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-making experiment preceding the take game. The gameconsists of two stages. In the first stage, the take authority decides howmuch income …
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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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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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This paper experimentally explores how the enforcement of cooperative behavior in a social dilemma is facilitated through institutional as well as emotional mechanisms. Recent studies emphasize the importance of negatively valued emotions, such as anger, which motivate individuals to punish free...
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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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the variation in confidence and competition entry decisions. Conservatism is correlated across tasks and predicts …. Asymmetry is less stable across tasks, but predicts competition entry by increasing self-confidence. …
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We analyze gender differences in the trust game in a behind the veil of ignorance design. This method yields strategies that are consistent with actions observed in the classical trust game experiments. We observe that, on average, men and women do not differ in trust, and that women are...
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