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Incomplete information about social preferences explains equal division and delay in bargaining

Kohler, Stefan - In: Games 3 (2012) 3, pp. 119-137

Two deviations of alternating-offer bargaining behavior from economic theory are observed together, yet have been studied separately. Players who could secure themselves a large surplus share if bargainers were purely self-interested incompletely exploit their advantage. Delay in agreement...

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Inequalities between others do matter : evidence from multiplayer dictator games

Macro, David; Weesie, Jeroen - In: Games 7 (2016) 2, pp. 1-23

Social motives are frequently used to explain deviations from selfishness in non-strategic settings such as the Dictator Game. Previous research has mainly focused on two-player games; the workings of social motives in multiplayer Dictator Games are less well understood. A core feature of...

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When two become one : how group mergers affect solidarity

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

group members is affected when groups are randomly merged and increase in size. Group mergers put social norms that are … prevailing in previously small groups to the test as new team members may not share the same norms and values. I present results … groups that stay in the same constellation throughout the experiment. Moreover, in merged groups, high helping norms are more …

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Spite and Reciprocity in Auctions

Nishimura, Naoko; Cason, Timothy N.; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; … - In: Games 2 (2011) 3, pp. 365-411

The paper presents a complete information model of bidding in second price sealed-bid and ascending-bid (English) auctions, in which potential buyers know the unit valuation of other bidders and may spitefully prefer that their rivals earn a lower surplus. Bidders with spiteful preferences...

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A Choice Prediction Competition for 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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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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A note on binary strategy-proof social choice functions

Basile, Achille; De Simone, Anna; Tarantino, Ciro - In: Games 13 (2022) 6, pp. 1-19

Let 𝝫𝑛 be the set of the binary strategy-proof social choice functions referred to a group of n voters who are allowed to declare indifference between the alternatives. We provide a recursive way to obtain the set 𝝫𝑛+1 from the set 𝝫𝑛. Computing the cardinalities |𝝫𝑛|...

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When efficiency requires arbitrary discrimination : theoretical and experimental analysis of equilibrium selection

Güth, Werner; Otsubo, Hironori - In: Games 14 (2023) 5, pp. 1-15

Institutions may rely on fundamental principles, e.g., of legal philosophy, but may also have evolved according to institutional fitness, as gauged by a society's well-being. In our stylized framework where two fundamental principles, equality and efficiency, conflict with each other, one of the...

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Do I Really Want to Know? A Cognitive Dissonance-Based Explanation of Other-Regarding Behavior

Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - In: Games 2 (2011) 1, pp. 114-135

We investigate to what extent genuine social preferences can explain observed other-regarding behavior. In a dictator game variant subjects can choose whether to learn about the consequences of their choice for the receiver. We find that a majority of subjects showing other-regarding behavior...

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Modeling Inequity Aversion in a Dictator Game with Production

Rodriguez-Lara, Ismael; Moreno-Garrido, Luis - In: Games 3 (2012) 4, pp. 138-149

We expand upon the previous models of inequity aversion of Fehr and Schmidt [1], and Frohlich <em>et al.</em> [2], which assume that dictators get disutility if the final allocation of surplus deviates from the equal split (egalitarian principle) or from the subjects' production (libertarian principle)....

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