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Can Charitable Appeals Identify and Exploit Belief Heterogeneity?
Drouvelis, Michalis; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2021
Charitable fundraisers frequently announce giving by others, and research shows that this can increase donations. However, this mechanism may not put information about peers to the most efficient use if it is costly to inform individuals who are indifferent to peer actions or causes some...
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Strong, Bold, and Kind: Self-Control and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian … - 2013
predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels …
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Teams Punish Less
Auerswald, Heike; Schmidt, Carsten; Thum, Marcel; … - 2013
punishment option and compare it to the behavior of individuals in a laboratory experiment. We also consider different team …
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Social Framing Effects in Leadership: Preferences or Beliefs?
Cartwright, Edward; Drouvelis, Michalis - 2020
We experimentally study the impact of framing effects in a repeated sequential social dilemma game. Our between-subjects design consists of two group level ("Wall Street" vs. "Community") and two individual level ("First (Second) Movers" vs. "Leaders (Followers)") frames. We find that average...
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Tipping versus Cooperating to Supply a Public Good
Barrett, Scott; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2015
In some important multi-player situations, such as efforts to supply a global public good, players can choose the game they want to play. In this paper we conduct an experimental test of the decision to choose between a tipping game, in which every player wants to contribute to the public good...
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Social Ties in a Public Good Experiment
van Dijk, Frans; Sonnemans, Joep; van Winden, Frans - 2000
The formation of social ties is examined in an experimental study of voluntary public good provision. The experimental design consists of three parts. In the first part the value orientation (attitude to a generalized other) is measured. In the second part couples play a multi-period public good...
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Bargaining With Charitable Promises: True Preferences and Strategic Behavior
Lange, Andreas; Schwirplies, Claudia - 2021
We report experimental findings on the role of charitable promises in bargaining settings. We vary the enforceability of such promises within variants of ultimatum games where the proposer suggest a split between himself, the responder and a char-itable donation. By reneging on initial pledges,...
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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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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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