1. Cristina Bicchieri has worked on problems in the philosophy of social science, rational choice and game theory.
14 Facts About Cristina Bicchieri
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Cristina Bicchieri is a leader in the field of behavioral ethics and is the director of the Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Cristina Bicchieri is a member of the advisory board at the School of Government at LUISS University of Rome, where she occasionally teaches.
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Cristina Bicchieri was knighted Cavaliere Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana in 2007.
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Cristina Bicchieri is a Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College at Cambridge University.
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Cristina Bicchieri is especially known for her work regarding the epistemic foundations of game theory and social norms.
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Cristina Bicchieri's recent experimental work is a major contribution to behavioral ethics, as it shows how different kind of expectations influence pro-social behavior.
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Cristina Bicchieri has developed a new theory of social norms that challenges several of the fundamental methodological assumptions of the social sciences.
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Cristina Bicchieri argues that the emphasis social scientists place upon rational deliberation obscures the fact that many successful choices occur even though the individuals make their choices without much deliberation.
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Cristina Bicchieri explores in depth the more automatic components of coordination and proposes a heuristic account of coordination that complements the more traditional deliberational account.
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Cristina Bicchieri applies this account of social norms and heuristic selection of norms to a number of important problems in the social sciences, including bargaining, the prisoners' dilemma and suboptimal norms based upon pluralistic ignorance.
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Cristina Bicchieri asserts that there are no such things as stable dispositions or unconditional preferences.
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Cristina Bicchieri pioneered work on counterfactuals and belief-revision in games, and the consequences of relaxing the common knowledge assumption.
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Cristina Bicchieri has devised mechanical procedures that allow players to compute solutions for games of perfect and imperfect information.