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We introduce opportunities for pre-play communication and to enter binding or non-binding contracts in trust games, and …
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We let subjects interact with anonymous partners in trust (investment) games with and without one of two kinds of pre …
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How malleable are people's fairness ideals? Although fairness is an oft-invoked concept in allocation situations, it is still unclear whether and to what extent people's allocations reflect their fairness ideals. We investigate in a laboratory experiment whether people's fairness ideals vary...
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We study trust and willingness to cooperate among and between Uyghur and Han college students in Xinjiang, China, where … find that members of each ethnicity show favoritism towards those of their own ethnicity in both trust and cooperation and … differently in their willingness to cooperate relative to trust, although both trust and trustworthiness positively correlate with …
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the individual and thereby assessing the limits of these fairness concerns. This study reports on Trust game experiments … by changing to an unfair allocation. This modification appeared to make the trust aspect more salient which can explain a … relatively strong consistency between trust behavior and answers to attitudinal trust questions. …
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Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors. Preferences were heterogeneous, ranging from...
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Results are reported of the first natural field experiment on the dictator game, where subjects are unaware that they participate in an experiment. In contrast to predictions of the standard economic model, dictators show a large degree of pro-social behavior. This paper builds a bridge from the...
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We experimentally investigate the effect of endowment allocation procedures on social preferences using a two-stage dictator game. In the first stage, participants who were randomly selected as allocators had to perform a task in order to earn money. Better performance on the task resulted in...
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Taking note of the wide variety and growing list of models in the literature to explain patterns of behavior observed in laboratory experiments, this paper identifies two tests, the Variety Test (ability of a model to explain outcomes under variety or alternative scenarios) and the Psychological...
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It is difficult to identify acts that are purely altruistic, and do not have some level of egoism or self-interest involved. By considering situations where team members seemingly have nothing to gain by the way they distribute points to others with regard to peer evaluation, and where their...
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