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Evolution of "pay-it-forward" in the presence of the temptation to free-ride
Uchida, Satoshi; Sasaki, Tatsuya; Yamamoto, Hitoshi; … - In: Games 15 (2024) 23, pp. 1-15
Paying it forward" is a behavior in which people help someone else because they were helped in the past. Although experimental evidence exists that indicates that real human beings often "pay-it-forward" even in the face of free-rider risks, the theoretical basis for the evolution of this...
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Gender differences in the response to decision power and responsibility : framing effects in a dictator game
Bruttel, Lisa Verena; Stolley, Florian - In: Games 9 (2018) 2/28, pp. 1-16
This paper studies the effects of two different frames on decisions in a dictator game. Before making their allocation decision, dictators read a short text. Depending on the treatment, the text either emphasizes their decision power and freedom of choice or it stresses their responsibility for...
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The role of framing, inequity and history in a corruption game : some experimental evidence
Chaudhuri, Ananish; Paichayontvijit, Tirnud; Sbai, Erwann - In: Games 7 (2016) 2, pp. 1-24
We investigate the role of framing, inequity in initial endowments and history in shaping behavior in a corrupt transaction by extending the one-shot bribery game introduced by Cameron et al. (2009) to a repeated game setting. We find that the use of loaded language significantly reduces the...
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The impact of order effects on the framing of trust and reciprocity behaviors
Bayat, Davood; Mohamadpour, Hadi; Fang, Huihua; Xu, Pengfei - In: Games 14 (2023) 2, pp. 1-14
Trust and reciprocity have paramount importance in cooperative relationships. The influence of psychological effects such as framing and anchoring on trust and reciprocity has been investigated; however, the impact of an order effect on them is still unexplored. The goal of our study was to...
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Team production and esteem : a dual selves model with belief-dependent preferences
Greiff, Matthias - In: Games 10 (2019) 3/33, pp. 1-20
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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The effect of disclosing identities in a socially incentivized public good game
Butz, Britta; Harbring, Christine - In: Games 12 (2021) 2, pp. 1-31
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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An experimental investigation of trusting behaviour
Mazzoni, Clelia; Sbriglia, Patrizia - In: Games 13 (2022) 6, pp. 1-11
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 …
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The influence of priming on reference states
Matthey, Astrid - In: Games 1 (2010) 1, pp. 34-52
outcomes of either the individual herself or her reference group. The experiment described in this paper suggests that, in …
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Bimodal bidding in experimental all-pay auctions
Ernst, Christiane; Thöni, Christian - In: Games 4 (2013) 4, pp. 608-623
We report results from experimental first-price, sealed-bid, all-pay auctions for a good with a common and known value. We observe bidding strategies in groups of two and three bidders and under two extreme information conditions. As predicted by the Nash equilibrium, subjects use mixed...
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Evolution of cooperation with peer punishment under prospect theory
Uchida, Satoshi; Yamamoto, Hitoshi; Okada, Isamu; … - In: Games 10 (2019) 1/11, pp. 1-18
Social dilemmas are among the most puzzling issues in the biological and social sciences. Extensive theoretical efforts have been made in various realms such as economics, biology, mathematics, and even physics to figure out solution mechanisms to the dilemma in recent decades. Although...
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