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Does revealing personality data affect prosocial behavior?

Drouvelis, Michalis; Georgantzís, Nikolaos - 2019

Many modern organisations collect data on individuals' personality traits as part of their human resource selection processes. We test experimentally whether revealing information on personality data impacts on pro-social behaviour as measured in a one-shot modified dictator game and a public...

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Strong, bold, and kind : self-control and cooperation in social dilemmas

Kocher, Martin; Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian Ove R. - 2013

We develop a model that relates self-control and conflict identification to cooperation patterns in social dilemmas. As predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels of cooperation. This means that there is...

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Thanks but no thanks : a new policy to reduce land conflict

Dufwenberg, Martin; Köhlin, Gunnar; Martinsson, Peter; … - 2014

Land conflicts in developing countries are costly. An important policy goal is to create respect for borders. This often involves mandatory, expensive interventions. We propose a new policy design, which in theory promotes neighborly relations at low cost. A salient feature is the option to...

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Competition and the role of group identity

Cornaglia, Francesca; Drouvelis, Michalis; Masella, Paolo - 2019

The emergence of competition is a defining aspect of human nature and characterizes many important social environments. However, its relationship with how social groups are formed has received little attention. We design an experiment to analyze how individuals' willingness to compete is...

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Lab experiments are a major source of knowledge in the social sciences

Falk, Armin; Heckman, James J. - 2009

Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences …. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences …, although during the last two decades, the use of lab experiments has accelerated. Nonetheless, there remains considerable …

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Cheating in labour markets

Drouvelis, Michalis; Kocher, Martin - 2021

Our results from a laboratory experiment offer new evidence for the detrimental effects that cheating behaviour in the workplace may have on the degree of reciprocity between firms and workers. First, we replicate existing findings showing that in the absence of monitoring (cheating is possible)...

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Giving and costless retaliation in the power-to-take game

Drouvelis, Michalis; Hanaki, Nobuyuki; Shimada, Natsumi; … - 2023

Extending the power-to-take game, we explore the impact of two forces that may shape retaliation. In our 2x2 design, i) in addition to taking, the proposers can give part of their endowment to the responders, and ii) in addition to destroying their own endowment in retaliation, the responders...

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The bonus-income donation norm

Drouvelis, Michalis; Isen, Adam; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2019

charities and other individuals yield a wide range of income-effect estimates. We conduct two experiments to first test whether …

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Moral judgments in social dilemmas : how bad is free riding?

Cubitt, Robin P.; Drouvelis, Michalis; Gaechter, Simon; … - 2010

withdrawing all support. -- moral judgments ; moral psychology ; framing effects ; public goods experiments ; free riding …

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Can charitable appeals identify and exploit belief heterogeneity?

Drouvelis, Michalis; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2021

Charitable fundraisers frequently announce giving by others, and research shows that this can increase donations. However, this mechanism may not put information about peers to the most efficient use if it is costly to inform individuals who are indifferent to peer actions or causes some...

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