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Schwardman, Peter; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2016

We experimentally investigate the determinants of overconfidence and test the hypothesis, advanced by Robert Trivers, that overconfidence serves to more effectively persuade or deceive others. After performing a cognitively challenging task, half of our subjects are informed about the...

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Individual oath-swearing and lying under peer pressure

Kingsuwankul, Sorravich - 2023

context where the prevalence of lying is typically higher? Results from a lab experiment reveal that the impact of an oath on …Previous studies have shown that an oath can reduce lying at an individual level. Can oaths reduce lying in groups, a … lying in a group context depends on the incentive structure. Oath reduces lying only when payoffs are independent. Evidence …

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Control without deception

Bardsley, Nicholas - 2000

Lying to participants offers an experimenter the enticing prospect ofmaking "others' behaviour" a controlled variable … experiment shows there is a workable alternative todeception. …

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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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Taking punishment into your own hands : an experiment

Müller, Julia; Dürsch, Peter - 2013

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Can collusion promote corporate social responsibility? : evidence from the lab

Martinez, Francisco Gomez; Onderstal, Sander; Schinkel, … - 2019 - Revision: October 3, 2019

agreements among firms may promote public interest objectives. We test this idea in a laboratory experiment. Participants playing …

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Equilibrium selection in experimental cheap talk games

Groot Ruiz, Adrian de; Offerman, Theo; Onderstal, Sander - 2015

In the past, many refinements have been proposed to select equilibria in cheap talk games. Usually, these refinements were motivated by a discussion of how rational agents would reason in some particular cheap talk games. In this paper, we propose a new refinement and stability measure that is...

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Bubble formation and (in)efficient markets in learning-to-forecast and -optimise experiments

Te, Bao; Hommes, Cars H.; Makarewicz, Tomasz - 2015

This experiment compares the price dynamics and bubble formation in an asset market with a price adjustment rule in …

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Reflexivity, expectations feedback and almost self-fulfilling equilibria : economic theory, empirical evidence and laboratory experiments

Hommes, Cars H. - 2013

We discuss recent work on bounded rationality and learning in relation to Soros' principle of reflexivity and stress the empirical importance of non-rational, almost self-fulfilling equilibria in positive feedback systems. As an empirical example, we discuss a behavioral asset pricing model with...

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Behaviorally rational expectations and almost self-fulfilling equilibria

Hommes, Cars H. - 2013

Rational expectations assumes perfect, model consistency between beliefs and market realizations. Here we discuss behaviorally rational expectations, characterized by an observable, parsimonious and intuitive form of consistency between beliefs and realizations. We discuss three case-studies....

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