Biography

Terence D. Dores Cruz is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Research in Experimental Economics and political Decision making (CREED) at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (Faculty of Business and Economics). Terence currently studies ethical decision-making and the role of (social) information therein at Shaul Shalvi’s Behavior Ethics Lab. Terence is completing his PhD in Bianca Beersma’s FORCE-OF-GOSSIP group, where he studied the cooperative and competitive functions of gossip. During his PhD, Terence was also the student-representative for the Kurt Lewin Institute. Terence holds a research master’s degree from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Amsterdam Cooperation Lab) and bachelor’s degree from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Terence’s main research interests are human cooperation (and non-cooperation) and how cooperative behavior is shaped by reputation, social rewards, social punishments, and other types of social and non-social information. Terence takes an interdisciplinary approach building on evolutionary, social, moral, and economic psychology employing interactive experiments, vignettes, surveys, experience sampling, and diary studies to answer questions about decision-making in the domain of cooperation, morality, and ethics.