross, J., & De Dreu, C. K. W. (2016). Oxytocin conditions trait-based rule adherence Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12, 427–435. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw138

• 2015

  • Gross, J., Woelbert, E., & Strobel, M. (2015). The Fox and the Grapes—How Physical Constraints Affect Value Based Decision Making PLoS ONE, 10, e0127619. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127619

• 2014

  • Gross, J., Woelbert, E., Zimmermann, J., Okamoto-Barth, S., Riedl, A., & Goebel, R. (2014). Value Signals in the Prefrontal Cortex Predict Individual Preferences across Reward Categories Journal of Neuroscience, 34, 7580–7586. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.5082-13.2014
  • Strang, S., Gross, J., Schuhmann, T., Riedl, A., Weber, B., & Sack, A. T. (2014). Be nice if you have to — the neurobiological roots of strategic fairness Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10, 790–796. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsu114