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Shame and theory-of-mind predicts rule-following behavior

Ridinger, Garret - In: Games 11 (2020) 3/36, pp. 1-17

transgressed. The ability to recognize and understand the emotions of others is known as affective theory of mind (ToM). ToM is …

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Nudging climate change mitigation : a laboratory experiment with inter-generational public goods

Böhm, Robert; Gürerk, Özgür; Lauer, Thomas - In: Games 11 (2020) 4/42, pp. 1-20

To avoid the dangerous consequences of climate change, humans need to overcome two intertwined conflicts. First, they must deal with an intra-generational conflict that emerges from the allocation of costs of climate change mitigation among different actors of the current generation. Second,...

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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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Motivated memory in economics : a review

Amelio, Andrea; Zimmermann, Florian - In: Games 14 (2023) 1, pp. 1-15

Motivated reasoning refers to the idea that people hold certain beliefs about themselves or the world due to their desire to do so, rather than striving for accuracy. This type of belief formation can lead to overconfidence and polarization, as well as facilitate immoral behavior at both the...

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Agency equilibrium

Newton, Jonathan - In: Games 10 (2019) 1/14, pp. 1-15

Agency may be exercised by different entities (e.g., individuals, firms, households). A given individual can form part of multiple agents (e.g., he may belong to a firm and a household). The set of agents that act in a given situation might not be common knowledge. We adapt the standard model of...

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Contribution-based grouping under noise

Nax, Heinrich H.; Murphy, Ryan O.; Duca, Stefano; … - In: Games 8 (2017) 4, pp. 1-23

-negligible degrees of imprecision and error. This observation raises the more general question of whether mechanisms that work in theory …

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Can behavioral "nudges" improve compliance? : the case of Colombia social protection contributions

Alm, James; Rosales Cifuentes, Laura; Ortiz Niño, … - In: Games 10 (2019) 4/43, pp. 1-23

The Government of Colombia imposes a variety of taxes that must be paid by individual wage earners, called in their entirety "social protection contributions". Since 2007 individual payments have been collected using an on-line mechanism. In order to improve compliance, the Government used a...

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Nudge the lunch : a field experiment testing menu-primacy effects on lunch choices

Andersson, Ola; Nelander, Lif - In: Games 12 (2021) 1/2, pp. 1-19

By way of a field experiment conducted at a university cafeteria this paper finds that placing a vegetarian option instead of a meat option at the top of a menu decreases the share of meat dishes sold by 11%. This translates to a 6% decrease of daily emissions due to food sales. Using data on...

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Strategic synergies : unveiling the interplay of game theory and cultural dynamics in a globalized world

Wang, Yufei; Morkunas, Mangirdas; Wei, Jinzhao - In: Games 15 (2024) 4, pp. 1-25

This literature review focuses on cultural-related studies and game theory. First of all, it analyzes how social … can affect strategic decision making and how game theory could predict cooperations and conflicts. Overall, this study … aims to highlight the applicability of game theory in the modeling of cultural transformation and its interaction with …

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CEO bias and product substitutability in oligopoly games

Schroeder, Elizabeth; Tremblay, Carol Horton; Tremblay, … - In: Games 13 (2022) 2, pp. 1-23

We investigate why a firm might purposefully hire a chief executive officer (CEO) who under- or over-estimates the degree of substitutability between competing products. This counterintuitive result arises in imperfect competition because CEO bias can affect rival behavior and the intensity of...

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