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Explaining gender differences in competitiveness : gender-task stereotypes
Große, Niels D.; Riener, Gerhard - 2010
our interpretation. -- Competition, piece rate ; revenue sharing ; gender-task stereotype ; experiment …Gender-specific patterns of self-selection into competitive and cooperative environments may have multiple reasons. One … comes to preferences regarding competition. We take a different point of view and claim that gender-task stereotypes are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944236
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"The devil is in the details" : sex differences in simple bargaining games
León-Mejía, Ana (contributor); Miller, Luis M. (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003554017
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Charitable giving among females and males : an empirical test of the competitive altruism hypothesis
Böhm, Robert; Regner, Tobias - 2012
We conduct a real-effort task experiment where subjects' performance translates into a donation to a charity. In a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009567083
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On whom would I want to depend; Humans or nature?
Farjam, Mike - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392605
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Psychology and economics rather than psychology versus economics : cultural differences but no barriers!
Brandstätter, Hermann; Güth, Werner; Kliemt, Hartmut - 2008
During the last three decades the ascent of behavioral economics clearly helped to bring down artificial disciplinary boundaries between psychology and economics. Noting that behavioral economics seems still under the spell of the rational choice tradition and, indirectly, of behaviorism we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809939
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Overweighting private information : three measures, one bias?
Fellner, Gerlinde; Krügel, Sebastian - 2010
on the well-established "miscalibration" bias. We find no gender differences in overconfidence for our measures except …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008669956
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(Non-) behavioral economics : a programmatic assessment
Güth, Werner (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003593213
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Imperfect recall and time inconsistencies : an experimental test of the absentminded driver “paradox”
Levati, M. Vittoria; Uhl, Matthias; Zultan, Ro'i - 2010
. -- imperfect recall ; absentmindedness ; dynamic inconsistency ; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003980493
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Behavioral social learning
March, Christoph; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - 2009
We revisit the economic models of social learning by assuming that individuals update their beliefs in a non-Bayesian way. Individuals either overweigh or underweigh (in Bayesian terms) their private information relative to the public information revealed by the decisions of others and each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003924223
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Challenging the intrapersonal empathy gap : an experiment with self-commitment power
Uhl, Matthias - 2011
Loewenstein (1996, 2005) identifies an intrapersonal empathy gap. In the respective experiments, subjects make choices with delayed consequences. When entering the state where these consequences would unfold, they get the possibility to revise their initial choice. Revisions are more substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008990904