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For our experiment on corruption, we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs … failed to explain their choices between corrupt and non-corrupt behavior. Instead, beliefs appeared to be a better predictor …
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' 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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theory on moral emotions to belief-dependant models in economics. We find that - in addition to second-order beliefs and …
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, we test the relevance of their input variables (second-order beliefs and general dispositions for guilt/reciprocity). The … data confirm the predictions of belief-dependant models. Both second-order beliefs and a participant's sensitivity to guilt …/reciprocity are relevant for the decisions taken. Second-order beliefs appear to have an inverse U-shaped effect on the extent of kind …
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Participants in a public goods experiment receive private or common signals regarding the so-called "point of no return …
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varied the visibility of their performance (private/public feedback). On average subjects exerted more effort in the public … treatment. After the real effort task subjects were asked to state their retrospective beliefs about their performance in public … given feedback about their performance in private, and about the performance of other subjects in public given the average …
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choices and beliefs about others' choices, and how reasoning and choices relate to their measured cognitive and personality …
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function is studied experimentally. The experiment allows us to study the main parameters of the model, suggesting that we …
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for cooperation, this article proposes a novel theory in which the emergence of norms can be understood as a bargaining … process in which normative conflicts explain the finally emerging norm. The theory is tested with a dynamical experiment on … measured by the number of rejected offers in a recursive bargaining game. The emerging normative system is analyzed by feedback …
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efficiency gains, the presence of risk and uncertainty about the public good's value is not detrimental to cooperation. This …
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