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a tempting and profitable action for the Receiver. The results from our online experiment (N = 1,512) show that Senders …
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has moral preferences with a morality parameter equal to the level of assortment - is evolutionarily stable, while … preferences that lead to different behaviour are unstable. Together with their claim that altruistic and moral preferences differ … Hamiltonensis to satisfy the definition when the set of equilibria is empty, and their equilibrium behaviour is not determined. If …
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a better match with actual human behaviour, including ingredients of morality such as honesty, responsibility, and … equilibrium in prisoners' dilemmas or public goods games. We suggest that in order to understand human morality, and human … prosocial behaviour, we should look at reasons why evolution made us not play the subgame perfect Nash equilibrium in sequential …
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Netherlands and the US covering altruistic behaviour and reciprocity outside the lab. The results largely carry over. We argue …
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Incentives based on esteem, honor and shame are increasingly popular and easy to use due to modern surveillance techniques. However, the use of shaming is controversial: critics argue that delegating punishment to a crowd can lead to mob justice and a loss of control over the size of the...
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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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