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Pelligra, Vittorio; Reggiani, Tommaso; Zizzo, Daniel John - 2016

We consider the notions of static and dynamic reasonableness of requests in a trust game experiment. We vary …

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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion

Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015

We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....

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Cooperation and discrimination within and across language borders : evidence from children in a bilingual city

Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2015

a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six …

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A real-effort experiment on gift exchange with temptation

Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2015

We conduct a real-effort experiment to test whether workers reciprocate generous wages by managers when workers are …

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Revisiting a remedy against the chain of unkindness

Schnedler, Wendelin; Stephan, Nina Lucia - 2020

Previous experiments observe a chain of unkindness: unkindly treated people treat an innocent third party unkindly. As a remedy, it has been proposed that the unkindly treated person engages in emotional regulation by writing a letter to the unkind person. Indeed, subjects who received little...

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Status inequality, moral disengagement and violence

Falk, Armin - 2017

behavior, in the experiment, a subject can inflict a painful electric shock on another subject in return for money. We …

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The many faces of human sociality : uncovering the distribution and stability of social preferences

Bruhin, Adrian; Fehr, Ernst; Schunk, Daniel - 2018

behavior over time and across situations. We tackle this task with an experiment and a structural model of preferences that …

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Prosocial managers, employee motivation, and the creation of shareholder value

Kajackaite, Agne; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018

Milton Friedman has famously claimed that the responsibility of a manager who is not the owner of a firm is "to conduct the business in accordance with their [the shareholders'] desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible." In this paper we argue that when contracts are...

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A method to estimate mean lying rates and their full distribution

Garbarino, Ellen; Slonim, Robert; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2018

Studying the likelihood that individuals cheat requires a valid statistical measure of dishonesty. We develop an easy empirical method to measure and compare lying behavior within and across studies to correct for sampling errors. This method estimates the full distribution of lying when agents...

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Happiness and productivity

Oswald, Andrew J.; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2009

The paper provides evidence that happiness raises productivity. In Experiment 1, a randomized trial is designed. Some … the robustness and lasting nature of this kind of effect, a complementary Experiment 2 is designed. In this, major real …-world unhappiness shocks – bereavement and family illness – are studied. The findings from (real-life) Experiment 2 match those from …

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