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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation

Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...

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On the Nature, Modeling, and Neural Bases of Social Ties

Winden, Frans van; Stallen, Mirre; Ridderinkhof, K. Richard - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

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Control without Deception

Bardsley, Nicholas - Tinbergen Institute - 2000

in a public good experiment prompted by Weimann's (1994) result, from a deceptive design, that subjects are more … sensitive to free-riding than cooperation on the part of others. The experiment provides similar results to Weimann's, in that … start. The results suggest pronounced elements of overconfidence, egoism and (biased) reciprocity in behaviour, which may …

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Negative Reciprocity and the Interaction of Emotions and Fairness Norms

Reuben, Ernesto; Winden, Frans van - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

This experimental study investigates how behavior changes after punishment for an unkind action. It also studies how fairness perceptions affect the reaction to punishment and whether this effect is consistent across repeated play and role experiences. A repeated version of the power-to-take...

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Fairness and Reciprocity in the Hawk-Dove Game

Neugebauer, Tibor; Poulsen, Anders; Schram, Arthur J.H.C. - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

We study fairness and reciprocity in a Hawk-Dove game. This alllows us to test various models in one framework. We …

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Conditional Cooperation and Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods

Keser, Claudia; Winden, Frans A.A.M. van - Tinbergen Institute - 2000

We compare a partners condition where the same small group of subjects plays a repeated public good game to a strangers condition where subjects play this game in changing group formations. Subjects in the partners condition contribute from the first period on significantly more to the public...

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Social Ties in a Public Good Experiment

Dijk, Frans van; Sonnemans, Joep; Winden, Frans van - Tinbergen Institute - 1996

The formation of social ties is examined in an experimental study of voluntary public good provision. The experiment …

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On The Relevance Of Irrelevant Information

Parakhonyak, Alexei - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

This paper analyses the role of information in the search process. I

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Kahneman and Tversky and the Origin of Behavioral Economics

Heukelom, Floris - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

Kahneman and Tversky and their behavioral economics stand in a long tradition of applying mathematics to human behavior. In the seventeenth century, attempts to describe rational behavior in mathematical terms run into problems with the formulation of the St. Petersburg paradox. Bernoulli’s...

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The Origin of Prospect Theory, or Testing the Intuitive Statistician

Heukelom, Floris - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

The origin of prospect theory is the desire to test the intuitive statistician in the real world. The development of this theory by the cognitive psychologists Kahneman and Tversky can be traced to the formers work in cognitive psychophysics, in which deviations from average behavior are termed...

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