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Fair shares and selective attention
Amasino, Dianna; Pace, Davide Domenico; Weele, Joël J. … - 2021 - Revision November 2021
Attitudes towards fairness and redistribution differ along socio-economic lines, resulting in political conflict. To …
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Promises undone : how committed pledges impact donations to charity
Fosgaard, Toke Reinholt; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2018
The declining use of cash in society urges charities to experiment with digital payment instruments in their off-line fund raising activities. Cash and card payments differ in that the latter do not require individuals to donate at the time of the ask, disconnecting the decision to give from the...
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Intuitive versus contemplative : do entrepreneurs differ in their decision-making style from managers and employees?
Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2017
We examine in a large survey (n = 1,928) how contemplative entrepreneurs, managers and employees are in their decision making styles. Besides two well-known subjective measures taken from psychology, we also build on Rubinstein (2016) by including two objective measures derived from response...
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Stronger together : group incentives and the demand for prevention
Lagarde, Mylene; Riumallo Herl, Carlos - 2023
We study the power of social incentives to increase individuals' investment in preventive health using small financial incentives with group conditionality. In a field experiment in El Salvador, we compare those to equivalent individual incentives. Despite the uncertainty about others' behavior,...
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Mental health literacy, beliefs and demand for mental health support among university students
Acampora, Michelle; Capozza, Francesco; Moghani, Vahid - 2022
performance. The intervention increases the willingness-to-pay for a mental health app among male respondents. Moreover, the …
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Disinformation for hire : examining the production of false COVID-19 information
Cohn, Alain; Stoop, Jan; Rahman, Hatim A. - 2022
Misinformation is linked to increased social divisions and adverse health outcomes. While most research focuses on the spread of misinformation, we examine the production of misinformation intended to mislead (disinformation). Our field experiment (N=1,200) found, adjusting for circumstantial...
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Moral property rights in bargaining with infeasible claims
Gächter, Simon; Riedl, Arno - 2003
In many business transactions, in labor-management relations, in internationalconflicts, and welfare state reforms bargainers hold strong entitlements that are oftengenerated by claims that are not feasible any more. These entitlements seem to considerablyshape negotiation behavior. By using the...
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Incentives, performance and choking in darts
Klein Teeselink, Bouke; Potter van Loon, Rogier J. D.; … - 2018
This paper examines the effect of incentives on the performance of darts players. We analyze four data sets comprising … natural research setting, because performance can be observed at the individual level and without the obscuring effects of … higher incentives, but choke when the incentives are really high. Professional players similarly display better performance …
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Does losing lead to winning? : an empirical analysis for four different sports
Klein Teeselink, Bouke; Assem, Martijn J. van den; … - 2020
Berger and Pope (2011) show that being slightly behind increases the likelihood of winning in professional and collegiate basketball. We extend their analysis to large samples of Australian football, American football and rugby matches, but find little to no evidence of such an effect for these...
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Hurting hurts more than helping helps : the role of the self-serving bias
Offerman, Theo - 1999
This paper investigates an implication of the self-serving bias for reciprocalresponses. It is hypothesized that negative intentionality matters more thanpositive intentionality for reciprocating individuals with a self-servingattributional style. Experimental evidence obtained in the hot...
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