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Identification of Altruism among Team Members: Empirical Evidence from the Classroom and Laboratory
Griffiths, Barry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
It is difficult to identify acts that are purely altruistic, and do not have some level of egoism or self-interest involved. By considering situations where team members seemingly have nothing to gain by the way they distribute points to others with regard to peer evaluation, and where their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011170136
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From the lab to the field: envelopes, dictators and manners
Stoop, Jan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Results are reported of the first natural field experiment on the dictator game, where subjects are unaware that they participate in an experiment. In contrast to predictions of the standard economic model, dictators show a large degree of pro-social behavior. This paper builds a bridge from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652044
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Verified Trust: Reciprocity, Altruism and Noise in Trust Games
Brülhart, Marius; Usunier, Jean-Claude - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Behavioural economists have come to recognize that reciprocity, the interaction of trust and trustworthiness, is a … principally due to observed decisions in experimental ‘trust games’. However, recent research has cast doubt on the explanatory … power of trust as a determinant of those decisions, suggesting that altruism may explain much of what ‘looks like’ trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005788946
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An Egalitarian Regime Breeds Generosity: The Effect of Endowment Allocation Procedures on Social Preferences
Riyanto, Yohanes Eko; Zhang, Jianlin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We experimentally investigate the effect of endowment allocation procedures on social preferences using a two-stage dictator game. In the first stage, participants who were randomly selected as allocators had to perform a task in order to earn money. Better performance on the task resulted in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529249
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Modeling Social Preferences: A Generalized Model of Inequity Aversion
Khan, Hayat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Taking note of the wide variety and growing list of models in the literature to explain patterns of behavior observed in laboratory experiments, this paper identifies two tests, the Variety Test (ability of a model to explain outcomes under variety or alternative scenarios) and the Psychological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005108450
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The Role of Equality and Efficiency in Social Preferences
Fehr, Ernst; Naef, Michael; Schmidt, Klaus M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Engelmann and Strobel (AER 2004) question the relevance of inequity aversion in simple dictator game experiments claiming that a combination of a preference for efficiency and a Rawlsian motive for helping the least well-off is more important than inequity aversion. We show that these results...
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Efficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions : A Choice Experiment
Elias, Julio - 2016
Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors. Preferences were heterogeneous, ranging from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979667
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Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments
Fischbacher, Urs; Gaechter, Simon - CESifo - 2008
We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit individuals’ cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them – as well as subjects’ elicited beliefs – to explain contributions to a public good played repeatedly....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765860
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Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments
Fischbacher, Urs; Gaechter, Simon - 2021
We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit individuals' cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them - as well as subjects' elicited beliefs - to explain contributions to a public good played repeatedly. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316430
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You Can’t Put Old Wine in New Bottles: The Effect of Newcomers on Coordination in Groups
McCarter, Matthew; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
group plays the game for the second part of the experiment. Our results show that the arrival of newcomers decreases trust … among group members and this decrease in trust negatively affects group performance. Knowing the performance history of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259957