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Lab measures of other-regarding preferences can predict some related on-the-job behavior : evidence from a large scale field experiment
Burks, Stephen V.; Nosenzo, Daniele; Anderson, Jon; … - 2016
We measure a specific form of other-regarding behavior, costly cooperation with an anonymous other, among 645 subjects at a trucker training program in the Midwestern US. Using subjects' second-mover strategy in a sequential form of the Prisoners' Dilemma, we categorize subjects as: Free Rider,...
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Cooperation, punishment and organized crime : a lab-in-the-field experiment in Southern Italy
Nese, Annamaria; O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Sbriglia, Patrizia - 2016
This paper reports the results of an experimental investigation which allows a deeper insight into the nature of social preferences amongst organized criminals and how these differ from "ordinary" criminals on the one hand and from the non‐criminal population in the same geographical area on...
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The effect of positive mood on cooperation in repeated interaction
Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel; Nazneen, Mahnaz - 2017
Existing research supports two opposing mechanisms through which positive mood might affect cooperation. Some studies have suggested that positive mood produces more altruistic, open and helpful behavior, fostering cooperation. However, there is contrasting research supporting the idea that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011760094
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The role of payoff parameters for cooperation in the one-shot prisoner's dilemma
Gächter, Simon; Lee, Kyeongtae; Sefton, Martin; Weber, … - 2024
three experiments (N = 1,993): in a preliminary experiment, we vary the payoffs over a large range. In our first main … experiment (Study 1), we present a novel design that varies payoffs orthogonally in a within-subjects design. Our second main … experiment, Study 2, investigates the orthogonal variation of payoffs in a between-subjects design. In a complementary analysis …
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The tragedy of corruption
Chen, Yefeng; Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2016
We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective sanction of the public officials is introduced when the number of officials accepting a bribe from firms reaches a certain threshold. We show that, despite the social risk, the pursuit of...
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Beliefs, learning, and personality in the indefinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma
Gill, David; Rosokha, Yaroslav - 2022
We aim to understand the role and evolution of beliefs in the indefinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma (IRPD). To do so, we elicit beliefs about the supergame strategies chosen by others. We find that heterogeneity in beliefs and changes in beliefs with experience are central to understanding...
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Dishonesty as a collective-risk social dilemma
Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2022
We study cheating as a collective-risk social dilemma in a group setting in which individuals are asked to report their actual outcomes. Misreporting their outcomes increases the individual's earnings but when the sum of claims in the group reaches a certain threshold, a risk of collective...
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Risk, temptation, and efficiency in the one-shot prisoner's dilemma
Gächter, Simon; Lee, Kyeongtae; Sefton, Martin; Weber, … - 2021
The prisoner's dilemma (PD) is arguably the most important model of social dilemmas, but our knowledge about how a PD's material payoff structure affects cooperation is incomplete. In this paper we investigate the effect of variation in material payoffs on cooperation, focussing on one-shot PD...
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Higher intelligence groups have higher cooperation rates in the repeated prisoner's dilemma
Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo; Sofianos, Andis - 2014
Intelligence affects social outcomes of groups. A systematic study of the link is provided in an experiment where two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409805
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Performance pay and the erosion of worker cooperation : field experimental evidence
Burks, Stephen V. (contributor);  … - 2006
We report the results of a field experiment with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the United States. Messenger … differential cueing of a behavioral norm than the gradual acquisition of a new preference. -- field experiment ; social preference …
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