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How does it feel to be part of the minority? : impacts of perspective taking on prosocial behavior
Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol; Rozo, Sandra V. - 2021
documentary about Venezuelans crossing the border on foot. Relative to a control group, both treatments increased altruism towards …
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The strength of weak leaders : an experiment on social influence and social learning in teams
Buechel, Berno; Klößner, Stefan; Lochmüller, Martin; … - 2018
We investigate how the selection process of a leader affects team performance with respect to social learning. We use a lab experiment in which an incentivized guessing task is repeated in a star network with the leader at the center. Leader selection is either based on competence, on...
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Competing social identities and intergroup discrimination : evidence from a framed field experiment with high school students in Vietnam
Tam Kiet Vuong; Chan, Ho Fai; Torgler, Benno - 2021
We conducted a framed field experiment to explore a situation where individuals have potentially competing social identities to understand how group identification and socialization affect ingroup favoritism and out-group discrimination. The Dictator Game and the Trust Game were conducted in...
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Rotten kids with bad intentions
Netzer, Nick; Schmutzler, Armin - 2010 - Rev. version January 2010
rather than positive altruism. In a large class of two-stage games that includes principal-agent and gift-giving games, this …
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Meaningful talk
Streb, Jorge M.; Torrens, Gustavo - 2015
This paper develops a semiotic-inferential model of verbal communication for incomplete information games: a language is seen as a set of conventional signs that point to types, and the credibility of a message depends on the strategic context. Formally, there is an encoding-decoding step where...
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Trust and manipulation in social networks
Förster, Manuel; Mauleon, Ana; Vannetelbosch, Vincent J. - 2014
We investigate the role of manipulation in a model of opinion formation. Agents repeatedly communicate with their neighbors in the social network, can exert effort to manipulate the trust of others, and update their opinions about some common issue by taking weighted averages of neighbors'...
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Trustful voters, trustworthy politicians : a survey experiment on the influence of social media in politics
Aruguete, Natalia; Calvo, Ernesto; Scartascini, Carlos G.; … - 2021
test the effect of social media on trust and trustworthiness. Survey respondents alternate as agents (politicians) and … for a negative effect of uncivil partisan discourse on trust behavior and null results on trustworthiness. The negative …
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Whom can you trust? : reputation and cooperation in networks
King, Maia - 2017
Community enforcement is an important device for sustaining efficiency in some repeated games of cooperation. We investigate cooperation when information about players' reputations spreads to their future partners through links in a social network that connects them. We find that information...
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Transparency and trust in government : evidence from a survey experiment
Alessandro, Martin; Lagomarsino, Bruno Cardinale; … - 2019
Does providing information improve citizens' perception about government transparency? Does all information matter the same for shaping perceptions about the government? This paper addresses these questions in the context of an online randomized survey experiment conducted in Argentina. Results...
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Individual characteristics and behavior in repeated games : an experimental study
Davis, Douglas; Ivanov, Asen; Korenok, Oleg - 2014
of individual characteristics that are popular in economics: risk attitude, time preference, trust, trustworthiness …, altruism, strategic skills in one-shot matrix games, compliance with first-order stochastic dominance, ability to plan ahead …, and gender. We do find some systematic relationships. A subject's patience, gender, altruism, and compliance with first …
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