Showing 1 - 10 of 4,154
Trust games are employed to investigate the effect of heterogeneity in income and race on cooperation in South Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301019
We investigate how heterogeneous social preferences affect the communication of painful information in social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014564280
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298544
This article studies whether people want to control which information on their own past pro-social behavior is revealed to other people. Participants in an experiment are assigned a color which depends on their own past pro-sociality. They can then spend money to increase or decrease the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966892
value-maximizers, others are biased towards approval. We focus on the efficient use of scarce information when communication … committees ; committees composition ; communication in committees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009490613
Theory of mind and individual preferences are important determinants in social decision making. The current study … examined in a large sample whether being a cooperative preference type is related with better theory of mind skills …. Furthermore, by testing adolescents and adults, we examined the impact of age on this relation. Theory of mind is measured in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009689352
We develop a theory of interstate conflict in which the degree of genealogical relatedness between populations has a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003854499
We analyze equilibria of two-player contests where players have intention-based preferences. We find that players invest more effort compared to the case with selfish preferences and are even willing to exert effort when the monetary value of the prize converges to zero. As a consequence,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009702885
This paper combines several large-scale surveys with different identification strategies to shed new light on the determinants of cooperative behavior. We provide evidence indicating that the well-being maximizing level of trust is above the income maximizing level. Higher trust is also linked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288022
-extraction and cooperation shocks trigger short-run adjustments in the agents' behaviour. However, shocks do not have permanent … effects. This explains the long-run resilience of cooperation to rent extraction. We also show that cooperative attitudes and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011778679