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Social lotteries are lotteries that are played along with someone else. The experimental literature indicates that risk attitudes depend on how one’s situation in the safe alternative compares to that of a peer. Evaluation of the risky alternative also depends on whether the lottery gives...
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position vis-á-vis others. Taking a bet can improve oneś position relative to others or threaten it. We present an experiment …
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central in informing behavior in one-shot games. -- Altruism ; Inequality, Empathy ; Theory of Mind ; Behavioral Economics …
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/or roles of a game (Blanco et al. 2011). -- altruism ; dictator games ; moral preferences ; experimenter demand effect …
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experiment whether peopleś fairness ideals vary with respect to changes in the order in which they undertake two allocation tasks …
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conflicts. A first experiment shows that a between-group conflict leads to within-group cooperation and particularly individuals … second experiment reveals that prosocials' contributions to the group-specific or collective good vary as a function of the …
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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 …
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We conduct a modified dictator game in order to analyze the role self-image concerns play in other-regarding behavior. While we generally follow Konow (2000), a cognitive dissonance-based model of other-regarding behavior in dictator games, we relax one of its assumptions as we allow for...
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We augment a standard dictator game to investigate how preferences for an environmental project relate to willingness to limit others' choices. We explore this issue by distinguishing three student groups: economists, environmental economists, and environmental social scientists. We find that...
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We conduct a real-effort task experiment where subjects' performance translates into a donation to a charity. In a … public. In line with the competitive altruism hypothesis, a biology-based explanation for status-seeking behavior, especially … giving ; social-image concerns ; competitive altruism ; experiments ; social status …
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