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Personal identity in the dictator game
Aguiar, Fernando; Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Espinosa, María Paz - 2007
This paper aims to analize the role of personal identity in decision making. To this end, it starts by reviewing critically the growing literature on economics and identity. Considering the ambiguities that the concept of social identity poses, our proposal focuses on the concept of personal...
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Facing Your Opponents: Social Identification and Information Feedback in Contests
Mago, Shakun; Samak, Anya; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We experimentally investigate the effect of social identification and information feedback on individual behavior in …. Identifying subjects through photo display decreases wasteful effort. Providing information feedback about others’ effort does not … improved information feedback decreases the heterogeneity of effort. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259314
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Recognizing Contributors: An Experiment on Public Goods
Samek, Anya; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We experimentally investigate the impact of recognizing contributors on public good contributions. We vary recognizing all, highest or lowest contributors. Consistent with previous studies, recognizing all contributors significantly increases contributions relative to the baseline. Recognizing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112683
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Determinants of in-group bias: group affiliation or guilt-aversion?
Güth, Werner; Ploner, Matteo; Regner, Tobias - 2008
In-group favoritism in social dilemma situations is one of the main findings of studies in Social Identity Theory. We investigate what causes the in-group bias: is it due to mere group affiliation or, alternatively, is guilt-aversion a possible explanation? We induce group membership in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263886
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The minority of three-game: An experimental and theoretical analysis
Chmura, Thorsten; Güth, Werner; Pitz, Thomas; … - 2010
We report experimental and theoretical results on the minority of three-game where three players have to choose one of two alternatives independently and the most rewarding alternative is the one chosen by a single player. This coordination game has many asymmetric equilibria in pure strategies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281623
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Do i really want to know? A cognitive dissonance-based explanation of other-regarding behavior
Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281645
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More than outcomes: A cognitive dissonance-based explanation of other-regarding behavior
Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2011
Recent research has cast some doubt on the general validity of outcome-based models of social preferences. We develop a model based on cognitive dissonance that focuses on the importance of self-image. An experiment (a dictator game variant) tests the model. First, we find that subjects whose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281679
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Group identity and discrimination in small markets: Asymmetry of in-group favors
Riener, Gerhard; Schacht, Alexander - 2011
market game. We create group identity through a focal point coordination game. Subjects play a three-person bargaining game …
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Do voluntary payments to advisors improve the quality of financial advice? An experimental sender-receiver game
Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2012
The market for retail financial products (e.g. investment funds or insurances) is marred by information asymmetries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281621
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Reciprocity under moral wiggle room: Is it a preference or a constraint?
Regner, Tobias - 2016
We analyze reciprocal behavior when moral wiggle room exists. Dana et al. (2007) show that giving in a dictator game is only partly due to distributional preferences as the giving rate drops when situational excuses for selfish behavior are provided. Our binary trust game closely follows their...
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