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Cooperation problems are at the heart of many everyday situations. In this paper, we propose a very simple and light-handed mechanism to sustain cooperation and test its performance in a rich laboratory environment. The mechanism moderates cooperation by controlling experiences, more...
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Cooperation problems are at the heart of many everyday situations. In this paper, we propose a very simple and light-handed mechanism to sustain cooperation and test its performance in a rich laboratory environment. The mechanism moderates cooperation by controlling experiences, more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281841
counsel or prosecutor leads to role induced bias even if people are highly motivated to give unbiased judgments. In line with … parallel constraint satisfaction models for legal decision making, findings indicate that role induced bias is driven by … seem to stabilize interpretations, and people do not correct for this bias. Implications for legal procedure are briefly …
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typically not based on ad hoc calculation. Rather, individuals rely on situational heuristics for the purpose. This paper does … two things: it offers a model of heuristics, in the interest of making behaviour that is guided by heuristics comparable …
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Legal realists expect prosecutors to be selfish. If they get the defendant convicted, this helps them advance their careers. If the odds of winning on the main charge are low, prosecutors have a second option. They can exploit the ambiguity of legal doctrine and charge the defendant for vaguely...
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Customary law has been criticized from very different angles. Rational choice theorists claim that what looks like custom is nothing but self-interest. Positivists doubt that anything beyond consent assumes the force of law. In this paper, we adopt an experimental approach to test these claims....
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Originally, behavioral law and economics was an exercise in exploring the implications of key findings from behavioral economics (and psychology) for the analysis and reform of legal institutions. Yet as the new discipline matures, it increasingly replaces foreign evidence by fresh evidence,...
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Privacy law relies on the argument that consent does not entail any relevant impediments for the liberty of the consenting individual. Challenging this argument, we experimentally investigate whether consent to the publication of personal information in cyberspace entails self-coercion on a...
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their present-bias (nai͏̈ve) procrastinate more than individuals who are aware of it (sophisticated) or are not present …
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