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Gift exchange in the lab - it is not (only) how much you give ...

Englmaier, Florian; Leider, Steve - 2010

An important aspect in determining the effectiveness of gift exchange relations in labor markets is the ability of the worker to repay the gift to the employer. To test this hypothesis, we conduct a real effort laboratory experiment where we vary the wage and the effect of the worker's effort on...

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On individual cursedness : how personality shapes individuals' sensitivity to incur a winner's curse

Chlaß, Nadine - 2011

The winner's curse is a well-known deviation from rational self-interest in decision-making under asymmetric information. Yet, most prominent explanations for the curse have experimentally been ruled out so far. In particular, the curse did neither seem to emanate from a lack of experience with...

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Religious Identity, Trust, Reciprocity, and Prosociality : Theory and Evidence

Dhami, Sanjit; Wei, Mengxing; Mamidi, Pavan - 2022

, prosociality, and conditional reciprocity within a beliefs-based model. We provide a novel and rigorous theoretical model to derive … the relevant predictions, which are then tested in pre-registered lab-in-the-field experiments from villages in the Indian … beliefs-based mechanism for the effects of religious identity. More religious subjects expect greater prosociality/reciprocity …

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Individual and developmental differences in the relationship of preferences and theory of mind

Leipold, Kristina; Vetter, Nora C.; Dittrich, Marcus; … - 2012

Theory of mind and individual preferences are important determinants in social decision making. The current study examined in a large sample whether being a cooperative preference type is related with better theory of mind skills. Furthermore, by testing adolescents and adults, we examined the...

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Honestly, why are you donating money to charity? : an experimental study about self-awareness in status- seeking behavior

Kataria, Mitesh; Regner, Tobias - 2012

This study investigates experimentally whether people in retrospective are self-aware that they engage in status-seeking behavior. Subjects participated in a real-effort task where effort translated into a donation to a charity. Within-subjects we varied the visibility of their performance...

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Bribing the Self

Gneezy, Uri - 2020

biased while preserving their self-image as ethical and identify limits to advisors' ability to self-deceive. In experiments …

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Judgmental overconfidence and trading activity

Fellner, Gerlinde; Krügel, Sebastian - 2012

We investigate the theoretically proposed link between judgmental overconfidence and trading activity. In addition to applying classical measures of miscalibration, we introduce a measure to capture misperception of signal reliability, which is the relevant bias in the theoretical overconfidence...

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More than outcomes : a cognitive dissonance-based explanation of other-regarding behavior

Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2011

-regarding behavior ; self-image ; experiments ; cognitive dissonance ; social norms ; normative beliefs ; expectations …

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Self-control and crime revisited : disentangling the effect of self-control on risk taking and antisocial behavior

Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2017

Low self-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. The aim of our study is to provide causal evidence on the link between self-control and criminal behavior. We test whether individuals with lower self-control behave in a more antisocial manner and are less risk-averse and thus are,...

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Calamities, Common Interests, Shared Identity : What Shapes Altruism and Reciprocity?

Aksoy, Cevat; Cabrales, Antonio; Dolls, Mathias; … - 2021

), common economic interests, and a shared identity influences altruism, reciprocity and trust of EU citizens. We find that … priming the COVID-19 pandemic increases altruism and reciprocity towards compatriots, citizens of other EU countries, and non …-EU citizens. Priming common European values also boosts altruism and reciprocity but only towards compatriots and fellow Europeans …

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