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Giving in dictator games: Experimenter demand effect or preference over the rules of the game?
Chlaß, Nadine; Moffatt, Peter G. - 2012
Traditionally, giving in dictator games was assumed to signal preferences over others' payoffs. To date, several studies find that dictator game giving breaks down under conditions designed to increase dictators' anonymity or if an option to take money obscures the purpose of the task. Giving is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291834
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Charitable giving and intermediation
Chlaß, Nadine; Gangadharan, Lata; Jones, Kristy - 2015
compare charitable giving in an experiment with and without intermediation. Different donor types emerge: 41 per-cent of all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419474
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Unraveling fairness in simple games? The role of empathy and theory of mind
Artinger, Florian; Exadaktylos, Filippos; Koppel, Hannes; … - 2010
Economists have been theorizing that other-regarding preferences influence decision making. Yet, what are the corresponding psychological mechanisms that inform these preferences in laboratory games? Empathy and Theory of Mind (ToM) are dispositions considered to be essential in social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269745
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Revealed notions of distributive justice I: Theory
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013
We provide a framework to decompose preferences into a notion of distributive justice and a selfishness part and to recover individual notions of distributive justice from data collected in appropriately designed experiments. "Dictator games" with varying transfer rates used in Andreoni and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435146
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Revealed notions of distributive justice II: Experimental evidence
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013
We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a "social planner" or a "veil of ignorance …" experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion … Agreement and Symmetry axioms proposed in BHH; we find that for 80% of participants the evidence is very strong. The experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435150
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Revealed Notions of Distributive Justice I: Theory
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We provide a framework to decompose preferences into a notion of distributive justice and a selfishness part and to recover individual notions of distributive justice from data collected in appropriately designed experiments. "Dictator games" with varying transfer rates used in Andreoni and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884470
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Unraveling Fairness in Simple Games? The Role of Empathy and Theory of Mind
Artinger, Florian; Exadaktylos, Fillipos; Sääksvuori, … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Economists have been theorizing that other-regarding preferences influence decision making. Yet, what are the corresponding psychological mechanisms that inform these preferences in laboratory games? Empathy and Theory of Mind (ToM) are dispositions considered to be essential in social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511334
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Giving in Dictator Games - Experimenter Demand Effect or Preference over the Rules of the Game?
Chlaß, Nadine; Moffatt, Peter G. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Traditionally, giving in dictator games was assumed to signal preferences over others' payoffs. To date, several studies find that dictator game giving breaks down under conditions designed to increase dictators' anonymity or if an option to take money obscures the purpose of the task. Giving is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010559026
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Revealed Notions of Distributive Justice II: Experimental Evidence
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a "social planner" or a "veil of ignorance …" experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion … Agreement and Symmetry axioms proposed in BHH; we find that for 80% of participants the evidence is very strong. The experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700372
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Voting on a sharing norm in a dictator game
Vanberg, Christoph - 2007
I conduct an experiment to assess whether majority voting on a nonbinding sharing norm affects subsequent behavior in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263797