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Thomas Schilling

University of Trier

15, Universitaetsring

Trier, 54286

Germany

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (9)

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Dark Patterns to Nudge Them All? A development of a theoretical framework and an experimental examination of individuals' susceptibility to dark patterns in e-commerce

Number of pages: 75 Posted: 23 Jun 2025 Last Revised: 07 May 2026
Thomas Schilling and Anastasia Sergeeva
University of Trier and University of Luxembourg
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dark patterns, consumer vulnerability, personality, e-commerce, advertising

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Persuasive marketing, personality traits, e-commerce, dark patterns, personalization

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Theories to Advance Dark Patterns Research

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 15 Oct 2024 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2026
Thomas Schilling
University of Trier
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Demand for Multi-Year Catastrophe Insurance Contracts: Experimental Evidence for Mitigating the Insurance Gap

CESifo Working Paper No. 9442
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 08 Dec 2021
Thomas Schilling and Eric Ulm
University of Trier and Victoria University of Wellington - Te Herenga Waka
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individual decision-making, choice under risk, disaster insurance, underinsurance, status quo, subsidies

Demand for Multi-Year Catastrophe Insurance Contracts: Experimental Evidence for Mitigating the Insurance Gap

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 25 Aug 2022
Thomas Schilling and Eric Ulm
University of Trier and Victoria University of Wellington - Te Herenga Waka
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Individual decision-making ∙ Choice under risk ∙ Disaster insurance ∙ Underinsurance ∙ Subsidies.

No Evidence that Siblings’ Gender Affects Personality Across Nine Countries

University of Zurich, Department of Economics, Working Paper No. 408
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 04 Apr 2022
University of Trier, University of Zurich - Department of Economics, Victoria University of Wellington - Te Herenga Waka - Victoria Business School and Leipzig University of Applied Sciences
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Personality, economic preferences, sibling gender, sibling sex

No Evidence that Siblings’ Gender Affects Personality Across Nine Countries

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 04 Apr 2022
University of Trier, University of Zurich - Department of Economics, Victoria University of Wellington - Te Herenga Waka - Victoria Business School and Leipzig University of Applied Sciences
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personality, economic preferences, sibling gender, sibling sex

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Moral Accounting and Real Effort: Experimental Evidence 

Forthcoming in the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE)
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 19 May 2025 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2025
Eberhard Feess, Roee Sarel and Thomas Schilling
Victoria University of Wellington - Te Herenga Waka, University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics and University of Trier
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Moral Accounting, Moral Licensing, Moral Cleansing, Real effort, Crime deterrence

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BRIGHTEN-UP-DPs: A Methodological Review and Guide to Designing and Reporting Rigorous Experimental Dark Patterns Research

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 08 Apr 2026 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2026
Thomas Schilling
University of Trier
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Dark Patterns, Deceptive Designs, Experimental, Experiment, Causal Evidence, Experimentation, Behavioral Science

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Toward a regenerative future: Profiling and nudging pro-environmental leaders?

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 18 Aug 2022
Thomas Schilling
University of Trier
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Personality traits, environmentalism, policy interventions, framing, positive environmental change

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Context-dependent preferences for a decision support system's level of automation

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 19 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2024
University of Trier, University of Trier, University of Trier and University of Trier
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Level Of Autonomy, Human-Computer Interaction, Adaptable Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Participatory Design, Human-Centered Design