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What drives motivated agents? : the "right" mission or sharing it with the principal
Koppel, Hannes; Regner, Tobias - 2015
Motivated agents are characterized by increasing their effort if their work generates not only a monetary return for them but also a benefit for a mission they support. While their motivation may stem from working for their preferred (i.e., the `right') mission, it may also be the principal's...
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Self-Confidence and Strategic Behavior
Charness, Gary; Rustichini, Aldo; van de Ven, Jeroen - 2013
We test experimentally an explanation of over and under confidence as motivated by (perhaps unconscious) strategic concerns, and find compelling evidence supporting this hypothesis in the behavior of participants who send and respond to others' statements of confidence about how well they have...
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The Roots of Cooperation
Bašic, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021
reciprocity, and third-party punishment – emerges earliest as a means to increase cooperation in a repeated prisoner’s dilemma … reciprocate others’ behavior, yet direct and indirect reciprocity do not increase overall cooperation rates. We also examine the …
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Does Instrumental Reciprocity Crowd out Prosocial Behavior?
Johnsen, Åshild A.; Kvaløy, Ola - 2014
experimentally investigate the relationship between intrinsic and instrumental reciprocity by running a two-period repeated trust … do not know and hence the second period comes as a surprise. We find that subjects anticipate instrumental reciprocity …, and that intrinsic reciprocity is rewarded. In fact, the total level of cooperation, in which trust is reciprocated, is …
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The Roots of Cooperation
Basic, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021
and indirect reciprocity as well as third-party punishment – emerges earliest as an effective means to increase … of defectors is applied. Children also engage in reciprocating others, showing that reciprocity strategies are already … prevalent at a very young age. However, direct and indirect reciprocity treatments do not increase overall cooperation rates, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599232
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Reciprocity and emotions when reciprocators know each other
Reuben, Ernesto; van Winden, Frans - 2006
This is an experimental study of a three-player power-to-take game where a take authority is matched with two responders. The game consists of two stages. In the first stage, the take authority decides how much of the endowment of each responder that is left after the second stage will be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261421
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Relative Performance Feedback to Teams
Gjedrem, William Gilje; Kvaløy, Ola - 2018
Between and within firms, work teams compete against each other and receive feedback on how well their team is performing relative to their benchmarks. In this paper we investigate experimentally how teams respond to relative performance feedback (RPF) at team level. We find that when subjects...
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Strong, Bold, and Kind: Self-Control and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian … - 2013
We develop a model that relates self-control and conflict identification to cooperation patterns in social dilemmas. As predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels of cooperation. This means that there is...
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The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Children's Intertemporal Choices
Sutter, Matthias; Angerer, Silvia; Rützler, Daniela; … - 2015
According to Chen’s (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We...
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Giving in the Face of Risk
Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno; Tran, Giang - 2016
find that individuals’ risk preferences are predictive for giving in both experiments. Increased risk exposure of …
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