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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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See no evil : information chains and reciprocity in teams
Steiger, Eva-Maria; Zultan, Ro'i - 2011
chains facilitate cooperation by balancing positive and negative reciprocity. -- team production ; public goods ; incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009303879
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Stochastic income and conditional generosity
Kellner, Christian; Reinstein, David; Riener, Gerhard - 2015
; theories of affect predict the reverse. In field and lab experiments, we allow people to donate from lottery winnings, varying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346238
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688574
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010253153
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011686115
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Broken punishment networks in public goods games : experimental evidence
Leibbrandt, Andreas; Ramalingam, Abhijit; Sääksvuori, … - 2012
Abundant evidence suggests that high levels of contributions to public goods can be sustained through self-governed monitoring and sanctions. This experimental study investigates the effectiveness of decentralized sanctioning institutions where punishment opportunities are restricted to agents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487797
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Voluntary payments, privacy and social pressure on the Internet : a natural field experiment
Regner, Tobias; Riener, Gerhard - 2013
The emergence of Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW) business models as a successful alternative to conventional uniform pricing brings up new questions related to the task of pricing. We investigate the effect of a reduction of privacy on consumers' purchase decisions (whether to buy, and if so how much...
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Volunteering to take on power : experimental evidence from matrilineal and patriarchal societies in India
Banerjee, Debosree; Ibañez, Marcela; Riener, Gerhard; … - 2015
Gender equity in the creation and enforcement of social norms is important not only as a normative principle but it can also support long term economic growth. Yet in most societies, coercive power is in the hands of men. We investigate whether this form of segregation is due to gender...
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