Effects of eye images on everyday cooperative behavior: a field experiment

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What's the right thing to do? Increasing pro-sociality with simple moral nudges (2017, neutral): “Several mechanisms to promote prosocial behaviour have been explored in previous work, including giving material reward, such as a t-shirt or a mug, in exchange to a prosocial action (54-55), augmenting donations using matching (56-57), making people’s actions observable by others (58-59), informing”
The watching eyes effect in the Dictator Game: it's not how much you give, it's being seen to give something (2013, result): “Thefieldfindings of Bateson et al. (2006), Ernest-Jones et al. (2011) and Francey and Bergmüller(2012) can also be interpreted in this way: what these studies showed is that people followed a local norm (paying for coffee, clearing/sorting one's litter) more when eye images were displayed.”
Strategies for cooperation in biological markets, especially for humans (2013, background): “At other times this modulation could be unconscious, as when subtle cues of observation influence monetary donations and other forms of helpfulness (Bateson et al., 2006; Burnham & Hare, 2007; Ernest-Jones et al., 2011; Haley & Fessler, 2005).”
Do watching eyes affect charitable giving? Evidence from a field experiment (2012, methodology): “That the effect only is significant on days with relatively low store attendance is in line with results reported in Bateson et al. (2011), since their results also varies according to the number of customers in the cafeteria.”