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Norm enforcement in social dilemmas : an experiment with police commissioners
Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2014
Do individuals trained in law enforcement punish or reward differently from typical student subjects? We analyze norm enforcement behavior of newly appointed police commissioners in both a Voluntary Contribution Mechanism game and a Common Pool Resource game. Our experimental design includes...
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Exclusion and reintegration in a social dilemma
Solda, Alice; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2017
Using a negatively framed public good game, we study the cooperative behavior of individuals who reintegrate their group after being excluded by their peers. We manipulate the length of exclusion and whether this length is imposed exogenously or results from a vote. We show that people are...
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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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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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Partners in crime : diffusion of responsibility in antisocial behaviors
Behnk, Sascha; Hao, Li; Reuben, Ernesto - 2017
Using a series of sender-receiver games, we find that two senders acting together are willing to behave more antisocially towards the receiver than single senders. This result is robust in two contexts: when antisocial messages are dishonest and when they are honest but unfavorable. Our results...
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Embezzlement and guilt aversion
Attanasi, Giuseppe; Rimbaud, Claire; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2018
Psychological game theory can contribute to renew the analysis of unethical behavior by providing insights on the nature of the moral costs of dishonesty. We investigate the moral costs of embezzlement in situations where donors need intermediaries to transfer their donations to recipients and...
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Guilt aversion in (new) games : does partners' payoff vulnerability matter?
Attanasi, Giuseppe; Rimbaud, Claire; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2023
beliefs are disappointed. It is triggered by the willingness to respond to the co-player's beliefs on his strategy, regardless …
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Peer effects in pro-social behavior : social norms or social preferences?
Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - 2012
experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who then make effort choices sequentially. In our … preferences (Fehr-Schmidt, 1999). As we show from a norms-elicitation experiment, it is also consistent with social norms … explanation for the observed peer effect. -- peer effects ; social influence ; gift-exchange ; experiment ; social preferences …
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Self selection does not increase other-regarding preferences among adult laboratory subjects, but student subjects may be more self-regarding than adults
Anderson, Jon; Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; … - 2010
) and therefore subjects self-selected into the experiment. Because the structure of their training program reduced the …-selected adults and the adult trainees, suggesting that selection into this type of experiment is unlikely to bias inferences with … experiment ; field experiment ; other-regarding behavior ; social preferences ; truckload ; trucker …
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Black sheep and walls of silence
Mühlheußer, Gerd (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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