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When and how does mutation-generated variation promote the evolution of cooperation?

Spichtig, Mathias; Egas, Martijn - In: Games 10 (2019) 1/4, pp. 1-17

Mutation-generated variation in behavior is thought to promote the evolution of cooperation. Here, we study this by distinguishing two effects of mutation in evolutionary games of the finitely repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma in infinite asexual populations. First, we show how cooperation can...

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Team incentives under moral and altruistic preferences : wich team to choose?

Sarkisian, Roberto - In: Games 8 (2017) 3, pp. 1-24

utility is represented by a convex combination of selfish preferences and Kantian morality, or by altruism. In a moral hazard … incentives decreases with the degrees of morality and altruism displayed by the agents, thus leading to increased profits for the …

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Strategic behavior of moralists and altruists

Alger, Ingela; Weibull, Jörgen W. - In: Games 8 (2017) 3, pp. 1-21

Does altruism and morality lead to socially better outcomes in strategic interactions than selfishness? We shed some … material payoff if others were to act like himself or herself. It turns out that both altruism and morality may improve or … worsen equilibrium outcomes, depending on the nature of the game. Not surprisingly, both altruism and morality improve the …

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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

Two independent, but related, choice prediction competitions are organized that focus on behavior in simple two-person extensive form games (http://sites.google.com/site/extformpredcomp/): one focuses on predicting the choices of the first mover and the other on predicting the choices of the...

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Inequality aversion and reciprocity in moonlighting games

Engelmann, Dirk; Strobel, Martin - In: Games 1 (2010) 4, pp. 459-477

We study behavior in a moonlighting game with unequal initial endowments. In this game, predictions for second-mover behavior based on inequality aversion are in contrast to reciprocity. We find that inequality aversion explains only few observations. The comparison to a treatment with equal...

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Games with synergistic preferences

Jamison, Julian - In: Games 3 (2012) 1, pp. 41-55

many applied situations where altruism, or a baser motive, is implied. …

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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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The black box as a control for payoff-based learning in economic games

Burton-Chellew, Maxwell N.; West, Stuart A. - In: Games 13 (2022) 6, pp. 1-15

The black box method was developed as an "asocial control" to allow for payoff-based learning while eliminating social responses in repeated public goods games. Players are told they must decide how many virtual coins they want to input into a virtual black box that will provide uncertain...

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Risk-averse and self-interested shifts in groups in both median and random rules

Kamijo, Yoshio; Tamura, Teruyuki - In: Games 14 (2023) 1, pp. 1-21

The purpose of this study was to determine whether attitudes toward risk and altruism are affected by being in a group …

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Trusting the trust game : an external validity analysis with a UK representative sample

Banerjee, Sanchayan; Galizzi, Matteo M.; Vallve, Rafael … - In: Games 12 (2021) 3, pp. 1-16

Using a nationally representative sample of 1052 respondents from the United Kingdom, we systematically tested the associations between the experimental trust game and a range of popular self-reported measures for trust, such as the General Social Survey (GSS) and the Rosenberg scale for...

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