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auxiliary assumptions that need to compensate for an unrealistic picture of human motivation and behavior. This essay briefly … outlines the evidence for a more inclusive picture of humans in which ethics and morality play a central role. It argues for …
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We conduct an experiment where subjects are matched in groups of three and vote on a moral transgression. Analyzing …
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decision-making in the context of initial play in two-player matrix games, analyzing over 90,000 human decisions across more …
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hypothesis using a laboratory experiment that induces a conflict between two of the most-studied moral motives: fairness and …
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involvement in group-decision making affect the decisions of group members in subsequent individual decisions? We address these … questions using a controlled dictator-game experiment and find the following main results. First, groups and individuals are not … individuals. Second, participants who were previously part of a group decision process are more generous in a subsequent …
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Do people anticipate the conditions that enable them to manipulate their beliefs when confronted with unpleasant information? We investigate whether individuals seek out the "cognitive flexibility" needed to distort beliefs in self-serving ways, or instead attempt to constrain it, committing to...
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take place before an individual has made any decision or after individuals have played five rounds of the mind game …
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than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. This result is robust when …
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Many tasks can only be completed if several people contribute. Likewise, many institutions, e.g. voting rules, require the support of several people to implement specific decisions. In such situations, individual costs from supporting may decrease in the number of supporters. This holds true for...
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are information seeking otherwise. Because belief updating depends on the decision problem in which new information is …
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