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The strategy method risks conflating confusion with a social preference for conditional cooperation in public goods games
Burton-Chellew, Maxwell N.; D'Amico, Victoire; Guérin, … - In: Games 13 (2022) 6, pp. 1-10
The strategy method is often used in public goods games to measure an individual's willingness to cooperate depending on the level of cooperation by their groupmates (conditional cooperation). However, while the strategy method is informative, it risks conflating confusion with a desire for fair...
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Explaining cooperative behavior in public goods games : how preferences and beliefs affect contribution levels
Ackermann, Kurt A.; Murphy, Ryan O. - In: Games 10 (2019) 1/15, pp. 1-34
individual level using multiple methods, and at multiple times during the experiment. With this rich set of predictor variables …
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Do economists punish less?
Kaiser, Jonas Pilgaard; Pedersen, Kasper Selmar; Koch, … - In: Games 9 (2018) 4/75, pp. 1-17
whether to engage in costly punishment of a free rider in a survey-based experiment with 1423 students from seven study areas …
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Introduction to the special issue "pro-sociality and cooperation"
Ghidoni, Riccardo - In: Games 12 (2021) 3, pp. 1-2
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A choice prediction competition for a social preferences in simple extensive form games : an introduction
Ert, Eyal; Erev, Ido; Roth, Alvin E. - In: Games 2 (2011) 3, pp. 257-276
and the other on predicting the choices of the second mover. The competitions are based on an estimation experiment and a … competition experiment. The two experiments use the same methods and subject pool, and examine games randomly selected from the … same distribution. The current introductory paper presents the results of the estimation experiment, and clarifies the …
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Patience or fairness? : analyzing social preferences in repeated games
Duffy, John; Muñoz-García, Félix - In: Games 3 (2012) 1, pp. 56-77
This paper investigates how the introduction of social preferences affects players’ equilibrium behavior in both the one-shot and the infinitely repeated version of the Prisoner’s Dilemma game. We show that fairness concerns operate as a ”substitute” for time discounting in the...
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Giving to versus taking from in- and out-group members
Alt, Marius; Gallier, Carlo; Schlüter, Achim; Nelson, … - In: Games 9 (2018) 3/57, pp. 1-14
In this experiment, we test whether subjects’ responses to variations in the action set in a dictator game depends on …
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Punishment strategies across societies : conventional wisdoms reconsidered
Suleiman, Ramzi; Samid, Yuval - In: Games 12 (2021) 3, pp. 1-23
reconsiders the generality of both explanations. Using data from a public goods experiment with punishment, conducted by the …
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Prescriptive norms and social comparisons
Michaeli, Moti; Spiro, Daniel - In: Games 9 (2018) 4/97, pp. 1-12
This paper analyzes the equilibrium strength of prescriptive norms to contribute to public goods. We consider three methods of establishing what an acceptable contribution to the public good is. Under the first method, the contribution of the bottom contributor is the reference point by which...
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Intentions-based reciprocity to monetary and non-monetary gifts
Chao, Matthew - In: Games 9 (2018) 4/74, pp. 1-18
Social preference models emphasize that perceived intentions motivate reciprocity. However, laboratory tests of this theory typically manipulate perceived intentions through changes in wealth resulting from a sacrifice in pay by another. There is little evidence on whether reciprocity occurs in...
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