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Lying, spying, sabotaging: Procedures and consequences
Chlaß, Nadine; Riener, Gerhard - 2015
Do individuals prefer to compete fairly, or unfairly with an opponent? We study individuals who can choose how to compete for one ex-post nonzero payoff. They can either nudge themselves into a fair set of rules where they have the same information and actions as their opponent, or into unfair...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419476
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Moral emotions and partnership
Bracht, Jürgen; Regner, Tobias - 2011
Actual behaviour is influenced in important ways by moral emotions, for instance guilt or shame (see among others Tangney et al., 2007). Belief-dependant models of social preferences using the framework of psychological games aim to consider such emotions to explain other-regarding behaviour....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281628
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Moral Emotions and Partnership
Bracht, Jürgen; Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Actual behaviour is influenced in important ways by moral emotions, for instance guilt or shame (see, among others, Tangney et al., 2007). Belief-dependant models of social preferences using the framework of psychological games aim to consider such emotions to explain other-regarding behaviour....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144133
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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. Clients are not well informed about the quality of these products. They have to rely on the recommendations of advisors. Incentives of advisors and clients may not be aligned,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281621
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Group reciprocity
Hugh-Jones, David; Leroch, Martin A. - 2010
People exhibit group reciprocity when they retaliate, not against the person who harmed them, but against somebody else … in that person's group. Group reciprocity may be a key motivation behind intergroup conflict. We investigated group … reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. After a group identity manipulation, subjects played a Prisoner's Dilemma with others from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286452
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Why consumers pay voluntarily: Evidence from online music
Regner, Tobias - 2010
reciprocity and guilt appear to be the major drivers for generous voluntary payments. Being inclined to follow social norms is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286483
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The role of reciprocation in social network formation, with an application to blogging
Gaudeul, Alexia; Giannetti, Caterina - 2011
This paper deals with the role of reciprocation in the formation of individuals' social networks, that is to what extent initiating a relation brings about its reciprocation. Following the activity of a panel of bloggers over more than a year, we seek to establish whether bloggers are mainly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286486
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Mediocrity and induced reciprocity
Montinari, Natalia; Nicolò, Antonio; Oexl, Regine - 2012
We report evidence from an experiment where a principal chooses an agent out of two to perform a task for a fixed compensation. The principal's payoff depends on the agent's ex-ante ability and on a non-contractible effort that the agent has to exert once employed. We find that a significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291826
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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 dictator game. In a baseline treatment, subjects play a one shot dictator game. In a voting treatment, subjects are first placed behind a 'veil of ignorance' and vote on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263797
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Social preferences?: Google answers!
Regner, Tobias - 2009
experimental literature we find evidence that tipping is motivated by reciprocity, but also by reputation concerns among frequent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266676