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too. In a gift-exchange experiment with independent payoffs between two agents we find causal evidence for peer effects …
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This chapter presents some insights from basic behavioural research on the role of human pro-social motivation to maintain social order. I argue that social order can be conceptualised as a public good game. Past attempts to explain social order typically relied on the assumption of selfish and...
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observed to act in isolation from each other. In this paper we use a large-scale dictator game experiment (N = 850) to show …
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a penalty and excuse their selfish behavior. We address the question of punishment legitimacy in our experiment by …
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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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We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment with 567 children, aged four to eleven, in which we investigate the effect of …
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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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Political identity has become the strongest social divide within Western societies. This paper employs experiments to measure discrimination along multiple dimensions of social identity, and replicates previous findings showing the strongest discrimination against out-groups occurs in the...
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Using a laboratory experiment, we study the evolution of economic networks in the context of fragmented social identity …
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This paper uses a novel experimental design to study the contagion of pro- and antisocial behavior and the role of social proximity among peers. Across systematic variations thereof, we find that anti-social behavior is generally more contagious than pro-social behavior. Surprisingly, we also...
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