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Social Preferences and the Variability of Conditional Cooperation
Baader, Malte; Lee, Kyeongtae; Gaechter, Simon; Sefton, … - 2022
We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first … conditional cooperation is higher when the own gain from defecting is lower and when the loss imposed on the first mover from … role of social preferences in conditional cooperation …
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Cooperation, Competition, and Risk Attitudes : An Intergenerational Field and Laboratory Experiment
Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2021
pension systems. In the light of these labor-force and social concerns, we consider experimentally the comparative behavior of … competing. Third, seniors are typically more cooperative than juniors in a team-production game. Cooperation is highest in … validity of conventional laboratory experiments. In general we do not find strong differences in behavior between workers and …
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Are Happier People Less Judgmental of Other People's Selfish Behaviors? Laboratory Evidence from Trust and Gift Exchange Games
Drouvelis, Michalis - 2013
What determines people's moral judgments of selfish behaviors? Here we study whether people's normative views in trust and gift exchange games, which underlie many situations of economic and social significance, are themselves functions of positive emotions. We used experimental survey methods...
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Performance Pay, Group Selection andGroup Performance
Königstein, Manfred; Ruchala, Gabriele K. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Within a laboratory experiment we investigate a principal-agent game in which agents may,first, self-select into a group task (GT) or an individual task (IT) and, second, choose workeffort. In their choices of task and effort the agents have to consider pay contracts for bothtasks as offered by...
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Contracts as Reference Points : Experimental Evidence
Fehr, Ernst - 2009
In a recent paper, Hart and Moore (2008) introduce new behavioral assumptions that can explain long term contracts and important aspects of the employment relation. However, so far there exists no direct evidence that supports these assumptions and, in particular, Hart and Moore's notion that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765614
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A Behavioral Account of the Labor Market : The Role of Fairness Concerns
Fehr, Ernst - 2008
In this paper, we argue that important labor market phenomena can be better understood if one takes (i) the inherent incompleteness and relational nature of most employment contracts and (ii) the existence of reference-dependent fairness concerns among a substantial share of the population into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768171
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On the Economics and Biology of Trust
Fehr, Ernst - 2008
In recent years, many social scientists have claimed that trust plays an important role in economic and social transactions. Despite its proposed importance, the measurement and the definition of trust seem to be not fully settled, and the identification of the exact role of trust in economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768177
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Sleep Restriction and Time‐Of‐Day Impacts on Simple Social Interaction
Dickinson, David L. - 2016
Simple bargaining games are the foundation of more complex social interactions necessary for healthy relationships and well‐functioning societies. Neuroscience research has shown that high‐level deliberative thinking processes are necessary for social‐decision making - it seems cognitively...
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Legitimacy of Control
Schnedler, Wendelin - 2008
What is the motivational effect of imposing a minimum effort requirement? Agents may no longer exert voluntary effort but merely meet the requirement. Here, we examine how such hidden costs of control change when control is considered legitimate. We study a principal-agent model where control...
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The Rapid Evolution of Homo Economicus : Brief Exposure to Neoclassical Assumptions Increases Self-Interested Behavior
Ifcher, John - 2016
behavior in games often used to measure selfishness: the ultimatum game (UG), dictator game (DG), prisoner's dilemma (PD), and … considerations moves behavior toward traditional economic rationality in UG, PD, and DG. Despite entering the study with higher … to commonplace neoclassical economics assumptions measurably moves behavior toward self-interest …
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