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Rewarding my Self. Self Esteem, Self Determination and Motivations

Bruno, Bruna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The paper presents a model where the self esteem and the self determination mechanisms are explicitly modelled in order to explain how they affect the intrinsic motivation and its impact on individual choices. The aim is to reconcile different explanations (and consequences) of the motivation...

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Self-esteem and Individual Wealth

Chatterjee, Swarn; Finke, Michael; Harness, Nathaniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Self-esteem measures confidence in one’s abilities. Prior literature has shown that higher self-esteem can also affect individual financial decision making through an increased willingness to invest in risky assets and motivation to enhance self image through wealth accumulation. However,...

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Rank expectations, feedback and social hierarchies

Kuhnen, Camelia M.; Tymula, Agnieszka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We develop and test experimentally a theoretical model of the role of self-esteem, generated by private feedback regarding relative performance, on the behavior of agents working on an effort provision task for a flat wage. Agents work harder and expect to rank better when they are told they may...

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Генезис цивитальной организации: идеология нового мира

Kaluzhsky, M.L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The monography considers laws and mechanisms of social development from positions of positivism, dialectic materialism …

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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: The Philosophical Cradle of Marxism

Pillai N., Vijayamohanan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

(1913) remarked, the philosophy of Marxism is materialism. To be more specific, Marxism is both a world view in general and … a view of the society and its progress in particular; that world view is dialectical materialism (a term devised by … social history is the materialist conception of history or historical materialism, as called by Engels. Thus, as Stalin wrote …

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Effects of television advertising on children: with special reference to pakistani urban children

Abideen, Zain Ul; Salaria, Rashid M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

unnecessary purchasing, low nutritional food and materialism. A questionnaire using five point likert scale was administered to … was followed by a Materialism which had Pearson correlation value of 0.260 and significance value of 0.000. Then comes Low … increase in unnecessary purchasing in children with F= 45.747 & P=0.000 and materialism in children with F=30.545 & P=0.000. So …

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From the lab to the field: envelopes, dictators and manners

Stoop, Jan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Results are reported of the first natural field experiment on the dictator game, where subjects are unaware that they participate in an experiment. In contrast to predictions of the standard economic model, dictators show a large degree of pro-social behavior. This paper builds a bridge from the...

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Economic Sociology or Economic Imperialism? The Case of Gary C. Becker

Tittenbrun, Jacek S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The paper is devoted to a critical analysis of a number of key theories by Gary S. Becker. It is commonly believed that his main accomplishment lies in the extension of the scope of an economic analysis to include numerous traditionally considered as non-economic phenomena. This extension,...

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Private monetary transfers and altruism: an empirical investigation on Italian families

Aldieri, Luigi; Fiorillo, Damiano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

financial transfers may be motivated by altruism or by the expectation of future services. For this reason, we select a sample …

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Too smart to be selfish? Measures of intelligence, social preferences, and consistency

Chen, Chia-Ching; Chiu, I-Ming; Smith, John; Yamada, Tetsuji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Although there is an increasing interest in examining the relationship between cognitive ability and economic behavior, less is known about the relationship between cognitive ability and social preferences. We investigate the relationship between strongly incentivized measures of intelligence...

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