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paper, we conduct laboratory experiments in which we explore the motivations for and the effects of group identity. We find …
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-world organizations we employ a controlled experiment. Our data provide clear evidence that agents’ behavior is not only guided by …
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theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators’ punishment is almost exclusively targeted … between different fairness principles. Fairness theories that are based on the assumption that players compare their own … the defectors. Fairness theories assuming that players aim to minimize payoff inequalities cannot explain the fact that …
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We study the intrapersonal relationship between trust and reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. Reciprocal subjects …
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To investigate the external validity of Ultimatum and Dictator game behavior we conduct experiments in field settings …
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We develop a new experiment to study the emergence of welfare-reducing bilateral alliances within larger groups, and … of our experiments, a player (the 'allocator') nominates one of three others as a co-worker (the 'receiver'), which deter …
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report on the results of an experiment designed to evaluate two distinct explanations for this phenomenon, indignation and …
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altruism. Instead, we posit that social reciprocity is a triggered normative response. Our experiment confirms the existence of …
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behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm …
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Trust is a crucial component of social capital. We use an experimental moonlighting game with a representative sample of the U.S. population, oversampling immigrants, to study trust, positive, and negative reciprocity between first-generation immigrants and native-born Americans as a measure of...
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