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Motivated memory in dictator games
Saucet, Charlotte; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2018
whether people retrieve their memory self-servingly in social encounters, we designed an experiment in which participants play …
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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences : a study on altruism in primary school children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2014
We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …
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Measuring socially appropriate social preferences
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Robbett, Andrea - 2022
We extend the literature structurally estimating social preferences by accounting for the desire to adhere to social norms. Our representative agent is strongly motivated by norms and failing to account for this causes us to overestimate how much agents care about helping those who are worse...
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Gender differences in the development of other-regarding preferences
John, Katrin; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2017
We use data from a gender-neutral dictator and public goods game setting to analyze differences in other-regarding preferences between boys and girls aged 10 to 17. The results indicate a higher mean of dictator giving, degree of egalitarian decisions and lower frequency of selfish decisions,...
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The right person for the right job: workers' prosociality as a screening device
Bigoni, Maria; Ploner, Matteo; Vu, Thi-Thanh-Tam - 2021
different jobs, based on workers' prosociality. We run an experiment to explore the link between workers' prosociality and their …
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Giving in dictator games : regard for others or regard by others?
Koch, Alexander K. (contributor);  … - 2005
experiment. We find no differences between treatments. This suggests that those dictators who give are purely internally … motivated, as asserted by models of other-regarding preferences. -- dictator game ; altruism ; social preferences …
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Gender effects, culture and social influence in the dictator game : an Italian study
O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Palomba, Arturo; Sbriglia, Patrizia - 2015
There is little consensus on whether women are more generous than men; some research results indicate a higher propensity towards giving of female dictators, whilst others suggest the opposite. Two explanations have been put forward. According to the first one, women are more generous than men...
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It hurts to ask
Bénabou, Roland; Jaroszewicz, Ania; Loewenstein, George F. - 2022
We analyze the offering, asking, and granting of help or other benefits as a three-stage game with bilateral private information between a person in need of help and a potential help-giver. Asking entails the risk of rejection, which can be painful: since unawareness of the need can no longer be...
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The effect of religion on cooperation and altruistic punishment : experimental evidence from public goods experiments
Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gökhan; Martinsson, Peter - 2011
. -- cooperation ; experiment ; public goods ; punishment ; religion …
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Concern for relative standing and deception
Galanis, Spyros; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2014
We report results from a sender-receiver deception game, which tests whether an individual's decision to deceive is influenced by a concern for relative standing in a reference group. The sender ranks six possible outcomes, each specifying a payoff for him and the receiver. A message is then...
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