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Chapman, Jonathan; Dean, Mark; Ortoleva, Pietro; … - 2018
We study the pattern of correlations across a large number of behavioral regularities, with the goal of creating an empirical basis for more comprehensive theories of decision-making. We elicit 21 behaviors using an incentivized survey on a representative sample (n = 1;000) of the U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011897575
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Religious identity, trust, reciprocity, and prosociality : theory and evidence
Dhami, Sanjit S.; Wei, Mengxing; Mamidi, Pavan - 2022
We use the trust and the dictator games to explore the effects of religious identity on trust, trustworthiness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472415
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Social capital and crises with an application to Iceland
Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2015
Economic growth is propelled in part by the accumulation of different kinds of capital, including social capital in its several guises. This paper considers the interplay between financial crises and various aspects of social capital which, if it is allowed to depreciate, can undermine economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288794
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How trust in social dilemmas evolves with age
Kocher, Martin - 2015
While trust and trustworthiness provide a fundamental foundation for human relationships, little is known about how … the World Values Survey to address a potential connection between trust and age. In this chapter, we will mainly focus on … trusting and trustworthy behavior elicited with the use of the seminal trust game (Berg et al., 1995) and with games …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298524
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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298544
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The experience is (not) everything : sequential outcomes and social decision-making
Buckenmaier, Johannes; Dimant, Eugen - 2021
altruism, trust, trustworthiness, and cooperation. For non-social experiences, we find no effect on subsequent behavior in any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520860
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Behavioural responses to unfair institutions : experimental evidence on rule compliance, norm polarisation, and trust
Columbus, Simon; Feld, Lars P.; Kasper, Matthias; … - 2023
and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce … compared to no enforcement. We also find that social heterogeneity lowers average trust and induces ingroup favouritism in … trust. Finally, we find consistent evidence of peer effects: higher levels of peer compliance raise future compliance and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321962
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A theory of reciprocity
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001
This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by the intention underlying this action. The theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398368
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Psychological foundations of incentives
Fehr, Ernst; Falk, Armin - 2002
During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organisations. Yet, they constrained their attention to a very narrow and empirically questionable view of human motivation. The purpose of this paper is to show that this narrow view of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409795
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Facing yourself : a note on self-image
Falk, Armin - 2017
Numerous signaling models in economics assume image concerns. These take two forms, as relating either to social image or self-image. While empirical work has identified the behavioral importance of the former, little is known about the role of self-image concerns. We exogenously vary self-image...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011645970