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Do reciprocators exploit or resist moral wiggle room? : an experimental analysis

Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2015

experiment, a trust game variant, we study whether moral wiggle room also prevails, when reciprocity is a potential motivation … reciprocity. Among our subjects, 40% of the reciprocators exploited moral wiggle room. …

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Co-employment of permanently and temporarily employed agents

Güth, Werner; Kocher, Martin; Angelova, Vera - 2010

equal treatment of agents. Discrimination is, thus, a consequence of reciprocity. Agents that are discriminated against …

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Unravelling conditional cooperation : reciprocity, inequity aversion, and anchoring in public goods provision

Cappelletti, Dominique; Güth, Werner; Ploner, Matteo - 2011

cooperation. We try to assess the relative importance of three motives - namely reciprocity, inequity aversion, and anchoring - in … a non-linear voluntary contribution experiment. We find that, for those conditionally cooperating, both reciprocity and … reciprocity. In contrast, anchoring plays only a marginal role. Compared to what previously found in linear voluntary contribution …

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Thinking in Chinese vs. thinking in English : social preference and risk attitudes of multicultural minds

Li, King King - 2010

This paper investigates whether language priming activates different cultural identities and norms associated with the language communicated; bilingual subjects are given Chinese instructions in the Chinese treatment and English instructions in the English treatment. The main findings are: (1) in...

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Equity versus efficiency? : Evidence from three-person generosity experiments

Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, Manfred; … - 2010

In two-person generosity games the proposer's agreement payoff is exogenously given whereas that of the responder is endogenously determined by the proposer's choice of the pie size. Earlier results for two-person generosity games show that participants seem to care more for efficiency than for...

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Unraveling fairness in simple games? : the role of empathy and theory of mind

Artinger, Florian; Exadaktylos, Filippos; Koppel, Hannes; … - 2010

Economists have been theorizing that other-regarding preferences influence decision making. Yet, what are the corresponding psychological mechanisms that inform these preferences in laboratory games? Empathy and Theory of Mind (ToM) are dispositions considered to be essential in social...

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Social comparison and risk taking behavior

Gamba, Astrid; Manzoni, Elena - 2014

We study theoretically and experimentally decision making under uncertainty in a social environment. We introduce an interdependent preferences model that assumes that the decision maker evaluates monetary outcomes in relation both with his individual and his social reference point. In the...

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Does entitlement crowd out efficiency or equality seeking? : selling the roles in generosity game experiments

Bäker, Agnes; Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, … - 2010

In generosity games, one agreement payoff is exogenously given, whereas the other is endogenously determined by the proposer's choice of the "pie" size. This has been shown to induce pie choices which are either efficiency or equality seeking. In our experiment, before playing the generosity...

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Self-control and crime revisited : disentangling the effect of self-control on risk taking and antisocial behavior

Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2017

Low self-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. The aim of our study is to provide causal evidence on the link between self-control and criminal behavior. We test whether individuals with lower self-control behave in a more antisocial manner and are less risk-averse and thus are,...

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Beyond procedural equity and reciprocity

Chlaß, Nadine; Güth, Werner; Miettinen, Topi - 2009

Most research in economics models agents somehow motivated by outcomes. Here, we model agents motivated by procedures instead, where procedures are defined independently of an outcome. To that end, we design procedures which yield the same expected outcomes or carry the same information on...

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