Martina Testori is a computational social scientist studying how different means can be used to sustain cooperative and sustainable behaviors.
Martina looks at how information, including gossip, and reputation impacts cooperation in groups and communities. She is also interested in how different interventions can promote more sustainable behaviours and the achievement of sustainable development. Martina uses experimental methods and agent-based modelling to investigate cooperative and socially sustainable dynamics at the individual and collective level.
Martina is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She completed her PhD in Applied Mathematics at the University of Southampton in 2020.
Publications
Testori, M., Hemelrijk, C. K., & Beersma, B. (2022). Gossip promotes cooperation only when it is prosocially motivated. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1-12. IF:4.38 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-08670-7
Testori, M., Eisenbarth, H., & Hoyle, R. B. (2022). Selfish risk-seeking can provide an evolutionary advantage in a conditional public goods game. Plos one, 17(1), e0261340. IF:3.24 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261340
Takács, K., Gross, J., Testori, M., Letina, S., Kenny, A. R., Power, E. A., & Wittek, R. P. (2021). Networks of reliable reputations and cooperation: a review. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376(1838), 20200297. IF: 6.24 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0297
Lo Iacono, S., & Testori, M., (2021). Who are We Trusting? A Category-Based Formalisation of Trust. In Trust Matters: Cross-Disciplinary Essays, 35
Dores Cruz, T. D., Nieper, A. S., Testori, M., Martinescu, E., & Beersma, B. (2020). An Integrative Definition and Framework to Study Gossip. Group & Organization Management, 1059601121992887. IF: 3.94 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1059601121992887
Testori, M., Harris, T. O., Hoyle, R. B., & Eisenbarth, H. (2019). The effect of psychopathy on cooperative strategies in an iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma experiment with emotional feedback. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 2299. IF:4.38 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-38796-0
Testori, M., Hoyle, R.B. & Eisenbarth, H., (2019). How group composition affects cooperation in fixed networks: can psychopathic traits influence group dynamics?. Royal Society Open Science, 6(3), 181329. IF:2.96 DOI:10.1098/rsos.181329
Testori, M., Kempf M, Hoyle R.B., Eisenbarth H. (2019) When do psychopathic traits affect cooperative behaviour? An iterated Prisoner's Dilemma experimental study. Journal of Individual Differences. IF:2.07 DOI: 10.1027/1614-0001/a000295