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The economics of altruistic punishment and the demise of cooperation

Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2005

Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...

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Negative reciprocity and the interaction of emotions and fairness norms

Reuben, Ernesto; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2005

This experimental study investigates how behavior changes after punishment for an unkind action. It also studies how fairness perceptions affect the reaction to punishment and whether this effect is consistent across repeated play and role experiences. A repeated version of the power-to-take...

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Everybody's doing it : on the emergence and persistence of bad social norms

Smerdon, David; Offerman, Theo; Genîzî, Ûrî - 2016

Social norms permeate society across a wide range of issues and are important to understanding how societies function. In this paper we concentrate on 'bad' social norms - those that are inefficient or even damaging to a group. This paper explains how bad social norms evolve and persist; our...

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Does stake size matter for cooperation and punishment?

Kocher, Martin; Martinsson, Peter; Visser, Martine - 2006 - This version: 2006-11-20

The effects of stake size on cooperation and punishment are investigated using a public goods experiment. We find that …

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Negative reciprocity and the interaction of emotions and fairness norms

Reuben, Ernesto; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2005

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A social norm nudge to save more : a field experiment at a retail bank

Dur, Robert A. J.; Fleming, Dimitry; Garderen, Marten van; … - 2019

examine whether a social norm nudgecan stimulate such households to save more by running a small-scale survey ex-periment and … a large-scale field experiment at a retail bank in the Netherlands.The survey experiment shows that a social norm nudge … increases intended sav-ings. In line with this, we find in our field experiment that households whoare exposed to the social …

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Control without deception

Bardsley, Nicholas - 2000

experiment shows there is a workable alternative todeception. …

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Directed altruism and enforced reciprocity in social networks : how much is a friend worth?

Leider, Stephen; Mobius, Markus; Rosenblat, Tanya; Do, … - 2007

an anonymous treatment where neither player is told at the end of the experiment which decision was selected for payment … future. We can decompose altruistic preferences into baseline altruism towards any partner and directed altruism towards … friends. Decision makers vary widely in their baseline altruism, but pass at least 50 percent more surplus to friends compared …

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Testing motives for charitable giving : a revealed-preference methodology with experimental evidence

Deb, Rahul; Gazzale, Robert S.; Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2012

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Motivated errors

Exley, Christine L.; Kessler, Judd B. - 2019

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