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Do reciprocators exploit or resist moral wiggle room? : an experimental analysis

Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2015

By now there is substantial experimental evidence that people make use of "moral wiggle room" (Dana et al., 2007), that is, they tend to exploit moral excuses for selfish behavior. However, this evidence is limited to dictator games. In our experiment, a trust game variant, we study whether...

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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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Thinking in Chinese vs. thinking in English : social preference and risk attitudes of multicultural minds

Li, King King - 2010

This paper investigates whether language priming activates different cultural identities and norms associated with the language communicated; bilingual subjects are given Chinese instructions in the Chinese treatment and English instructions in the English treatment. The main findings are: (1) in...

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Other-regarding behaviour : testing guilt- and reciprocity-based models

Regner, Tobias; Harth, Nicole S. - 2010

returned. -- social preferences ; other-regarding behaviour ; experiments ; trust game ; guilt aversion ; beliefs … beliefs and actions into the utility function. We test the robustness of two types of intentions-based models (guilt aversion … and reciprocity). In addition to incentivised elicitation of first- and second-order action beliefs, we assess …

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Moral emotions and partnership

Bracht, Juergen; Regner, Tobias - 2011

-regarding behaviour ; experiments ; psychological game theory ; guilt aversion ; shame ; beliefs ; emotions ; partnership … emotions to belief-dependant models in economics. We find that - in addition to the positive effect of second-order beliefs and …

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More than outcomes : a cognitive dissonance-based explanation of other-regarding behavior

Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2011

-regarding behavior ; self-image ; experiments ; cognitive dissonance ; social norms ; normative beliefs ; expectations …

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Revealed notions of distributive justice II : experimental evidence

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013

experiments by a combination of selfishness and concerns for distributive justice. Most participants conform very well with the … therefore demonstrates that most participants' behaviour in dictator experiments can be explained by a combination of …

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Revealed notions of distributive justice I : theory

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013

recover individual notions of distributive justice from data collected in appropriately designed experiments. "Dictator games … planner" experiments or experiments under a "veil of ignorance" (Rawls 1971) can be used to recover larger parts of the notion … necessarily incentive-compatible, and to recover a greater part of an individual's preference relation in dictator experiments …

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Preferences-dependent learning in the Centipede game

Gamba, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2015

We study experimentally whether heterogeneity of behavior in the Centipede game can be interpreted as the result of a learning process of individuals with different preference types (more and less pro-social) and coarse information regarding the opponent's past behavior. We manipulate the...

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An ultimatum game with multidimensional response strategies

Güth, Werner; Levati, M. Vittoria; Nardi, Chiara; … - 2014

We enrich the choice task of responders in ultimatum games by allowing them to independently decide whether to collect what is offered to them and whether to destroy what the proposer demanded. Such a multidimensional response format intends to cast further light on the motives guiding responder...

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