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What can the Big Five Personality Factors contribute to explain Small-Scale Economic Behavior?
Muller, Julia; Schwieren, Christiane - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
favor and against this assumption and test in our own experiment, whether and which personality factors are useful in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256055
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Strategies and Evolution in the Minority Game: A Multi- Round Strategy Experiment
Linde, Jona; Sonnemans, Joep; Tuinstra, Jan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
-round strategy method experiment to directly elicit people's strategies. Between rounds participants can adjust their strategy and … experiment are subjected to an evolutionary competition. The strategies people use are very heterogeneous although aggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256405
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Reciprocity and Emotions: Arousal, Self-Reports, and Expectations
Ben-Shakhar, Gershon; Bornstein, Gary; Hopfensitz, Astrid; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
Although reciprocity is a key concept in the social sciences, it is still unclear why people engage in costly reciprocation. In this study, physiological and self-report measures were employed to investigate the role of emotions, using the Power-to-Take Game. In this 2-person game, player 1 can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256599
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The Behavioral Impact of Emotions in a Power to take Game: An Experimental Study
Bosman, Ronald; Winden, Frans A.A.M. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999
-making experiment preceding the take game. The gameconsists of two stages. In the first stage, the take authority decides howmuch income …-69, as: 'Emotional Hazard in a Power-to-Take Experiment'. …
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Emotions and Economic Shocks in a First-Price Auction
Bosman, Ronald; Riedl, Arno - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
We investigate experimentally whether emotions affect bidding behavior in a firstprice auction. To induce emotions, we confront subjects after a first auction series with apositive or negative random economic shock. We then explore the relation between emotions andbidding behavior in a second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255774
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Power and the Privilege of Clarity: An Analysis of Bargaining Power and Information Transmission
Ruiz, Adrian de Groot; Offerman, Theo; Onderstal, Sander - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
maximum amount of information that can be transmitted in equilibrium is increasing in the bargaining power of the Sender … predict that information transmission is increasing in the Sender's relative bargaining power. This prediction is corroborated … by an experiment. Finally, we show how partial information transmission can lead to communication failure, and show how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256036
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Group Polarization in the Team Dictator Game reconsidered
Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Kocher, Martin G.; Sutter, Matthias - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
dictator game. In our experiment teams are more selfish than individuals, and the most selfish team member has the strongest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256730
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The Trust Game behind the Veil of Ignorance: A Note on Gender Differences
Vyrastekova, Jana; Onderstal, Sander - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
We analyze gender differences in the trust game in a "behind the veil of ignorance" design. This method yields strategies that are consistent with actions observed in the classical trust game experiments. We observe that, on average, men and women do not differ in "trust", and that women are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257270
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Does Stake Size matter for Cooperation and Punishment?
Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Visser, Martine - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
The effects of stake size on cooperation and punishment are investigated using a public goods experiment. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257415
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Self-Confidence and Strategic Deterrence
Charness, Gary; Rustichini, Aldo; Ven, Jeroen van de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
the information does not involve own relative ability, but far more common when it does, suggesting self-esteem issues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255502