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Male and female competitive behavior: experimental evidence
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, … - 2005
such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267595
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Feedback and Incentives: Experimental Evidence
Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through the production period, and continuously updated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703358
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Male and Female Competitive Behavior: Experimental Evidence
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703512
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The Spillover Effects of Affirmative Action on Competitiveness and Unethical Behavior
Banerjee, Ritwik; Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Villeval, … - 2016
We conduct an artefactual field experiment to examine various spillover effects of Affirmative Action policies in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653122
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Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation? On the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Altruism
Fehr, Ernst; Henrich, Joseph - 2003
In recent years a large number of experimental studies have documented the existence of strong reciprocity among humans. Strong reciprocity means that people willingly repay gifts and punish the violation of cooperation and fairness norms even in anonymous one-shot encounters with genetically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262063
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Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation? On the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Altruism
Fehr, Ernst; Henrich, Joseph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
In recent years a large number of experimental studies have documented the existence of strong reciprocity among humans. Strong reciprocity means that people willingly repay gifts and punish the violation of cooperation and fairness norms even in anonymous one-shot encounters with genetically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761704
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The Effect of Self-Awareness and Competition on Dishonesty
Çıbık, Ceren Bengü; Sgroi, Daniel - 2021
We provide the first investigation of the relationship between self-awareness and dis- honesty in a multi-wave pre …-registered experiment with 1,260 subjects. In the first wave we vary the level of awareness of subjects' past dishonesty and explore the … of our core tasks to further explore the interactions between self-awareness, (dis)honesty and competition. We also test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597402
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Advanced Counter-Biasing
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Benscheidt, Kevin - 2019
Viewed through the lens of the prominent two-system model of decision making, behavioral economics is seen as studying the tension between impulses (System 1) and rationality (System 2). In this context, two strategies, "de-biasing" informing agents of their biases and "counter-biasing" using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005954
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Further from the Truth: The Impact of In-Person, Online, and mTurk on Dishonest Behavior
Dickinson, David L.; McEvoy, David M. - 2020
take place remotely, which motivates our investigation of how in-person versus online environments impact honesty. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322485
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Strategic ignorance in bargaining
Conrads, Julian; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2011
than weakness. We test and confirm Schelling's conjecture in a simple take-it-or-leave bargaining experiment where the …In his classic article An Essay on Bargaining Schelling (1956) argues that ignorance might actually be strength rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282588