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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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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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Trust, trustworthiness and the consensus effect : an evolutionary approach

Adriani, Fabrizio; Sonderegger, Silvia - 2013

People often form expectations about others using the lens of their own attitudes (the so-called consensus effect). We study the implications of this for trust and trustworthiness. Trustworthy individuals are more \optimistic" than opportunists and are accordingly less afraid to engage in...

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Adriani, Fabrizio; Sonderegger, Silvia - 2019

We use a simple cost-benefit analysis to derive optimal similarity judgments - addressing the question: when should we expect a decision maker to distinguish between different time periods or different prizes? Our key premise is that cognitive resources are costly and are to be deployed only...

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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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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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