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This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...
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Within a laboratory experiment we investigate a principal-agent game in which agents may, first, self-select into a … in work groups. The selection effect is larger than the motivation effect. …
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A real effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in …
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We show with a laboratory experiment that individuals adjust their moral principles to the situation and to their …, norms that appear abstract and universal take into account the bargaining power of the two sides. The strong side bends the … norm in its favor and the weak side agrees: Stated fairness is a compromise with power. Second, in most situations …
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How do individuals shape societies? How do societies shape individuals? This paper develops a framework for studying the connections between micro and macro phenomena. The framework builds on two ingredients widely used in social science − population and variable. Starting with the simplest...
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describing five sociobehavioral processes - comparison (including justice and self-esteem), status, power, identity, and … - comparison, status, and power - each associated with a distinctive mechanism, in particular, a distinctive rate of change of the …
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paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power … of societies – justice-nonmaterialistic, status, and power-nonmaterialistic. Results cover members’ gains, effects of own …
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five in the unification of three fundamental sociobehavioral forces - justice, status, and power - and the subsequent …
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power depend on the configuration of agreements and disagreements; (2) Independence of mind reduces wage inequality, and …
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This paper develops the mathematical foundations of comparison, referential, and relative (CRR) processes. The key ingredients are: (1) three kinds of terms; and (2) two kinds of relations. Combining the three terms - absolute amount, relative amount, and relative rank - with the two kinds of...
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