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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011911886

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...

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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043209

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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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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Confucianism and Preferences: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China

Liu, Elaine M.; Meng, Juanjuan; Wang, Joseph Tao-yi - 2013

This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that Chinese subjects in our experiments became less accepting of Confucian values, such that they became significantly more risk loving, less loss averse, and more impatient after being...

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Homo reciprocans: survey evidence on prevalence, behavior and success

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006

Experimental evidence has convincingly shown the existence of reciprocal inclinations, i.e., a tendency for people to respond in-kind to hostile or kind actions. Little is known, however, about: (i) the prevalence of reciprocity in the population, (ii) individual determinants of reciprocity,...

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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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On the economics and biology of trust

Fehr, Ernst - 2008

In recent years, many social scientists have claimed that trust plays an important role in economic and social … transactions. Despite its proposed importance, the measurement and the definition of trust seem to be not fully settled, and the … identification of the exact role of trust in economic interactions has proven to be elusive. It is still not clear whether trust is …

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Individual and corporate social responsibility

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2009

Society's demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and distributive failures are becoming increasingly prominent. We first draw on recent developments in the psychology and economics of prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which...

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