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altruism, trust, trustworthiness, and cooperation. For non-social experiences, we find no effect on subsequent behavior in any …
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other people, even though a favorable reputation has no immediate material benefits. …
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Altruists and envious people who meet in contests are symbionts. They do better than a population of narrowly rational individuals. If there are only altruists and envious individuals, a particular mixture of altruists and envious individuals is evolutionarily stable.
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We study the pattern of correlations across a large number of behavioral regularities, with the goal of creating an empirical basis for more comprehensive theories of decision-making. We elicit 21 behaviors using an incentivized survey on a representative sample (n = 1;000) of the U.S....
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the power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany bycombining representative survey data … people s trust correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled … the Social Democratic Party or the Christian Democratic Party exhibit more trust. People above the age of 65 and those in …
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We show that warm-glow motives in provision by competing suppliers can lead to inefficient charity selection. In these situations, discretionary donor choices can promote efficient charity selection even when provision outcomes are non-verifiable. Government funding arrangements, on the other...
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&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers' investment and buyers' procurement … - but also with more competitive procurement: trust and rents from reduced supplier competition in the procurement process … strategies. We address these issues empirically using unique survey data on individual buyer-supplier relationships in the German …
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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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may attract more responsible employees. -- altruism ; conditional ; cooperation ; self-selection …
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