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The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence

Fehr, Ernst; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2011

; parochialism ; experiments with children and adolescents …

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The many faces of human sociality : uncovering the distribution and stability of social preferences

Bruhin, Adrian; Fehr, Ernst; Schunk, Daniel - 2016

There is vast heterogeneity in the human willingness to weigh others' interests in decision making. This heterogeneity raises the question how one can parsimoniously model and characterize heterogeneity across several dimensions of social preferences while still being able to predict behavior...

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The intrinsic value of decision rights

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Herz, Holger - 2013

Philosophers, psychologists, and economists have long argued that certain decision rights carry not only instrumental value but may also be valuable for their own sake. The ideas of autonomy, freedom, and liberty derive their intuitive appeal - at least partly - from an assumed positive...

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The many faces of human sociality : uncovering the distribution and stability of social preferences

Bruhin, Adrian; Fehr, Ernst; Schunk, Daniel - 2018

There is vast heterogeneity in the human willingness to weigh others' interests in decision making. This heterogeneity concerns the motivational intricacies as well as the strength of other-regarding behaviors, and raises the question how one can parsimoniously model and characterize...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902981

Appropriating the commons : a theoretical explanation

Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001

pool resource (CPR) experiments. The evidence indicates that in standard CPR games without communication and without …

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Revealed preferences in sequential prisoners' dilemma : a horse-race between five utility functions

Miettinen, Topi; Kosfeld, Michael; Fehr, Ernst; … - 2017

We experimentally investigate behavior and beliefs in a sequential prisoner's dilemma. Each subject had to choose an … action as first-mover and a conditional action as second-mover. All subjects also had to state their beliefs about others …' second-mover choices. We find that subjects' beliefs about others' choices are fairly accurate on average. Using the elicited …

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Social norms, endogenous sorting and the culture of cooperation

Fehr, Ernst; Williams, Tony - 2018

Throughout human history, informal sanctions by peers were ubiquitous and played a key role in the enforcement of social norms and the provision of public goods. However, a considerable body of experimental evidence suggests that informal peer sanctions cause large collateral damage and...

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The ambiguity triangle : uncovering fundamental patterns of behavior under uncertainty

Burghart, Daniel R.; Epper, Thomas; Fehr, Ernst - 2015

The probability triangle (also called the Marschak-Machina triangle) allows for compact and intuitive depictions of risk preferences. Here, we develop an analogous tool for choice under uncertainty - the ambiguity triangle - and show that indifference curves in this triangle capture preferences...

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Use and abuse of authority : a behavioral foundation of the employment relation

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2013

Employment contracts give a principal the authority to decide flexibly which task his agent should execute. However, there is a tradeoff, first pointed out by Simon (1951), between flexibility and employer moral hazard. An employment contract allows the principal to adjust the task quickly to...

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Is strong reciprocity a maladaptation? : on the evolutionary foundations of human altruism

Fehr, Ernst; Henrich, Joseph - 2003

In recent years a large number of experimental studies have documented the existence of strong reciprocity among humans. Strong reciprocity means that people willingly repay gifts and punish the violation of cooperation and fairness norms even in anonymous one-shot encounters with genetically...

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