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not onlymutual trust, like simple exchange, but also a substantial degree of coordination. We examinewhether players are …
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decision strategies in a manner that is consistent with its name: significantly lower levels of trust and decreased … personality on investor trust and trustee reciprocity in the presence relative to the absence of the investor's option to punish … levels of investor trust and trustee reciprocity, while there is a significant increase in both behaviors when punishment was …
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conducted a real effort fairness experiment where people in two of the world's richest countries, Norway and Germany, interacted … directly with people in Uganda and Tanzania, two of the world's poorest countries. In this experiment, the participants were …. First, entitlement considerations are crucial in explaining the distributive behavior of rich people in the experiment …
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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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context where the prevalence of lying is typically higher? Results from a lab experiment reveal that the impact of an oath on …
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achievements; what remains can be interpreted as (over)confidence. In this paper we study overconfidence using a sample of about … helpful: given the same academic achievement students with larger confidence get higher exam grades. Female students are less …
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experiment, we study the endowment effect in lotteries with the same payoffs as the games in the first part. Our findings provide …
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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 slightly more trustworthy. However, men's strategies are bimodal, peaking …
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