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Effects of religiosity on social behaviour : experimental evidence from a representative sample of spaniards

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Espín, Antonio M.; Neuman, Shoshana - 2013

This study explores the effect of several personal religion-related variables on social behaviour, using three paradigmatic economic games: the dictator (DG), ultimatum (UG), and trust (TG) games. A large carefully designed sample of a Spanish urban adult population (N=766) is employed. From...

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The rapid evolution of homo economicus : brief exposure to neoclassical assumptions increases self-interested behavior

Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S. - 2016

Economics students have been shown to exhibit more selfishness than other students. Because the literature identifies the impact of long-term exposure to economics instruction (e.g., taking a course), it cannot isolate the specific course content responsible; nor can selection, peer effects, or...

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Sleep restriction and time-of-day impacts on simple social interaction

Dickinson, David L.; McElroy, Todd - 2016

Simple bargaining games are the foundation of more complex social interactions necessary for healthy relationships and well‐functioning societies. Neuroscience research has shown that high‐level deliberative thinking processes are necessary for social‐decision making - it seems cognitively...

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The behavioral mechanisms of voluntary cooperation across culturally diverse societies : evidence from the US, the UK, Morocco, and Turkey

Weber, Till O.; Schulz, Jonathan F.; Beranek, Benjamin; … - 2023

We examine the role of cooperative preferences, beliefs, and punishments to uncover potential cross-societal differences in voluntary cooperation. Using one-shot public goods experiments in four comparable subject pools from the US and the UK (two similar Western societies) and Morocco and...

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Prediction based on entrepreneurship-prone personality profiles : sometimes worse than the toss of a coin

Konon, Alexander; Kritikos, Alexander - 2018

advice? In psychological research, group profiles are widely employed. In this contribution, we examine the performance of … profiles using the example of career prediction and advice, involving a comparison of average trait scores of successful …

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Corrupted by algorithms? : how AI-generated and human-written advice shape (dis)honesty

Leib, Margarita; Köbis, Nils; Rilke, Rainer Michael; … - 2023

people to behave dishonestly. In an experiment, we study how AI advice (generated by a Natural-Language-processing algorithm …) affects (dis)honesty, compare it to equivalent human advice, and test whether transparency about advice source matters. We … find that dishonesty-promoting advice increases dishonesty, whereas honesty-promoting advice does not increase honesty …

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Five open questions about prediction markets

Wolfers, Justin (contributor); Zitzewitz, Eric (contributor) - 2006

Interest in prediction markets has increased in the last decade, driven in part by the hope that these markets will prove to be valuable tools in forecasting, decision-making and risk management -- in both the public and private sectors. This paper outlines five open questions in the literature,...

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Gender and competition

Booth, Alison L. - 2009

In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different returns and focus especially on those incorporating...

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Partially identified treatment effects under imperfect compliance : the case of domestic violence

Siddique, Zahra - 2009

During the 1980s a set of randomized experiments were carried out to determine the usefulness of a mandatory arrest policy for domestic assault offenders. The first of these was the Minneapolis Domestic Violence experiment (MDVE), which was carried out in 1981. This paper re-examines the data...

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Lab labor : what can labor economists learn from the lab?

Charness, Gary; Kuhn, Peter Joseph - 2010

This paper surveys the contributions of laboratory experiments to labor economics. We begin with a discussion of methodological issues: why (and when) is a lab experiment the best approach; how do laboratory experiments compare to field experiments; and what are the main design issues? We then...

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