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Motivated motive selection in the lying-dictator game
Barron, Kai; Stüber, Robert; Veldhuizen, Roel van - 2019
A large body of evidence suggests that people are willing to sacrifice personal material gain in order to adhere to a moral motive such as fairness or truth-telling. Yet less is known about what happens when moral motives are in conflict. We hypothesize that in such situations, individuals...
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Covid-19 crisis fuels hostility against foreigners
Bartoš, Vojtěch; Bauer, Michal; Cahlíková, Jana; … - 2020 - This version: June 2020, revised version
Aggressive behavior against out-group members often rises during periods of economic hardship and health pandemics. Here, we test the widespread concern that the Covid-19 crisis may fuel hostility against people from other nations or ethnic minorities. Using a controlled money-burning task, we...
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Decomposing discrimination: why a holistic approach to racism hides more than it reveals
Koopmans, Ruud - 2021
that such a concept of racism is not very helpful in understanding actual patterns of discrimination. Phenotype, ethnicity …In recent debates on "race" and "racism", a broad definition has emerged that encompasses phenotypic appearance as well … core element of this holistic concept of racism. On the basis of labor market and survey experiments, this article shows …
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Institutions, shared guilt, and moral transgression
Rothenhäusler, Dominik; Schweizer, Nikolaus; Szech, Nora - 2013
We study how institutional design influences moral transgression. People are heterogeneous in their feelings of guilt and can share guilt with others. Institutions determine the number of supporters necessary for immoral outcomes to occur. With more supporters required, every supporter can share...
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Organizations, diffused pivotality and immoral outcomes
Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013
This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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Choice architecture and incentives increase COVID-19 vaccine intentions and test demand
Serra-Garcia, Marta; Szech, Nora - 2021
Willingness to vaccinate and test are critical in the COVID-19 pandemic. We study the effects of two measures to increase vaccination and testing: "choice architecture" and monetary compensations. Choice architecture has the goal of "nudging" people into a socially desired direction without...
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Anchored strategic reasoning
Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Seres, Gyula - 2022
-theoretic model that considers players’ beliefs about others’ behavior as a mediator for the effect of the anchor on a player’s choice … beliefs about the opponents’ intentions. Notwithstanding, we also demonstrate that a player might adjust away from rather than …
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Speed, quality, and the optimal timing of complex decisions : field evidence
Strittmatter, Anthony; Sunde, Uwe; Zēgners, Dainis - 2022
This paper presents an empirical investigation of the relation between decision speed and decision quality for a real-world setting of cognitively-demanding decisions in which the timing of decisions is endogenous: professional chess. Move-by-move data provide exceptionally detailed and precise...
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Decisions and performance under bounded rationality : a computational benchmarking approach
Zēgners, Dainis; Sunde, Uwe; Strittmatter, Anthony - 2020
This paper presents a novel approach to analyze human decision-making that involves comparing the behavior of professional chess players relative to a computational benchmark of cognitively bounded rationality. This benchmark is constructed using algorithms of modern chess engines and allows...
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Persuasion against self-control problems
Wangenheim, Jonas von - 2018
I derive a social planner's optimal information design in an environment with quasi-hyperbolic discounting consumers without commitment. Consumption induces instantaneous utility, but unknown delayed cost. Consumers may or may not acquire additional costless information on the cost parameter....
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