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Endogenous game choice and giving behavior in distribution games

Karagözoğlu, Emin; Tosun, Elif - In: Games 13 (2022) 6, pp. 1-32

We experimentally investigated the effects of the possibility of taking in the dictator game and the choices of passive players between the dictator game and the taking game on the distribution decisions of active players. Our main findings support our hypothesis: when the dictator game is not...

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On information aggregation and interim efficiency in networks

Jimenez-Martinez, Antonio - In: Games 8 (2017) 1, pp. 1-14

with some initial information about the parameter and, in addition, is able to receive further information from their … information structure and on the possible pieces of information that can be gathered under the network. Then, I explore how …

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On information aggregation and interim efficiency in networks

Jiménez-Martínez, Antonio - In: Games 8 (2017) 1, pp. 1-14

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Anticipated communication in the ultimatum game

Capizzani, Mario; Mittone, Luigi; Musau, Andrew; … - In: Games 8 (2017) 3, pp. 1-20

Anticipated verbal feedback in a dictator game has been shown to induce altruistic behavior. However, in the ultimatum game which, apart from generosity, entails a strategic component since a proposer may (rightly) fear that the responder will reject a low offer, it remains an open question...

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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 light on this complex and non-trivial issue by examining a few canonical strategic interactions played by egoists, altruists and moralists. By altruists, we mean people who do not...

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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

Many real-world mechanisms are 'noisy' or 'fuzzy', that is the institutions in place to implement them operate with non-negligible degrees of imprecision and error. This observation raises the more general question of whether mechanisms that work in theory are also robust to more realistic...

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Playing a game or making a decision? Methodological issues in the measurement of distributional preferences

Greiff, Matthias; Ackermann, Kurt A.; Murphy, Ryan O. - In: Games 9 (2018) 4, pp. 1-25

In terms of role assignment and informational characteristics, different contexts have been used when measuring … a within-subjects design and systemically vary role assignment as well as the way information is displayed to subjects … compared to role certainty. Furthermore, altering the way information is displayed given a particular situation can have a more …

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Behavior in strategic settings: Evidence from a million rock-paper-scissors games

Batzilis, Dimitris; Jaffe, Sonia; Levitt, Steven D.; … - In: Games 10 (2019) 2, pp. 1-34

-sum game-rock-paper-scissors-with varying information to analyze whether play in strategic settings is consistent with extant … some of the time. Second, however, players strategically use information on previous play of their opponents, a non …: players with more experience use information on their opponents more effectively than less experienced players, and are more …

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Behavioural isomorphism, cognitive economy and recursive thought in non-transitive game strategy

Dyson, Benjamin J. - In: Games 10 (2019) 3, pp. 1-14

Game spaces in which an organism must repeatedly compete with an opponent for mutually exclusive outcomes are critical methodologies for understanding decision-making under pressure. In the non-transitive game rock, paper, scissors (RPS), the only technique that guarantees the lack of...

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Team production and esteem: A dual selves model with belief-dependent preferences

Greiff, Matthias - In: Games 10 (2019) 3, pp. 1-20

reveals that with incomplete information about abilities, workers only choose high effort if esteem is expressed based on …

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