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We study a giver's generosity depending on her relationship with the recipient and the observer. We assign different group identities to the players using a variation of the minimumgroup paradigm, and test the effect of group memberships on altruistic giving in the dictator game with a passive...
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We analyze communication about the social returns to investment in a public good. We model two agents who have private information about these returns as well as their own taste for cooperation, or social preferences. Before deciding to contribute or not, each agent submits an unverifiable...
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-binding price requests. Using a laboratory experiment, we examine how competition moderates the way such cheap-talk communication …
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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 … counterparts. The reliability of the strategic effects of anti-social personality during trust, reciprocity and punishment strongly …
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behavior depending on their fairness perceptions, their experienced emotions, and their interaction with responders. We find …
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-making experiment preceding the take game. The gameconsists of two stages. In the first stage, the take authority decides howmuch income … primarily interested in how emotions influenceresponder behavior. Our findings are the following. (1) A higher take … happiness. Sincenegative emotions are experienced as painful, there is direct hedonicimpact. (2) Irritation and contempt drive …
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We study fairness and reciprocity in a Hawk-Dove game. This alllows us to testvarious models in one framework. We …
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Although reciprocity is a key concept in the social sciences, it is still unclear why people engage in costly … reciprocation. In this study, physiological and self-report measures were employed to investigate the role of emotions, using the …-reported anger highlights the importance of using both techniques for studying reciprocity. …
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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 reports the results of a cross-country comparison between Austria andJapan for an experimental 3-personcoalition formation ultimatum game. The experimental design allows thecomparison with respect to three decisions. (i)The coalition decision, (ii) proposers' demand behavior in 2- and...
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