sample of publications

• articles 

  • When the Design of Climate Policy meets Public Acceptance: An Adaptive Multiplex Network Model.  ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS.  217. 2024
  • Assessing the effects of pandemic risk on cooperation and social norms using a before-after Covid-19 comparison in two long-term experiments.  Scientific Reports.  2024
  • Social interaction and negotiation outcomes: An experimental approach.  Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics.  102:101948-1-101948-18. 2023
  • On the interplay of hierarchies, conflicts, and cooperation: An experimental approach.  PNAS Nexus.  2:1-7. 2023
  • The effectiveness of prosocial policies: Gender differences arising from social norms.  PLoS One.  17:1-23. 2022
  • Behavior, decisions and ecological transition: experimental approaches with policy implications = Comportamiento, decisiones y transición ecológica: aproximaciones experimentales con implicaciones para las políticas.  Cuadernos Económicos del ICE.  2022/II:31-62. 2022
  • Chimpanzees organize their social relationships like humans.  Scientific Reports.  12:1-8. 2022
  • Structural measures of personal networks predict migrants' cultural backgrounds: an explanation from Grid/Group theory.  PNAS Nexus.  1:1-8. 2022
  • Identifying key relationships between nation-state cyberattacks and geopolitical and economic factors: A model.  Security and Communication Networks (discontinued).  2022:1-11. 2022
  • Ethnic markers and the emergence of group-specific norms: an experiment.  Scientific Reports.  12:1-14. 2022
  • Beyond Dunbar circles: a continuous description of social relationships and resource allocation.  Scientific Reports.  12:1-11. 2022
  • Gossip and competitive altruism support cooperation in a Public Good Game.  PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES.  376:1-8. 2021
  • Evidence from a long-term experiment that collective risks change social norms and promote cooperation.  Nature Communications.  12:5452-5459. 2021
  • Complex networks to understand the past: the case of roads in Bourbon Spain.  Cliometrica.  15:477-534. 2021
  • An experimental characterization of workers' behavior and accuracy in crowdsourced tasks.  PLoS One.  16:1-14. 2021
  • Evolution of social relationships between first-year students at middle school: from cliques to circles.  Scientific Reports.  11. 2021
  • Integration and diversity.  EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS.  24:387-413. 2021
  • Framing in multiple public goods games and donation to charities.  Royal Society Open Science.  8:1-13. 2021
  • Ethnic markers and the emergence of group-specific norms.  Scientific Reports.  10:1-10. 2020
  • Robots, labor markets, and universal basic income.  Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.  7:1-8. 2020
  • Competing for congestible goods: experimental evidence on parking choice.  Scientific Reports.  10:1-10. 2020
  • Cooperation, social norm internalization, and hierarchical societies.  Scientific Reports.  1-12. 2020
  • Effect of network topology and node centrality on trading.  Scientific Reports.  1-9. 2020
  • Grounding Social Foundations for Integrated Assessment Models of Climate Change.  Earths Future.  8:1-5. 2020
  • Understanding drivers when investing for impact: an experimental study.  Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.  6:1-9. 2020
  • Large scale and information effects on cooperation in public good games.  Scientific Reports.  9:1-10. 2019
  • Author Correction: Group size effects and critical mass in public goods games.  Scientific Reports.  9:1-1. 2019
  • An experimental study of network effects on coordination in asymmetric games.  Scientific Reports.  9:1-9. 2019
  • Group size effects and critical mass in public goods games.  Scientific Reports.  9:1-10. 2019
  • Resource heterogeneity leads to unjust effort distribution in climate change mitigation.  PLoS One.  13:1-17. 2018
  • Intergenerational cooperation within the household: a public good game with three generations.  Review of Economics of the Household.  1-8. 2018
  • Collaborative hierarchy maintains cooperation in asymmetric games.  Scientific Reports.  8. 2018
  • Quantitative account of social interactions in a mental health care ecosystem: cooperation, trust and collective action.  Scientific Reports.  8. 2018
  • Physics of human cooperation: experimental evidence and theoretical models.  JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT.  2018
  • Equal status in ultimatum games promotes rational sharing.  Scientific Reports.  8. 2018
  • Equilibria, information and frustration in heterogeneous network games with conflicting preferences.  JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT.  2017. 2017
  • The emergence of altruism as a social norm.  Scientific Reports.  7:1-10. 2017
  • Improving transportation networks: effects of population structure and decision making policies.  Scientific Reports.  7:1-9. 2017
  • Equilibrium characterization of networks under conflicting preferences.  ECONOMICS LETTERS.  155:154-156. 2017
  • Humans expect generosity.  Scientific Reports.  7:1-9. 2017
  • Humans display a reduced set of consistent behavioral phenotypes in dyadic games.  Science Advances.  2. 2016
  • Emotions and strategic behaviour: The case of the Ultimatum Game.  PLoS One.  11. 2016
  • Cooperation Survives and Cheating Pays in a Dynamic Network Structure with Unreliable Reputation.  Scientific Reports.  6. 2016
  • Hierarchy is Detrimental for Human Cooperation.  Scientific Reports.  5. 2015
  • Revealing patterns of local species richness along environmental gradients with a novel network tool.  Scientific Reports.  5. 2015
  • Theory must be informed by experiments (and back): comment on "Universal scaling for the dilemma strength in evolutionary games", by Z. Wang et al..  Physics of Life Reviews.  14:52-53. 2015
  • Short-Range Mobility and the Evolution of Cooperation: An Experimental Study.  Scientific Reports.  5. 2015
  • How Evolutionary Dynamics Affects Network Reciprocity in Prisoner's Dilemma.  JASSS-THE JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES AND SOCIAL SIMULATION.  18-2:1-13. 2015
  • Dynamics to Equilibrium in Network Games: Individual Behavior and Global Response.  PLoS One.  10:1-15. 2015
  • Global Information and Mobility Support Coordination Among Humans.  Scientific Reports.  4. 2014
  • Social imitation versus strategic choice, or consensus versus cooperation, in the networked Prisoner's Dilemma.  Physical review E: statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics.  90. 2014
  • Transition from reciprocal cooperation to persistent behaviour in social dilemmas at the end of adolescence.  Nature Communications.  5. 2014
  • A comparative analysis of spatial Prisoner's Dilemma experiments: Conditional cooperation and payoff irrelevance.  Scientific Reports.  4:1-9. 2014
  • More network science for teenagers.  ArXiv.org.  1-4. 2014
  • Learning dynamics explains human behaviour in Prisoner's Dilemma on networks.  Journal of the Royal Society Interface.  94. 2014
  • Gender differences in cooperation: experimental evidence on high school students.  PLoS One.  8:1-10. 2013
  • Applying the dynamics of evolution to achieve reliability in master-worker computing.  CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE.  25:2363-2380. 2013
  • Towards a proper assignment of systemic risk: the combined roles of network topology and shock characteristics.  PLoS One.  8. 2013
  • Redes sociales y cooperación.  Investigación y Ciencia.  2-3. 2013
  • Crowd computing as a cooperation problem: an evolutionary approach.  JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS.  151:654-672. 2013
  • Heterogeneous network games: conflicting preferences.  GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR.  79:56-66. 2013
  • Diversity-induced resonance in the response to social norms.  Physical review E: statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics.  87. 2013
  • Economía en un mundo complejo: Encuentro entre economía y física en la Fundación Ramón Areces.  Revista Española de Física.  4:10-14. 2012
  • A complex systems approach to constructing better models for managing financial markets and the economy.  European Physical Journal-Special Topics.  214:295-324. 2012
  • Manifesto of computational social science.  European Physical Journal-Special Topics.  214:325-346. 2012
  • Social and strategic imitation: the way to consensus.  Scientific Reports.  2: 686:1-7. 2012
  • Three is a crowd in iterated prisoner's dilemmas: experimental evidence on reciprocal behavior.  Scientific Reports.  2:1-7. 2012
  • Empathy Emerges Spontaneously in the Ultimatum Game: Small Groups and Networks.  PLoS One.  7. 2012
  • Heterogeneous networks do not promote cooperation when humans play a Prisoner's Dilemma.  PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.  109:12922-12926. 2012
  • Social dynamics and cooperation: The case of nonhuman primates and its implications for human behavior..  Advances in complex systems.  15:1-21. 2012
  • On the coexistence of cooperators, defectors and conditional cooperators in the multiplayer iterated Prisoner's Dilemma.  JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY.  300:299-308. 2012
  • Generosity pays in the presence of direct reciprocity: a comprehensive study of 2x2 repeated games.  PLoS One.  7:1-12. 2012
  • Human behavior in Prisoner's Dilemma experiments suppresses network reciprocity.  Scientific Reports.  2 (Article 325). 2012
  • Individual strategy update and emergence of cooperation in social networks.  JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL SOCIOLOGY.  36:1-21. 2012
  • Sine-Gordon wobbles through Backlund transformations.  DISCRETE AND CONTINUOUS DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS.  4:1047-1056. 2011
  • Disentangling social and group heterogeneities: Public Goods games on complex networks.  EPL.  95:1-6. 2011
  • Chaos and Unpredictability in Evolutionary Dynamics in Discrete Time.  PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS.  107:1-4. 2011
  • The spatial Ultimatum game revisited.  JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY.  278:1-10. 2011
  • Coordination and growth: the Stag Hunt game on evolutionary networks.  JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT.  1-17. 2011
  • Random topologies and the emergence of cooperation: the role of short-cuts.  JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT.  1-15. 2011
  • Evolutionary games defined at the network mesoscale: The Public Goods game.  CHAOS.  21:1-10. 2011
  • Turnout intention and random social networks.  Advances in complex systems.  14:31-53. 2011
  • Topological Traps Control Flow on Real Networks: The Case of Coordination Failures.  PLoS One.  5:15210. 2010
  • Social experiments in the mesoscale: humans playing a spatial Prisoner's Dilemma.  PLoS One.  5(e13749):1-9. 2010
  • Co-evolution of Strategies and Update Rules in Complex Prisoner's Dilemma Game on Complex Networks.  NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS.  12 (103034):103034. 2010
  • Evolutionary Game Theory: Temporal and Spatial Effects Beyond Replicator Dynamics.  Physics of Life Reviews.  6:208-249. 2009
  • Cooperative Scale-Free Networks despite the Presence of Defector Hubs.  EPL.  88:38003. 2009
  • Effect of spatial structure on the evolution of cooperation.  Physical review E: statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics.  80. 2009
  • Promotion of Cooperation on Networks? The Myopic Best Response Case.  EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL B.  71:587-595. 2009
  • Evolving Learning Rules and Emergence of Cooperation in Spatial Prisoner's Dilemma.  JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY.  259:84-95. 2009
  • The Shared Reward Dilemma on Structured Populations.  Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination.  4:183-193. 2009
  • Community Connectivity and Heterogeneity: Clues and Insights on Cooperation on Social Networks.  Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination.  3:183-199. 2008
  • Hawking-Like Emission in Kink-Soliton Escape from a Potential Well.  NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS.  10:113015. 2008
  • Complex Cooperative Networks from Evolutionary Preferential Attachment.  PLoS One.  3:2449-2449. 2008
  • Mesoscopic Structure Conditions the Emergence of Cooperation on Social Networks.  PLoS One.  3:1892. 2008
  • The Shared Reward Dilemma.  JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY.  251:253-263. 2008
  • Matemáticas para la innovación, innovación para las matemáticas.  Madri+d.  20:55-60. 2008
  • Emergence and Resilience of Cooperation in the Spatial Prisoner's Dilemma Via a Reward Mechanism.  JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY.  250:475-483. 2008

• book chapters 

  • Interdisciplinarity in the study of behaviour change: experiences, promises and challenges. In: Thinking about behaviour change: an interdisciplinary dialogue.  Silverback Publishing. 1-133. 2015

• conference contributions 

  • Cooperation, social norm internalization, and hierarchical societies 2020
  • Club formation in the climate change game 2019
  • Combining partner choice and gossip to make cooperation sustainable in a Public Goods Game 2019
  • Combining partner choice and gossip to make cooperation sustainable in a Public Goods Game.  23-23. 2019
  • Norm Emergence in Climate Change Threshold Games 2019
  • Cognitive resource allocation determines the organization of personal networks.  25-25. 2018
  • Cognitive resource allocation determines the structures of personal networks 2018
  • Cooperation-driven hierarchy is interpreted as good reputation and does not increase prosociality 2017
  • Freedom of association, social cohesion and welfare 2017
  • The role of identities on the formation of social networks: experimental lessons 2017
  • Around a table: Social lubricants for trust building.  132-133. 2016
  • Comportamiento humano: la interacción que gobierna los sistemas complejos socio-tecnológicos 2016
  • Cooperation survives and cheating pays in a networked society with unreliable reputation 2016
  • Large scale behavioral experiments: what, why and how? 2016
  • Revealing patterns of local species richness along environmental gradients with a novel network tool 2016
  • Uncovering human behavioral phenotypes: a lab-in-the-field Game Theory experiment 2016
  • Working together: an experimental approach to understand collaborative and prosocial behavior 2016
  • Conquista de Hispania y desarrollo de la red de calzadas romanas 2015
  • Evaluación y diseño de las infraestructuras aeroportuarias mediante redes temporales y ABM 2015
  • Learning dynamics explains human behavior in Prisoner's Dilemma on networks.  1-8. 2015
  • Reputation drives cooperative behaviour and network formation in human groups 2015
  • Small data: social experiments as tools for modelling 2015
  • Social imitation vs strategic choice in the networked Prisoner's Dilemma. 2015
  • Spatial coordination and cooperation among humans: experimental results 2015
  • Unveiling behavioral phenotypes in a lab-in-the-field, social dilemma experiment. 2015
  • Cooperación en redes: teorías, experimentos y experimentos bien hechos 2014
  • Física de las interacciones estratégicas 2014
  • Human coordination in the presence of local and global information: a laboratory experiment 2014
  • Moody conditional cooperation on spatially structured populations: experimental evidence and theoretical implications 2014
  • Reputation drives cooperative behaviour and network formation in human groups 2014
  • Revealing patterns of local species richness along environmental gradients with a novel network tool 2014
  • A new network technique identifies the climate fingerprint behind woody species richness in Mediterranean forests 2013
  • Cooperation in human societies: theory and experiments.  86-87. 2013
  • Cooperation increases with age in 4-player iterated Prisoner's Dilemma experiments: evidence from lab-in-the-field experiments 2013
  • Evolutionary explanation of Moody Conditional Cooperation 2013
  • From economics to ecology and back: resilience and key actors 2013
  • Heterogeneous Network Games: Conflicting Preferences.  56-66. 2013
  • Lab-in-the field transition probabilities when playing prisoner's dilemma 2013
  • Network analysis unravels patterns of species richness along a climatic gradient in Spanish forests 2013
  • Physics and (experimental) economics: should they care about each other? 2013
  • Reputation-Based Mechanisms for Evolutionary Master-Worker Computing.  98-113. 2013
  • Systematic analysis of system-caused systemic risk 2013
  • Systematic analysis of system-caused systemic risk 2013
  • Systematic analysis of system-caused systemic risk (SOE 2: Financial Markets and Risk Management I) 2013
  • Towards a proper assignment of systemic risk: the combined roles of network topology and shock characteristics.  176-176. 2013
  • Achieving Reliability in Master-worker Computing via Evolutionary Dynamics 2012
  • Achieving Reliability in Master-worker Computing via Evolutionary Dynamics.  451-463. 2012
  • High-dimensional connectivity and cooperation 2012
  • How reciprocity renders networks irrelevant for cooperation in social dilemmas 2012
  • Network Reciprocity, Large-Scale Experiments and the Prisoners Dilemma: the Last Word 2012
  • On the irrationality of consensus in heterogeneous networks 2012
  • Prevalencia de la generosidad en reciprocidad directa 2012
  • Rational and irrational dynamics are both needed to reach consensus in random topologies 2012
  • Realistic Human Behavior and Prisoners Dilemma on Networks 2012
  • Response to social norms enhancement by heterogeneous populations 2012
  • There is no such thing as network reciprocity when humans play a Prisoner´s Dilemma.  6. 2012
  • Universal reciprocal behavior in iterated prisoner's dilemmas: Three is a crowd.  117. 2012
  • Universal reciprocal behavior in iterated prisoner's dilemmas: three is a crowd 2012
  • Chaos and Unpredictability in Evolutionary Dynamics in Discrete Time 2011
  • Emergence of Responsive Strategies in Iterative Games 2011
  • Emergencia de estrategias en juegos iterados con reciprocidad directa.  154. 2011
  • Evolutionary Dynamics and Conditional Cooperation in the Iterated Prisoners Dilemma 2011
  • Human Behavior on Networks: Lessons and Perspectives from Game Theory 2011
  • Invasion Dynamics in Iterative Games 2011
  • Prisoner's Dilemma on a Sizeable Network: An Experiment with Human Subjects.  39-39. 2011
  • Prisoner's Dilemma on a Sizeable Network: Experiment and Theory.  23. 2011
  • Replicator Dynamics for the Multiplayers Prisoner's Dilemma with "Moody" Conditional Cooperators.  97-97. 2011
  • The Role of Short-Cuts for the Emergence of Cooperation on Random Topologies 2011
  • Topological Traps and Coordination Failures on Real Networks 2011
  • Community Connectivity and Heterogeneity: Clues and Insights on Cooperation on Social Networks 2008
  • Complex Cooperative Networks from Evolutionary Preferential Attachment 2008
  • Evolutionary Games and Cooperation: The Complex Effect of Population Structure 2008
  • Games on Social Networks: Cooperation, Structure and Dynamics 2008
  • Juegos evolutivos y cooperación en poblaciones estructuradas: el papel de la estructura social y la dinámica evolutiva 2008
  • Mixed Dynamics in Evolutionary Games 2008
  • Prisoners Dilemma on a Network of Heterogeneous Agents: Cooperation and Learning Coevolution 2008
  • Promotion of Cooperation on Networks? The Best Response Case 2008
  • Promotion of Cooperation on Networks? The best Response Case 2008
  • The Complex Effect of Population Structure on the Evolution of Cooperation 2008
  • Understanding the Effect of Population Structure on the Evolution of Cooperation 2008

• working papers 

  • The interactions of social norms about climate change: science, institutions and Economics 2022
  • Gender differences in the effectiveness of prosocial policies: an application to road safety 2020