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explained by avoiding cognitive dissonance as in Konow (2000). Our experiment's choice data is in line with this approach. In …
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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...
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We study time preferences in a real-effort experiment with a one-month horizon. We report that two thirds of choices … reversal ; risk ; time inconsistency ; real-effort experiment …
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Using a laboratory experiment, we examine whether informal monetary sanctions can lead to better coordination in a …
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may be sensitive to subtle details of the experimental design. -- Utility ; reference state ; attitudes ; priming …In economic theory, utility depends on past, present and future outcomes. The experiment described in this paper … suggests that utility also depends on people’s attitudes, and that it can easily be manipulated through these attitudes. The …
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(Pay-What-You-Want, You-Can, It-Is-Worth-To-You, You-Believe-Is-Fair). The results of our online experiment with 602 …
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We test the implications of ambiguity aversion in a principal-agent problem with multiple agents. When output distributions are uncertain, models of ambiguity aversion suggest that tournaments may become more attractive than independent wage contracts, in contrast to the case where output...
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no-punishment network. -- public goods ; experiment ; punishment ; cooperation ; networks …
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wages. Using a survey experiment among international students in Germany, I investigate whether information on the monetary …
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We study in an experiment whether humans prefer to depend on decisions of other humans (social uncertainty) or states … other humans. This is the first experiment that studies social uncertainty that does not derive from a strategic situation …
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