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From windfall sharing to property ownership : prosocial personality traits in giving and taking dictator games

Zhao, Kun; Kashima, Yoshihisa; Smillie, Luke D. - In: Games 9 (2018) 2/30, pp. 1-18

The dictator game is a well-known task measuring prosocial preferences, in which one person divides a fixed amount of windfall money with a recipient. A key factor in real-world transfers of wealth is the concept of property ownership and consequently the related acts of giving and taking. Using...

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To condemn is not to punish : an experiment on hypocrisy

Grundherr, Michael von; Jauernig, Johanna; Uhl, Matthias - In: Games 12 (2021) 2, pp. 1-13

reported in the media. In a controlled and incentivized experiment, we investigate how observers rate different types of …

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What behaviors are disapproved? : experimental evidence from five dictator games

López-Pérez, Raúl; Vorsatz, Marc - In: Games 3 (2012) 2, pp. 78-96

The literature on social norms has often stressed that social disapproval is crucial to foster compliance with norms and promote fair and cooperative behavior. With this in mind, we explore the disapproval of allocation decisions using experimental data from five dictator games with a feedback...

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Teams do inflict costly third-party punishment as individuals do : experimental evidence

Kamei, Kenju - In: Games 12 (2021) 1/22, pp. 1-11

Initiated by the seminal work of Fehr and Fischbacher (Evolution and Human Behavior (2004)), a large body of research has shown that people often take punitive actions towards norm violators even when they are not directly involved in transactions. This paper shows in an experimental setting...

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Punishment, cooperation, and cheater detection in "noisy" social exchange

Bornstein, Gary; Weisel, Ori - In: Games 1 (2010) 1, pp. 18-33

Explaining human cooperation in large groups of non-kin is a major challenge to both rational choice theory and the theory of evolution. Recent research suggests that group cooperation can be explained by positing that cooperators can punish non-cooperators or cheaters. The experimental evidence...

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Commitment to cooperation and peer punishment : its evolution

Sasaki, Tatsuya; Okada, Isamu; Uchida, Satoshi; Chen, … - In: Games 6 (2015) 4, pp. 574-587

Theoretical and empirical studies have generally weighed the effect of peer punishment and pool punishment for sanctioning free riders separately. However, these sanctioning mechanisms often pose a puzzling tradeoff between efficiency and stability in detecting and punishing free riders. Here,...

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Self-governance in generalized exchange. a laboratory experiment on the structural embeddedness of peer punishment

Kanitsar, Georg - In: Games 12 (2021) 2, pp. 1-16

another structural setting: a system of generalized exchange. In a laboratory experiment, a repeated four-player prisoner …

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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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Social learning strategies and cooperative behaviour : evidence of payoff bias, but not prestige or conformity, in a social dilemma game

Watson, Robin; Morgan, Thomas J. H.; Kendal, Rachel L.; … - In: Games 12 (2021) 4, pp. 1-26

via social learning. Using an online social dilemma experiment, we find evidence that participants' contributions were … learning strategies employed within the experiment, but that this cooperative propensity could be reduced through selection …

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When two become one : how group mergers affect solidarity

Schmitz, Jan - In: Games 10 (2019) 3/30, pp. 1-42

from an experiment in which subjects interact in groups and face the decision to help a group member who is in need of help … due to an exogenous shock. Subjects interact in small groups in the first part of the experiment and groups are randomly … merged to form big groups in the second part of the experiment. Helping rates are higher in merged groups compared with big …

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