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Learning unethical practices from a co-worker : the peer effect of Jose Canseco

Gould, Eric D. (contributor); Kaplan, Todd R. (contributor) - 2008

This paper examines the issue of whether workers learn productive skills from their co-workers, even if those skills are unethical. Specifically, we estimate whether Jose Canseco, one of the best baseball players in the last few decades, affected the performance of his teammates. In his...

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Dark versus light personality types and moral choice

Dickinson, David L. - 2023

, participants completed 3 tasks of interest that contribute to an understanding or one's ethics: a task assessing prosociality, a …

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Unethical decision making and sleep restriction: experimental evidence

Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David - 2021

Recent examinations into the cognitive underpinnings of ethical decision making has focused on understanding whether … honesty is more likely to result from deliberative or unconscious decision processes. We randomly assigned participants to a …

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Incorporating conditional morality into economic decisions

Masclet, David; Dickinson, David L. - 2019

We present a framework that incorporates both moral motivations and fairness considerations into utility. The main idea is that individuals face a preference trade-off between their material individual interest and their desire to follow moral norms. In our model, we assume that moral motivation...

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From citizen's rights to civic responsibilities

Ronconi, Lucas - 2019

In less developed countries the state does not extends its legality homogenously. A share of the population suffers its absence or its illegal presence. In this article we argue that such irregular state intervention has more negative consequences that previously thought. Individuals who suffer...

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Facing yourself : a note on self-image

Falk, Armin - 2017

see their own face on the decision screen in a real-time video feed. In the two control conditions, subjects see either no …

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Cognitive skills explain economic preferences, strategic behavior, and job attachment

Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Götte, Lorenz; … - 2008

Economic analysis has said little about how an individual's cognitive skills (CS's) are related to the individual's preferences in different choice domains, such as risk-taking or saving, and how preferences in different domains are related to each other. Using a sample of 1,000 trainee truckers...

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Incentives and the allocation of effort over time : the joint role of affective and cognitive decision making

Goette, Lorenz (contributor); Huffman, David (contributor) - 2006

We use natural experiments plausibly exogenous, anticipated increases in the piece rate to study how effort responds to incentives. Our first finding, like some previous studies, lends little support to the view that incentives increase effort: raising the piece rate has zero effect on total...

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Decision-making by children

Lundberg, Shelly (contributor); Romich, Jennifer (contributor) - 2007

In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond … of parental control of child behavior and child resistance. Using child reports of decision-making and psychological and … cognitive measures from the NLSY79 Child Supplement, we examine the determinants of shared and sole decision-making in seven …

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Toward the integration of personality theory and decision theory in the explanation of economic and health behavior

Rustichini, Aldo; DeYoung, Colin G.; Anderson, Jon; … - 2012

emphasizing variables derived from formal decision theory. In a data set on trainee truckers in a large US company, we provide a … comparing the predictive power of measurements derived from personality theory and decision theory for several individual …. Further, decision theory and personality variables are meaningfully related. For example, we confirm that cognitive ability …

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