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recommendation that future research on idea-related communication and creativity needs to distinguish the different phases of the …In recent years, research has recognized that creativity is a social process. By communicating with others, individuals … they meet others’ standards. Based on the different function of idea-related communication, we expected the structure of …
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; creativity ; innovation …
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; Creativity ; Innovation …
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Communication is well known to increase cooperation rates in social dilemma situations, but the exact mechanisms behind … this have been questioned and discussed. This study examines the impact of communication on public good provisioning in an … experimental findings, we observe a strong increase in cooperation when face-to-face communication is allowed before decision …
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Confessions after failures are socially desirable. However, confessions also bear the risk of punishment. In a laboratory experiment I examine how confessions work. I analyze whether the willingness to punish harmful failures depends on how the harmed party has learned about the outcome. The...
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We build a social structural model of fame, which departs from the atomistic view of prior literature where creativity … likely to become more famous. This effect was not, however, associated with the artist's creativity, which we measured using … than creativity, brokerage networks were associated with cosmopolitan identities—broker's alters were likely to differ more …
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Among residents of an informal housing area in Cairo, we examine how dictator giving varies by the social distance between subjects - friend versus stranger - and by the anonymity of the dictator. While giving to strangers is high under anonymity, we find - consistent with Leider et al. (2009) -...
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We employ a standard identification strategy from the peer effects literature to investigate the importance of network definitions in estimation of endogenous peer effects. We use detailed information on friends in the Adolescent Longitudinal Health Survey (Add Health) to construct two network...
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We find that firms are more likely to split their stock if their peer firms have recently done so. The effect is comparable to an increase of 40-50% in the share price. Splitting probability is also increasing in the announcement returns of peer splits. These results are consistent with social...
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