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voting. Using a laboratory experiment to simulate a data-entry organization, we find that, while autocratic decision … examines how changes in the decision-making rights about what workgroup members can do on the job affect cyberloafing and … subsequent work productivity. We compare two different types of decision-making regimes: autocratic decision-making and group …
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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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We introduce a dynamic model of emotional behavior regulation that can generalize to a wide range of decision dilemmas …. Dilemmas are characterized by availability of mutually exclusive goals that a decision maker is dually motivated to pursue. In … observed between so-called “preferences” revealed in repeated decision dilemmas (e.g., by choosing A over B at time 1, then …
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decision, dictators read a short text. Depending on the treatment, the text either emphasizes their decision power and freedom … receiver, while only women seem to react positively to a text that emphasizes their decision power and freedom of choice. …
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We present a model where each of two players chooses between remuneration based on either private or team effort … players to choose team remuneration in a series of laboratory experiments. This allows for high cooperation payoffs but also … provides individual free-riding incentives. Due to significant cooperation, we observe that, in team remuneration, participants …
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apply our model to team production and model a worker as being composed of a rational self, who chooses effort, and an …
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experiment, the participants (N = 168, 84 women and 84 men) chose whether to perform a cooperative task only with members of the … own gender or in a mixed-gender team. We found that independent of the choice of team, in the initial period, men … contributed significantly more to the team projects than women. Men preferred the successful men-only teams in the subsequent …
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We experimentally investigate whether individuals are more likely to engage in dishonest behavior after having experienced unfairness perpetrated by an individual with a salient group identity. Two individuals generate an endowment together, but only one can decide how to share it. They either...
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revealing of identities. Using a laboratory experiment, we implement a 20% donation share that is dependent on participants …' contributions to a public good. The donation is either costless (because it is financed by the experimenter) or deducted from a team … end of the experiment leads to higher contributions to the public good. Non-parametric statistics indicate that when …
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In this paper, we present the results of an experiment conducted in Italy on trusting behaviour. Our subjects … two measures of trustworthiness among all recipients in the experiment, one based on the questionnaires’ answers and … another based on the strategy method. We then compare the ex-ante behavioural decision to trust (before participants are …
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