Arkady Konovalov
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Arkady Konovalov
@arkadykonovalov.bsky.social
Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham ∙ Neuroeconomics, Decision Neuroscience, and Behavioral Economics ∙ Previously at the University of Zurich and Ohio State ∙ #StandWithUkraine
📢 New (economics) preprint 📢

(with Jiaxin Yu)

Excited to share our study on the cooperation in the infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma, where we use payoff manipulations and all kinds of methods to disentangle strategies, beliefs, and preferences: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
October 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
📢 New preprint 📢
(with Daniil Luzyanin)

We use a new task to distinguish between the instantaneous and instrumental (goal-oriented) value of the same choice option in the brain using fMRI: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Excited to share our new lab website!

Konovalov Neuroeconomics Lab
konelab.org

Our research covers quite a few topics and methods across neuroeconomics, decision neuroscience, and behavioral economics:
September 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM
It turns out that these choices can be rationalized by the Charness-Rabin social preferences......unless you manipulate the stakes a bit. In two alternative treatments, cooperation rates decrease over time; we then introduce a generalized version of the Charness-Rabin function.
March 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
🚨 New preprint 🚨

"Unrewarded Cooperation" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Remember the poll that went viral in 2023?

We reproduced these results using real monetary rewards in an online lab experiment (sorry, no life and death).
March 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM