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A central question in the study of altruism has been whether there is a systematic gender difference in giving behavior …
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We run a public good experiment in the field and in the lab with (partly) the same subjects. The field experiment is a … true natural field experiment as subjects do not know that they are exposed to an experimental variation. We can show that … subjects' behavior in the classic lab public good experiment correlates with their behavior in the structurally comparable …
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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 experimental subjects. The subjects were divided into groups and …
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Although there is an increasing interest in examining the relationship between cognitive ability and economic behavior, less is known about the relationship between cognitive ability and social preferences. We investigate the relationship between strongly incentivized measures of intelligence...
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guarantee reciprocity, we see that there is still significant evidence of altruism, which we then confirm using laboratory …
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Although there is an increasing interest in examining the relationship between cognitive ability and economic behavior, less is known about the relationship between cognitive ability and social preferences. We investigate the relationship between consequential measures of cognitive ability and...
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participate in an experiment. In contrast to predictions of the standard economic model, dictators show a large degree of pro-social …Results are reported of the first natural field experiment on the dictator game, where subjects are unaware that they … pro-social behavior, whether they are students or not, participate in a laboratory or not, or are aware that they …
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experiment, however, indicates that a tertiary personality variable, sometimes called psychological well-being, is the primary …
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altruism. The question we address in this experimental study is how B reacts to the intentions of A. We vary the probability …
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We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...
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