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When being wasteful appears better than feeling wasteful

Zultan, Ro'i; Bar-Hillel, Maya; Guy, Nitsan - 2010

"Waste not want not" expresses our culture's aversion to waste. "I could have gotten the same thing for less" is a sentiment that can diminish pleasure in a transaction. We study people's willingness to "pay" to avoid this spoiler. In one scenario, participants imagined they were looking for a...

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Explaining gender differences in competitiveness : gender-task stereotypes

Große, Niels D.; Riener, Gerhard - 2010

able to explain a large part of the under-representation of women in tournament like environments. We conduct an experiment …-sex groups given different incentive schemes. Furthermore, we report the results of a framed field experiment, where we explore a … our interpretation. -- Competition, piece rate ; revenue sharing ; gender-task stereotype ; experiment …

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Concession bargaining : an experimental comparison of protocols and time horizons

Alberti, Federica; Fischer, Sven; Güth, Werner; … - 2013

Concessions try to avoid conflict in bargaining and can finally lead to an agreement. Although they usually are seen as unfolding in time, concessions can also be studied in normal form or by conditioning only on failure of earlier agreement attempts. We experimentally compare three protocols of...

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Moral distance and moral motivations in dictator games

Aguiar, Fernando (contributor); … - 2007

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Doing good with other people's money: A charitable giving experiment with students in environmental sciences and economics

Carlsson, Frederik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina; … - 2010

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...