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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion

Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015

We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....

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Deviant or wrong? : the effects of norm information on the efficacy of punishment

Bicchieri, Cristina; Dimant, Eugen; Xiao, Erte - 2017 - This version: November 13, 2017

A stream of research examining the effect of punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead to suboptimal social outcomes. In such studies, the enforcement of a behavioral rule to cooperate originates from a single party. This feature may raise concern about the...

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Belief formation in a signalling game without common prior : an experiment

Possajennikov, Alexandre - 2012

Using belief elicitation, the paper investigates the formation and the evolution of beliefs in a signalling game in … which a common prior on Sender's type is not induced. Beliefs are elicited about the type of the Sender and about the … strategies of the players. The experimental subjects often start with diffuse uniform beliefs and update them in view of …

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Social norms and preferences for generosity are domain dependent

Erkut, Hande - 2018

Experimental research on generosity has focused predominantly on behavior in the monetary domain, although many real life decisions take place in the non-monetary domain. Investigating generosity preferences in the non-monetary domain is important to understand a large class of situations...

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Welfare stigma in the lab : evidence of social signaling

Friedrichsen, Jana; König, Tobias; Schmacker, Renke - 2016

A puzzle of the modern welfare state is that a large fraction of social benefits is not taken up. Using a laboratory experiment, we present evidence that stigmatization through public exposure causally reduces the take-up of a redistributive transfer by 30 percentage points. We build a...

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Selfless ignorance : too good to be true

Moradi, Homayoon - 2018

We use a range of dictator game experiments to investigate whether people avoid information altruistically. After …

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Teams promise but do not deliver

Nielsen, Kirby; Bhattacharya, Puja; Kagel, John H.; … - 2019

Individuals and two-person teams play a hidden - action trust game with pre - play communication. We replicate previous results for individuals that non-binding promises increase cooperation rates. But this does not extend to teams. Wh ile teams make non-binding promises to cooperate at the same...

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The importance of peers for compliance with norms of fair sharing

Gächter, Simon; Gerhards, Leonie; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2015

A burgeoning literature in economics has started examining the role of social norms in explaining economic behavior. Surprisingly, the vast majority of this literature has studied social norms in asocial decision settings, where individuals are observed to act in isolation from each other. In...

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Reputational concerns in repeated rent-seeking contests

Fallucchi, Francesco; Renner, Elke - 2016

We experimentally investigate how reputational concerns affect behavior in repeated Tullock contests by comparing expenditures of participants interacting in fixed groups with the expenditures of participants interacting with randomly changing opponents. When participants receive full...

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Voluntary industry standards : an experimental investigation of a Greek gift

Schmid, Julia - 2015

such, might be unkind. In many experiments it was shown that unkind actions which decrease the other's payoff are punished …

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