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The importance of emotions for the effectiveness of social punishment
Hopfensitz, Astrid; Reuben, Ernesto - 2006
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 riders. However, these types of emotions also trigger retaliatory … anger, ‘social’ emotions like shame and guilt need to be present for punishment to be an effective deterrent of …
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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
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 … probabilityof punishment but not on the intensity of experienced emotion. We explainthis last result in terms of norm …
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Reciprocity and emotions when reciprocators know each other
Reuben, Ernesto; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2004
the intensity of ties between responders impacts the decisions, beliefs, and emotions of both the responders and the take … and expected take rate is a much better predictor of experienced emotions and destruction than the difference between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011338002
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Denial and alarmism in collective action problems
Förster, Manuel; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2018
information about these returns as well as their own taste for cooperation, or social preferences. Before deciding to contribute …
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Hybrid R&D
Goyal, Sanjeev; Konovalov, Alexander; Moraga-González, … - 2003
We develop a model of R&D collaboration in which individual firms carry out in-house research on core activities and undertake bilateral joint projects on non-core activities with other firms. We develop conditions on the profit functions of the firm under which R&D investments in different...
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How universal is behavior?
Brandts, Jordi; Saijō, Tatsuyoshi; Schram, Arthur - 2002
This paper studies behavior in experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution function' design allows us to obtain a view of...
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Anti-dumping, intra-industry trade and quality reversals
Moraga-González, José Luis; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2004
We examine an export game where two firms (home and foreign), located in two differentcountries, produce vertically differentiated products. The foreign firm is the most efficientin terms of R&D costs of quality development and the foreign country is relatively larger andendowed with a...
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Habitual communication
Ioannidis, Konstantinos - 2022
Many everyday activities are habitual. Among the most common human activities is communication. If people primarily communicate in a common-interests environment, they may form habits of truth-telling and believing messages. If they primarily communicate in a conflicting-interests environment,...
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Stable networks
Dutta, Bhaskar; Mutuswami, Suresh - 1997
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Exploitation and cooperation in networks
Galeotti, Andrea; Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel A. - 2004
A fundamental question in social sciences is how trust emerges. We provide an answer which relies on the formation of social and economic relationships. We argue that behind trust lies the fact that individuals invest in connections taking into account the potential externalities networks...
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