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In this talk, I will present experimental and survey evidence from a Swiss Army training programme to study how social interactions in randomly allocated real groups strengthen social ties, affect determinants of cooperation and shape cooperative behaviour. In our experiment, participants were matched with either a socially “close” or “distant” person and played a set of one-shot games. Participants in closer social ties were more likely to expect cooperation, less likely to choose payoff-maximi

Brief bio: I am a Professor of Applied Microeconomics and Founding Director of the Choice Research Centre at the University of Leicester School of Business. I am currently a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Before joining the University of Leicester, I was an Associate Professor of Economics at the Nottingham School of Economics and Deputy Director of the Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx). As an applied micro-economist, I use a combination of theoretical and multi-disciplinary insights as well as experimental and observational data to study human behaviour and decision-making. The areas of concentration of my research are: equity, diversity and inclusion; social identity, cohesion and economic behaviour; creativity, the science of doing science, and reproducibility; robustness of individual preferences; and the “mechanics” of human cooperation. I have published a range of papers including articles that appeared (or are forthcoming) in the American Economic Review, the Economic Journal, Experimental Economics, Management Science, and the Review of Economics and Statistics.