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Altruism and fairness in experimental decisions
Kohler, Stefan - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 80 (2011) 1, pp. 101-109
Experimental evidence from dictator games and simple choice situations indicates concerns for fairness and social welfare in human decision making. At the same time, models of inequality averse agents fail to explain the experimental data of individuals who reduce their payoff below a fair split...
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Are dictators averse to inequality?
Korenok, Oleg; Millner, Edward L.; Razzolini, Laura - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 82 (2012) 2, pp. 543-547
We present the results of an experiment designed to identify more clearly the motivation underlying dictators’ behavior. In the typical dictator game, recipients are given no endowment. We give an endowment to the recipient as well as the dictator. This new dimension allows us to test directly...
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Revealed distributional preferences: Individuals vs. teams
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin; … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 108 (2014) C, pp. 319-330
We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...
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Betrayal aversion versus principled trustfulness—How to explain risk avoidance and risky choices in trust games
Fetchenhauer, Detlef; Dunning, David - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 2, pp. 534-541
Are decisions in a trust game more or less sensitive to changes in risk than decisions in a purely financial, non …-social decision-making task? Participants in a binary trust game (they could either keep $5 for sure or give it to a trustee with the … 80 percent and then were asked to decide whether to trust that other person. In addition, participants made a decision in …
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Signs and (counter)signals of trustworthiness
Gambetta, Diego; Székely, Áron - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 106 (2014) C, pp. 281-297
trust game. Subjects play a dictator game unaware that later they will play a trust game and that their level of generosity … in the dictator game will be revealed to trusters, with some inaccuracy, before trusters decide whether to trust or not …
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Racial differences in inequality aversion: Evidence from real world respondents in the ultimatum game
Griffin, John; Nickerson, David; Wozniak, Abigail - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84 (2012) 2, pp. 600-617
The distinct historical and cultural experiences of American blacks and whites may influence whether members of these groups perceive a particular exchange as fair. We investigate racial differences in fairness standards using preferences for equal treatment in the ultimatum game. We focus on...
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Would you mind if I get more? An experimental study of the envy game
Casal, Sandro; Güth, Werner; Jia, Mofei; Ploner, Matteo - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84 (2012) 3, pp. 857-865
Envy is often the cause of mutually harmful outcomes. We experimentally study the impact of envy in a bargaining setting in which there is no conflict in material interests: a proposer, holding the role of residual claimant, chooses the size of the pie to be shared with a responder, whose share...
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Strategic ignorance in ultimatum bargaining
Conrads, Julian; Irlenbusch, Bernd - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 92 (2013) C, pp. 104-115
In his classic article “An Essay on Bargaining” Schelling (1956) argues that ignorance might actually be strength rather than weakness. We test and confirm Schelling's conjecture in a simple take-it-or-leave-it bargaining experiment where the proposer can choose between two possible offers....
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Cultural integration: Experimental evidence of convergence in immigrants’ preferences
Cameron, Lisa; Erkal, Nisvan; Gangadharan, Lata; Zhang, … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 111 (2015) C, pp. 38-58
receives in the West has a strong negative impact on altruism, trust towards individuals of Chinese ethnicity, and … trustworthiness, while it has a significant and positive impact on trust towards Australians. For risk and competitive preferences …
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Scale manipulation in dictator games
Ockenfels, Axel; Werner, Peter - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 97 (2014) C, pp. 138-142
We let subjects estimate behavior and expectations of others before they play dictator games, and only vary the quantitative scales for their estimates. Our data show that this manipulation may significantly affect economic decisions: dictators who are presented a scale with a higher midpoint...
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