Frontiers in Behavioral Economics | Behavioral Microfoundations section | New and Recent Articles https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/behavioral-economics/sections/behavioral-microfoundations RSS Feed for Behavioral Microfoundations section in the Frontiers in Behavioral Economics journal | New and Recent Articles en-us Frontiers Feed Generator,version:1 2026-05-15T00:24:59.859+00:00 60 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2026.1763499 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2026.1763499 <![CDATA[Women entrepreneurship and open market systems in agri-food businesses in Thyolo and Chiradzulu, Malawi]]> 2026-05-14T00:00:00Z Original Research Wongani LangaMayeso Sabola Kachingwe https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2026.1809068 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2026.1809068 <![CDATA[Sportswear preferences and purchase decisions among Filipino university students: a sociodemographic analysis]]> 2026-05-07T00:00:00Z Original Research Joseph LoboWendy T. CortezLoui Maie C. Rivera https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2026.1820103 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2026.1820103 <![CDATA[Editorial: Coordination/ cooperation games]]> 2026-03-26T00:00:00Z Editorial Tetsuya Kawamura https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1723819 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1723819 <![CDATA[Beyond background noise: underutilized sonic choice architecture in hospitality]]> 2026-02-10T00:00:00Z Mini Review Bingqing Liu https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1725333 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1725333 <![CDATA[Financial literacy may not directly drive investment participation or retirement planning in Japan]]> 2026-01-14T00:00:00Z Original Research Yi JiangShohei Shimizu https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1697570 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1697570 <![CDATA[Integrating upstream and downstream reciprocity stabilizes cooperator-defector coexistence in others-only public goods games]]> 2026-01-13T00:00:00Z Original Research Tatsuya SasakiSatoshi UchidaIsamu OkadaHitoshi YamamotoYutaka Nakai 2) in the absence of complexity costs. We analytically derive a critical threshold for complexity costs. If cognitive demands exceed this threshold, the stable equilibrium disappears via a saddle-node bifurcation. Otherwise, within the stable regime, complexity costs counterintuitively stabilize the equilibrium by preventing not only unconditional cooperators (viewed as second-order freeloaders) but also alternative conditional strategies from invading.DiscussionRather than requiring uniformity, our model reveals one pathway to stable cooperation through strategic diversity, where defectors serve as “evolutionary shields” preventing system collapse, while integrated reciprocators flexibly combine open and discriminative responses. This framework demonstrates how pay-it-forward broadcasting and reputation systems can jointly maintain social polymorphism including cooperation despite cognitive limitations and group size challenges, offering a potential evolutionary foundation for behavioral diversity in human societies.]]> https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1495995 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1495995 <![CDATA[Communication among selected members improves cooperation in a social dilemma]]> 2025-12-04T00:00:00Z Brief Research Report Yoko KitakajiYoichi HizenSusumu Ohnuma https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1489282 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1489282 <![CDATA[Evidence-based cultural policies toward sustainable development: the case of Greece]]> 2025-11-14T00:00:00Z Original Research Aikaterini KoumoutseaAlexandros SarrisStavros ZografakisParaskevi Boufounou https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1710651 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1710651 <![CDATA[Editorial: Behavioral economics in household decisions related to sustainability and innovation]]> 2025-10-10T00:00:00Z Editorial Ji LuWenguang Zhang https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1539647 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1539647 <![CDATA[Exposure to climate-change related extreme weather events and risk preferences: evidence from farmers in Central Highland Afghanistan]]> 2025-09-24T00:00:00Z Original Research Asadullah JawidMenusch Khadjavi https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1569272 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1569272 <![CDATA[Novel evidence of team reasoning in spatially-framed experimental bargaining games]]> 2025-07-16T00:00:00Z Original Research Andrea IsoniAnders PoulsenRobert SugdenKei Tsutsui https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1444022 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1444022 <![CDATA[Financial literacy and investment decision: an empirical study from the Palestine Stock Exchange]]> 2025-06-25T00:00:00Z Original Research Fairouz Sa'eed Mohammed Darwish https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1596416 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1596416 <![CDATA[Understanding environmental decision-making in forest restoration: the role of latent attitudes, attribute non-attendance, and choice behavior]]> 2025-05-20T00:00:00Z Original Research Chulhyun Jeon https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1379577 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1379577 <![CDATA[Subjective financial scarcity today = objective financial scarcity in the future? The impact of subjective financial scarcity on saving for retirement]]> 2025-04-22T00:00:00Z Original Research Kristjan PulkThomas Post https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1449488 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1449488 <![CDATA[Reluctance to initiate cooperation: the trade-off between effectiveness and hesitation in the sequential one-shot prisoner's dilemma]]> 2025-04-02T00:00:00Z Brief Research Report Hirofumi HashimotoKanako NaganobuKaede MaedaShigehito Tanida https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1296207 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1296207 <![CDATA[Round, just-below, or precise prices? Cultural differences in the prevalence of price endings in E-commerce]]> 2025-03-13T00:00:00Z Original Research Alfio VenturaEve Sarah TrollMeikel SolimanDavid D. Loschelder https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1493427 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1493427 <![CDATA[Cooperation beyond group boundaries is evaluated differently depending on the existence of intergroup competition]]> 2025-03-07T00:00:00Z Original Research Wakaba TateishiNobuyuki Takahashi https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1492421 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1492421 <![CDATA[Meritocracy or malfeasance: violations of meritocracy erode civic rule following]]> 2025-02-21T00:00:00Z Original Research Reuben KlineFabio GaleottiRaimondello Orsini https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1494271 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2025.1494271 <![CDATA[Individualism: the end of social cohesion? The effects of inequality and group identity on cooperation]]> 2025-02-04T00:00:00Z Original Research Sebastian SennNico MutznerVincent OberhauserHeiko Rauhut https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2024.1547739 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frbhe.2024.1547739 <![CDATA[Editorial: Sports, economics, and natural experiments: advances and retrospection]]> 2025-01-17T00:00:00Z Editorial Raphael FleppRomain GauriotCarl Singleton