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Nieken, Petra; Walther, Sven - 2024

Remote work arrangements and increased virtual communication are commonplace. Particularly in organizations, virtual communication has become an essential tool for collaboration and exchanging information. Virtual communication channels, such as text or video messages, provide different levels...

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Are risk aversion and impatience related to cognitive ability?

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2009

This paper investigates whether risk aversion and impatience are correlated with cognitive ability. We conduct incentive compatible choice experiments measuring risk aversion, and impatience over an annual time horizon, for a representative sample of roughly 1,000 German adults. A measure of...

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A theory of tolerance

Corneo, Giacomo (contributor); Jeanne, Olivier (contributor) - 2007

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Smoking and social interaction

Poutvaara, Panu (contributor); Siemers, Lars (contributor) - 2007

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Behavior under social pressure : empty Italian stadiums and referee bias

Pettersson-Lidbom, Per (contributor); … - 2007

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Optimal compulsion when behavioral biases vary and the State errs

Valdés Prieto, Salvador; Schwarzhaupt, Ursula - 2011

When behavioral biases have varying sizes, and the State seeks to correct behavior through compulsion, the question is how to design optimal compulsion. One argument is that the amount of compulsion should rise with the size of the bias to be "cured". A contrary argument is that since compulsion...

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Organizations, diffused pivotality and immoral outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013

This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...

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Self-confidence and strategic behavior

Charness, Gary; Rustichini, Aldo; Ven, Jeroen van de - 2013

We test experimentally an explanation of over and under confidence as motivated by (perhaps unconscious) strategic … others ́statements of confidence about how well they have scored on an IQ test. In two-player tournaments where the highest … score wins, one is likely to enter at equilibrium when he knows that his stated confidence is higher than the other playerś …

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Do people anticipate loss aversion

Imas, Alex; Sadoff, Sally; Samek, Anya Savikhin - 2015 - This version: March 10, 2015

There is growing interest in the use of loss contracts that offer performance incentives as upfront payments that employees can lose. Standard behavioral models predict a tradeoff in the use of loss contracts: employees will work harder under loss contracts than under gain contracts; but,...

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Gender differences in honesty : groups versus individuals

Mühlheußer, Gerd; Roider, Andreas; Wallmeier, Niklas - 2014

Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to unethical behavior by individuals and by two-person groups. In contrast to individual decisions, gender matters strongly under group decisions. We find more lying in male...

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