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This chapter presents some insights from basic behavioural research on the role of human pro-social motivation to maintain social order. I argue that social order can be conceptualised as a public good game. Past attempts to explain social order typically relied on the assumption of selfish and...
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deplete cognitive resources and willpower and thus reduce individuals' ability to exert self-control. In a lab experiment we …
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Some affirmative action policies establish that a set of disadvantaged competitors has access to an extra prize. We analyse the effects of creating an extra prize by reducing the prize in the main competition. Contestants differ in ability and agents with relatively low ability belong to a...
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disadvantageous wage discrimination leads to lower efforts while advantageous wage discrimination does not increase efforts on average … comparison effects. We also find that reactions to wage discrimination can be attributed to the underlying intentions of … discrimination rather than to payoff consequences. …
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disadvantageous wage discrimination leads to lower efforts while advantageous wage discrimination does not increase efforts on average … comparison effects. We also find that reactions to wage discrimination can be attributed to the underlying intentions of … discrimination rather than to payoff consequences. …
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This article surveys the experimental economics approach to the study of religion. The field has a place in the context … of the scientific study of religion generally and the social psychology of religion in particular, but employs distinct … by economists such as incentive compatibility are particularly appropriate for studying the effect of religion on …
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This article surveys the experimental economics approach to the study of religion. The field has a place in the context … of the scientific study of religion generally and the social psychology of religion in particular, but employs distinct … by economists such as incentive compatibility are particularly appropriate for studying the effect of religion on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009150793
Some researchers have argued that anchoring in economic valuations casts doubt on the assumption of consistent and stable preferences. We present new evidence that questions the robustness of certain anchoring results. We then present a theoretical framework that provides insights into why we...
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We report an experiment examining risk taking and information aggregation in groups. Group members come to the table …
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report a laboratory experiment based on these extended games. We find that behavior is similar in the two extended games …
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