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Human pro-social motivation and the maintenance of social order

Gächter, Simon - 2014

This chapter presents some insights from basic behavioural research on the role of human pro-social motivation to … motivation can sustain cooperation if enough people cooperate but can jeopardise social order if many others follow selfish …

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Peer effects and social preferences in voluntary cooperation

Thöni, Christian; Gächter, Simon - 2014 - This version: February 2014

too. In a gift-exchange experiment with independent payoffs between two agents we find causal evidence for peer effects …

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Peer effects and social preferences in voluntary cooperation

Thöni, Christian; Gächter, Simon - 2011

-person gift-exchange experiment we find causal evidence for peer effects in voluntary cooperation: agents' efforts are positively …

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Becoming friends or foes? : how competitive environments shape social preferences

Dimant, Eugen; Hyndman, Kyle - 2019 - This version: December 30, 2019

We study the interaction between competition and social proximity on altruism, trust, and reciprocity. We decompose the …

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Self-selection and variations in the laboratory measurement of other-regarding preferences across subject pools : evidence from one college student and two adult samples

Anderson, Jon; Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; … - 2012 - Revised version of 2010-22

We measure the other-regarding behavior in samples from three related populations in the upper Midwest of the United States: college students, non-student adults from the community surrounding the college, and adult trainee truckers in a residential training program. The use of typical...

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Tradeoffs between self-interest and other-regarding preferences cause willpower depletion

Fromell, Hanna; Nosenzo, Daniele; Owens, Trudy - 2014

deplete cognitive resources and willpower and thus reduce individuals' ability to exert self-control. In a lab experiment we …

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Social preferences, beliefs and the dynamics of free riding in public good experiments

Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2009

One lingering puzzle is why voluntary contributions to public goods decline over time in experimental and real-world settings. We show that the decline of cooperation is driven by individual preferences for imperfect conditional cooperation. Many people's desire to contribute less than others,...

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Historical self-governance and norms of cooperation

Rustagi, Devesh - 2022

effect persist, and if so, why? I investigate these questions using a natural experiment in Switzerland. In the middle … experiment, World Values Survey, and Swiss Household Panel consistently shows that individuals from historically self …

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Conditional punishment : descriptive social norms drive negative reciprocity

Li, Xueheng; Molleman, Lucas; Dolder, Dennie van - 2020 - This version: 6 April 2020

Is punishment of free riders driven by descriptive social norms of cooperation and punishment? We conduct experiments in which participants interact in a one-shot social dilemma with punishment. We study how punishment of free riders is influenced by behavior among members of a payoff-irrelevant...

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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 penalty and excuse their selfish behavior. We address the question of punishment legitimacy in our experiment by …

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