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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...

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Spite vs. risk: explaining overbidding

Kirchkamp, Oliver; Mill, Wladislaw - 2019

In this paper we use an experiment to compare a theory of risk aversion and a theory of spite as an explanation for overbidding in auctions. As a workhorse we use the second-price all-pay and the first-price winner-pay auction. Both risk and spite can be used to rationalize deviations from risk...

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Conditional Cooperation and the Effect of Punishment

Kirchkamp, Oliver; Mill, Wladislaw - 2018

We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject can be punished and 2) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject has the power to punish others. In particular, we disentangle the decision to be a...

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Investment, resolution of risk, and the role of affect

van Winden, Frans; Krawczyk, Michal; Hopfensitz, Astrid - 2010

This experimental study is concerned with the impact of the timing of the resolution of risk on people's willingness to take risks, with a special focus on the role of affect. While the importance of anticipatory emotions has so far been only inferred from decisions regarding hypothetical choice...

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The Roots of Cooperation

Bašic, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021

We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we examine pre-registered hypotheses about which of three fundamental pillars of human cooperation – direct and indirect reciprocity, and third-party punishment – emerges earliest...

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Too Lucky to be True - Fairness Views under the Shadow of Cheating

Bortolotti, Stefania; Soraperra, Ivan; Sutter, Matthias; … - 2017

inequality, such as differences in effort, luck, or opportunities. We study how fairness views and the extent of redistribution … outcome. Although third parties cannot verify cheating, we find that the mere suspicion of cheating changes fairness views of ….e., participants who never redistribute. Without cheating opportunities, libertarian fairness views dominate, while egalitarian views …

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How do incentives affect creativity?

Eckartz, Katharina; Kirchkamp, Oliver; Schunk, Daniel - 2012

We compare performance in a word based creativity task under three incentive schemes: a flat fee, a linear payment and a tournament. Furthermore, we also compare performance under two control tasks (Raven's advanced progressive matrices or a number-adding task) with the same treatments. In all...

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The Roots of Cooperation

Basic, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021

Understanding the roots of human cooperation among strangers is of great importance for solving pressing social dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we examine...

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