We study the intrapersonal relationship between trust and reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. Reciprocal subjects …

We study how upward communication – from workers to managers – about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of …-assessments can be detrimental to workers' performance. In the controlled environment of a laboratory gift-exchange experiment, our …

prosocial behavior. We conduct a large-scale online experiment where we add the possibility of purchasing insurance to safeguard …

confidence in the ability to learn raises incentives, while confidence in the level of human capital lowers incentives for …

experiment.This difference is higher the higher is the family level of income and the parental education status of the subjects …

relatively. We test three different theories about observed relative overconfidence. The first theory notes that simple … on 1,016 individuals' relative ability judgments about two cognitive tests rejects the Bayesian model. The second theory … might make this belief worse. Our data also reject this prediction. The third theory is that overconfidence is induced by …

broken, and guilt is exacerbated by higher interaction prices. An experiment qualitatively confirms our predictions: (1) most …

they govern only a subset of all socially desirable acts. We use a laboratory experiment to study how the presence and …