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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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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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Negative reciprocity and the interaction of emotions and fairness norms
Reuben, Ernesto; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002618054
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057179
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The behavioral impact of emotions in a power to take game : an experimental study
Bosman, Ronald; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 1999
-making experiment preceding the take game. The gameconsists of two stages. In the first stage, the take authority decides howmuch income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301155
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The importance of emotions for the effectiveness of social punishment
Hopfensitz, Astrid; Reuben, Ernesto - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346451
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The endowment effect in games
Drouvelis, Michalis; Sonnemans, Joep - 2015
experiment, we study the endowment effect in lotteries with the same payoffs as the games in the first part. Our findings provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339153
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Honesty in a signaling model of tax evasion
Pruzhansky, Vitaly - 2004
We study the phenomenon of tax evasion using a simple signaling model, in which the signal is taxpayer's reported income. The novelty of our approach lies in the way we define honesty. Specifically, we advocate the view that there are no absolutely honest taxpayers: all taxpayers may under...
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Honesty in a signaling model of tax evasion
Pruzhansky, Vitaly - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001948545
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Exploitation and cooperation in networks
Galeotti, Andrea; Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel A. - 2004
A fundamental question in social sciences is how trust emerges. We provide an answer which relies on the formation of social and economic relationships. We argue that behind trust lies the fact that individuals invest in connections taking into account the potential externalities networks...
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