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Other-regarding preferences, group identity and political participation : an experiment
Robalo, Pedro; Schram, Arthur; Sonnemans, Joep - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191396
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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
punishment behavior. (3) Thereare discontinuous "jumps" in the behavior of responders. They either chooseno punishment (destroy … nothing) or the highest level of punishment (destroyeverything). (4) Expectations have a significant effect on the … probabilityof punishment but not on the intensity of experienced emotion. We explainthis last result in terms of norm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301155
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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 … an increase in stake size does neither significantly affect cooperation nor, interestingly, the level of punishment. …
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Fostering cooperation through the enhancement of own vulnerability
Kopányi-Peuker, Anita; Offerman, Theo; Sloof, Randolph - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010190988
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The economics of altruistic punishment and the demise of cooperation
Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2005
in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important … mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this paper we explore the boundary conditions for altruistic punishment to … maintain cooperation by systematically varying the cost and impact of punishment, using a subject pool which extends beyond the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343948
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Stress reactions cannot explain the gender gap in willingness to compete
Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Mollerstrom, Johanna - 2015
Women are often less willing than men to compete, even in tasks where there is no gender gap in performance. Also, many people experience competitive contexts as stressful and previous research has documented that men and women sometimes react differently to acute stressors. We use two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532607
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A dynamic model of investor decision-making : how adaptation to losses affects future selling decisions
Lee, Carmen; Kräussl, Roman; Lucas, André; Paas, … - 2008
We conduct an experiment to test whether the size of a loss and the time in a losing position affect investors’ adaptation to the loss situation and, subsequently, whether this adaptation affects future investment decisions. As investors adapt to losses, their neutral reference point shifts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377365
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The endowment effect in games
Drouvelis, Michalis; Sonnemans, Joep - 2015
We study experimentally whether the endowment effect survives in a social and strategic context. Participants are asked for their Willingness-to-Accept (WTA) or Willingness-to-Pay (WTP) to play a series of 2x2 games. In the second part of the experiment, we study the endowment effect in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339153
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What can the big five personality factors contributr to explain small-scale economic behavior?
Müller, Julia; Schwieren, Christiane - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722686
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The impact of losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges
Buser, Thomas - 2014
How do people react to setbacks and successes? I introduce a new measure of challenge-seeking to determine the effect of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010373763