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A Dynamic Model of Belief-Dependent Conformity to Social Norms
Sontuoso, Alessandro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
.Bicchieri, The Grammar of Society. CambridgeUP [2006]), I develop a behavioral theory of norm conformity building on the Battigalli …-Dufwenberg “psychological” framework (P.Battigalli and M.Dufwenberg, Dynamic Psychological Games, J.Econ.Theory, 144:1-35 [2009]). …
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Fairness and Desert in Tournaments
Gill, David; Stone, Rebecca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We model the behavior of agents who care about receiving what they feel they deserve in a two-player rank-order tournament. Perceived entitlements are sensitive to how hard an agent has worked relative to her rival, and agents are loss averse around their meritocratically determined endogenous...
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Can intentions spoil the kindness of a gift? - An experimental study
Strassmair, Christina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Consider a situation where person A undertakes acostly action that benefits person B. This behavior seems altruistic. However, if A expects a reward in return from B, then A's action may be motivated by expected rewards rather than by pure altruism. The question we address in this experimental...
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Sorting with shame in the laboratory
Ong, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Trust is indispensable to fiduciary fields (e.g., credit rating), where experts exercise wide discretion on others behalf. Can the shame from scandal sort trustworthy people out of a fiduciary field? I tested for the possibility in a charitable contribution game where subjects could be...
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Can intentions spoil the kindness of a gift? - An experimental study
Strassmair, Christina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Consider a situation where person A undertakes a costly action that benefits person B. This behavior seems altruistic. However, if A expects a reward in return from B, then A's action may be motivated by the expected rewards rather than by pure altruism. The question we address in this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005121215
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Power, hierarchy and social preferences
Bosco, Luigi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
I ran an experiment in order to evaluate the relationship, if any, between power, or the search for power, and the degree of altruism. In particular I experimentally tested whether an organization structured in a strictly hierarchical way was able to reduce the degree of altruism of a group of...
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Oxytocin Increases Generosity in Humans
Zak, Paul J.; Stanton, Angela A.; Ahmadi, Sheila - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Human beings routinely help strangers at costs to themselves. Sometimes the help offered is generous offering more than the other expects. The proximate mechanisms supporting generosity are not well-understood, but several lines of research suggest a role for empathy. In this study, participants...
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Neural Substrates of Decision-Making in Economic Games
Stanton, Angela A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In economic experiments decisions often differ from game-theoretic predictions. Why are people generous in one-shot ultimatum games with strangers? Is there a benefit to generosity toward strangers? Research on the neural substrates of decisions suggests that some choices are hormone-dependent....
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Contracting under Incomplete Information and Social Preferences: An Experimental Study
Hoppe, Eva I.; Schmitz, Patrick W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
cornerstone of contract theory. We have conducted an experiment with 720 participants to explore whether the theoretical insights … are reflected by the behavior of subjects in the laboratory and to what extent deviations from standard theory can be … agency theory is indeed useful to qualitatively predict how variations in the degree of uncertainty affect subjects' behavior …
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Expressing Emotion and Fairness Crowding-out in an Ultimatum Game with Incomplete Information
Chen, Josie I; Kamei, Kenju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Recent experimental research has shown that when rating systems are available, buyers are more generous in accepting unfair offers made by sellers. It has also shown that sellers make fairer decisions when they are rated, while some studies show that they are little affected by the rating...
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