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Unraveling Fairness in Simple Games? The Role of Empathy and Theory of Mind

Artinger, Florian; Exadaktylos, Fillipos; Sääksvuori, … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Economists have been theorizing that other-regarding preferences influence decision making. Yet, what are the corresponding psychological mechanisms that inform these preferences in laboratory games? Empathy and Theory of Mind (ToM) are dispositions considered to be essential in social...

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Revealed Notions of Distributive Justice II: Experimental Evidence

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a "social planner" or a "veil of ignorance …" experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion … Agreement and Symmetry axioms proposed in BHH; we find that for 80% of participants the evidence is very strong. The experiment …

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Social preferences under uncertainty

Gaudeul, Alexia - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

's position vis-`a-vis others. Taking a bet can improve one's position relative to others or threaten it. We present an experiment …

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Revealed Notions of Distributive Justice I: Theory

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We provide a framework to decompose preferences into a notion of distributive justice and a selfishness part and to recover individual notions of distributive justice from data collected in appropriately designed experiments. "Dictator games" with varying transfer rates used in Andreoni and...

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Leading by example in intergroup competition: An experimental approach

Weisser, Johannes - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We investigate leading by example in a public goods game in scenarios with and without intergroup competition. Leading by example is implemented via a sequential decision protocol. We examine both one-shot and repeated interaction and make use of the strategy method to characterize followers'...

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Leading by Words in Privileged Groups

Weisser, Johannes - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Koukoumelis et al. (2010, 2012) have shown that one-way communication enhances contributions to public goods. We investigate the effectiveness of one-way communication, when the benefits from the public good are asymmetric and the sender of a message is the main beneficiary of cooperation. Our...

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Voluntary Payments, Privacy and Social Pressure on the Internet: A Natural Field Experiment

Regner, Tobias; Riener, Gerhard - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

' purchase decisions (whether to buy, and if so how much to pay) in a natural experiment at an online music store with PWYW … experiment suggests that even low levels of social pressure without face to face interaction on customers leads to a reduction of …

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Crossing the Point of No Return: A Public Goods Experiment

Fischbacher, Urs; Güth, Werner; Levati, M. Vittoria - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Participants in a public goods experiment receive private or common signals regarding the so-called "point of no return …

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