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It's not a lie if you believe it : on norms, lying, and self-serving belief distortion

Bicchieri, Cristina; Dimant, Eugen; Sonderegger, Silvia - 2019

This paper focuses on belief distortion in the context of lying decisions. We employ a twostage variant of the "dice under the cup" paradigm, in which subjects' beliefs are elicited in stage 1 before performing the dice task in stage 2. In stage 1, we elicit the subjects' beliefs about (i)...

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Vendettas

Bolle, Friedel; Tan, Jonathan H. W.; Zizzo, Daniel John - 2010

competitive promotion, by engaging in retaliatory aggressive behavior. We present a benchmark experiment where two players have an …

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Signaling about norms : socialization under strategic uncertainty

Adriani, Fabrizio; Sonderegger, Silvia - 2013

We consider a society with informed individuals (adults) and naive individuals (children). Adults are altruistic towards their own children and possess information that allows to better predict the behavior of other adults. Children benefit from adopting behaviors that conform to the social norm...

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Equal before the (expressive power of) law?

Görges, Luise; Lane, Tom; Nosenzo, Daniele; … - 2023

. We then use an incentivized vignette experiment to test whether these differences are empirically relevant. Results from …

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Understanding perpetual R&D races

Breitmoser, Yves (contributor); … - 2008

; innovation ; dynamics ; experiment …

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Does increasing inequality threaten social stability? : evidence from the lab

Barr, Abigail; Hochleitner, Anna; Sonderegger, Silvia - 2023

the causal relationship running from inequality to instability. Specifically, we conduct a laboratory experiment. In the … experiment, two groups are interacting with each other repeatedly and have an incentive to cooperate even though cooperation … comes at the cost of inter-group inequality. In the second half of the experiment, we vary the extent of the inequality …

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Does increasing inequality threaten social stability? : evidence from the lab

Barr, Abigail; Hochleitner, Anna; Sonderegger, Silvia - 2024 - [Revised version of 2023-13]

causal relationship running from inequality to social instability. We run a laboratory experiment in which two groups …

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A self-funding reward mechanism for tax compliance

Fatas, Enrique; Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin; … - 2015

We compare in a laboratory experiment two audit-based tax compliance mechanisms that collect fines from those found non …

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A theory of esteem based peer pressure

Adriani, Fabrizio; Sonderegger, Silvia - 2018

Signaling models of esteem have implications for peer pressure. Using Bénabou's and Tirole's "honor-stigma" model, we analyze how the pressure to engage in costly signaling changes with the distribution of peers' attributes. In particular, we provide novel comparative statics on the effects of...

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Adriani, Fabrizio; Sonderegger, Silvia - 2014

We study Nature's trade-off when endowing people with the cognitive ability to distinguish between different time periods or different prizes. Our key premise is that cognitive ability is a scarce resource, to be deployed only where and when it really matters. We show that this simple insight...

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