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Voting on a sharing norm in a dictator game

Vanberg, Christoph - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007

I conduct an experiment to assess whether majority voting on a nonbindingsharing norm affects subsequent behavior in a dictator game. Ina baseline treatment, subjects play a one shot dictator game. In a votingtreatment, subjects are first placed behind a ‘veil of ignorance’ and vote onthe...

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Revealed Notions of Distributive Justice II: Experimental Evidence

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a "social planner" or a "veil of ignorance" experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion paper by Becker, Häger, and Heufer (BHH,...

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Hidden costs of control: Three repetitions and an extension

Ploner, Matteo; Schmelz, Katrin; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - 2010

those of the original study. We mainly observe hidden costs of control of low magnitude which lead to low-trust principal …

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Social identity and trust - An experimental investigation

Güth, Werner; Levati, M. Vittoria; Ploner, Matteo - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2006

We experimentally examine how group identity affects trust behaviorin an investment game. In one treatment, group …) to minimal group identityto two-dimensional group identity, we find no significant differencesin trust decisions. However …, trust is significantly and positively correlatedwith contribution decisions, suggesting that "social" trust isbehaviorally …

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Making the World a better Place: Experimental evidencefrom the generosity Game

Güth, Werner; Levati, Maria Vittoria; Ploner, Matteo - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2009

We study ultimatum and dictator experiments where the first moverchooses the amount of money to be distributed between the playerswithin a given interval, knowing that her own share is fixed. Thus, thefirst mover is faced with scarcity, but not with the typical trade-off betweenher own and the...

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Being of two minds: an ultimatum experimentinvestigating affective processes

Cappelletti, Dominique; Güth, Werner; Ploner, Matteo - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2008

We experimentally investigate how affective processes influence proposers’and responders’ behaviour in the Ultimatum Game. Using a dualsystemapproach, we tax cognitive resources through time pressure andcognitive load to enhance the influence of affective processes on behaviour.We find that...

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Moral Distance and Moral Motivations in Dictator Games

Aguiar, Fernando; Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Miller, Luis M. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007

We perform an experimenta linvestigation using a dictator game inwhich individuals must make a moral decision —to give or not to give anamount of money to poor people in the Third World. A questionnaire inwhich the subjects are asked about the reasons for their decision showsthat, at least in...

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Personal Identity in the Dictator Game

Aguiar, Fernando; Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Paz Espinosa, Maria - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2008

´This paper aims to analize the role of personal identity indecision making. To this end, it starts by reviewing criticallythe growing literature on economics and identity. Consideringthe ambiguities that the concept of social identity poses, our proposalfocuses on the concept of personal...

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Being of two minds: an ultimatum experiment investigating affective processes

Cappellettia, Dominique; Güth, Werner; Ploner, Matteo - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We experimentally investigate how affective processes influence proposers' and responders' behaviour in the Ultimatum Game. Using a dual-system approach, we tax cognitive resources through time pressure and cognitive load to enhance the influence of affective processes on behaviour. We find that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090487

Unravelling conditional cooperation - Reciprocity, inequity aversion, and anchoring in public goods provision

Cappelletti, Dominique; Güth, Werner; Ploner, Matteo - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Extensive research on human cooperation in social dilemmas has shown that individuals condition their behaviour upon the behaviour of others. However, few attempts have been made to disentangle the motivations backing conditional cooperation. We try to assess the relative importance of three...

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