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Chapman, Jonathan; Dean, Mark; Ortoleva, Pietro; … - 2018

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Does Instrumental Reciprocity Crowd Out Prosocial Behavior?

Johnsen, Åshild - 2014

experimentally investigate the relationship between intrinsic and instrumental reciprocity by running a two-period repeated trust …, and that intrinsic reciprocity is rewarded. In fact, the total level of cooperation, in which trust is reciprocated, is …

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Self-serving bias in redistribution choices : accounting for beliefs and norms

Amasino, Dianna; Pace, Davide Domenico; Weele, Joël J. … - 2023

People with higher-incomes tend to support less redistribution than lower-income people. This has been attributed not only to self-interest, but also to psychological mechanisms including differing beliefs about the hard work or luck underlying inequality, differing fairness views, and differing...

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The Attack and Defense of Weakest-Link Networks

Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2010

This paper experimentally examines behavior in a two-player game of attack and defense of a weakest-link network of targets, in which the attacker's objective is to successfully attack at least one target and the defender's objective is diametrically opposed. We apply two benchmark contest...

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Cooperating, Fast and Slow : Testing the Social Heuristics Hypothesis

Stromland, Eirik - 2016

Are humans intuitively cooperative, or do we need to deliberate in order to be generous to others? The Social Heuristics Hypothesis (SHH) proposes that fast instinctive decision making promotes cooperation in social dilemmas. In this paper, we conduct a novel time-pressure experiment to shed...

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Nudging cooperation

Barron, Kai; Nurminen, Tuomas - 2018

This paper experimentally studies two simple interventions aimed at increasing public goods provision in settings in which accurate feedback about contributions is not available. The first intervention aims to exploit lying aversion by requiring subjects to send a non-verifiable ex post...

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Determinants of Trust : the Role of Personal Experiences

Schwerter, Frederik; Zimmermann, Florian - 2021

determine individuals’ inclination to trust others? We implement an experimental environment that allows us to manipulate prior …’s willingness to trust others. We contrast this situation with a control condition where we keep all aspects of the prior …, subjects’ willingness to trust is substantially higher relative to subjects who made negative social experiences. No such …

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Confidence and career choices : an experiment

Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - 2019 - Revised January 2019

Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's abilities causally map into actions is, however, sparse. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the causal effect of an increase in confidence about one's own ability on two central...

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Does having insurance change individuals self-confidence?

Guber, Raphael; Kocher, Martin; Winter, Joachim - 2018

Recent research in contract theory on the effects of behavioral biases implicitly assumes that they are stable, in the sense of not being affected by the contracts themselves. In this paper, we provide evidence that this is not necessarily the case. We show that in an insurance context, being...

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The influence of overconfidence and competition neglect on entry into competition

Schüssler, Katharina - 2018

I investigate whether two mechanisms leading to biased beliefs about success, overconfidence and competition neglect, influence decisions to enter competitive environments. I use a controlled laboratory setting that allows to elicit belief distributions related to absolute as well as relative...

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