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Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001

This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by the intention underlying this action. The theory...

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Human pro-social motivation and the maintenance of social order

Gächter, Simon - 2014

pillar is internalized norms of cooperation, sustained by emotions such as guilt and shame. The second pillar is the … motivation can sustain cooperation if enough people cooperate but can jeopardise social order if many others follow selfish …

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Trust, Happiness, and pro-social behavior

Carattini, Stefano; Roesti, Matthias - 2020

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...

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Altruistic cooperation

Stenzel, Aurel; Lohse, Johannes; Requate, Tilman; … - 2025

We characterize 'Games of Altruistic Cooperation' as a class of games in which cooperation leaves the individual and … and/or communication support altruistic cooperation to sustain the welfare of future generations. Without punishment or … communication, cooperation is low; communication alone even increases the incidence of zero contributions. However, combining peer …

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A note on the design of experiments involving public goods

Graves, Philip E. - 2010

making ; choice behavior ; public goods ; experimental economics ; altruism ; fairness ; conditional reciprocity …

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Economic incentives and social preferences : a preference-based Lucas critique of public policy

Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009

counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies …

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Bargaining with charitable promises : true preferences and strategic behavior

Lange, Andreas; Schwirplies, Claudia - 2021

We report experimental ﬁndings on the role of charitable promises in bargaining settings. We vary the enforceability of such promises within variants of ultimatum games where the proposer suggest a split between himself, the responder and a char-itable donation. By reneging on initial pledges,...

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Theories of fairness and reciprocity : evidence and economic applications

Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2000

Most economic models are based on the self-interest hypothesis that assumes that all people are exclusively motivated by their material self-interest. In recent years experimental economists have gathered overwhelming evidence that systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests...

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The fundamental properties, stability and predictive power of distributional preferences

Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2023

Parsimony is a desirable feature of economic models but almost all human behaviors are characterized by vast individual variation that appears to defy parsimony. How much parsimony do we need to give up to capture the fundamental aspects of a population's distributional preferences and to...

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I care what you think : social image concerns and the strategic revelation of past pro-social behavior

Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2019

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...

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