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Chapter 11 Natural Kantian or ZOO ECONOMICUS ? Evolutionary theories of selfishness and altruism among men and beasts
Bergstrom, Theodore C. - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 771-817). 2006
This paper addresses the question of whether our evolutionary history suggests that humans are likely to be individually selected selfish maximizers or group selected altruists. It surveys models from the literature of evolutionary biology in which groups are formed and dissolved and where the...
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Two-person Bargaining with Lexicographic Altruistic Preferences
Glycopantis, Dionysius - 2019
In bargaining theory a usual assumption is either that of von Neumann-Morgenstern utility functions or that of continuous preferences. Recently we considered in Glycopantis a bargaining model which breaks away from this traditional treatment by employing lexicographic preferences of a...
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COOPERATION IN VISCOUS POPULATIONS - EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE
Mengel, Friederike; Grimm, Veronika - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2007
one's type or group) on cooperation in a standard prisoner's dilemma environment. Subjects can repeatedly choose between … viscosity leads to a sharp increase in overall cooperation rates and in addition positively affects the subjects' intrinsic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005212586
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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
that group identity is a key factor in the explanation of intergroup cooperation and competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419371
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The Problem of Cooperation and Reputation Based Choice
Bergh, Andreas; Engseld, Peter - 2006
The standard method when analyzing the problem of cooperation using evolutionary game theory is to assume that people … illustrate how reputation based choice of opponents can explain both the emergence and deterioration of cooperation. We show that … empirical and experimental evidence of cooperation is consistent with our hypothesis that people behave so as to minimize the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208482
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Choosing Opponents in Prisoners' Dilemma: An Evolutionary Analysis
Engseld, Peter; Bergh, Andreas - 2005
We analyze a cooperation game in an evolutionary environment. Agents make noisy observations of opponents' propensity … two agents agree to play. Pareto optimal cooperation is evolutionarily stable when reputation perfectly reflects … propensity to cooperate. With some reputation noise, there will be at least some cooperation. Individual concern for reputation …
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Do people care about context? Framing effects in dictator games
Dreber, Anna; Ellingsen, Tore; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2011
Many previous experiments document that behavior in multi-person settings responds to the name of the game and the labeling of strategies. Usually these studies cannot tell whether frames affect preferences or beliefs. In this Dictator game study, we investigate whether social framing effects...
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Competing social identities and intergroup discrimination: Evidence from a framed field experiment with high school students in Vietnam
Chan, Ho Fai; Torgler, Benno - 2021
that group identity is a key factor in the explanation of intergroup cooperation and competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012534379
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Increasing Altruistic and Cooperative Behaviour with Simple Moral Nudges
Capraro, Valerio - 2019
The conflict between pro-self and pro-social behaviour is at the core of many key problems of our time, as, for example, the reduction of air pollution and the redistribution of scarce resources. For the well-being of our societies, it is thus crucial to find mechanisms to promote pro-social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012900728
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Social Dilemma Cooperation (Unlike Dictator Game Giving) Is Intuitive for Men As Well As Women
Rand, David G. - 2017
depends on both the individual and the context. For example, non-zero-sum cooperation (e.g. in social dilemmas like the … favor social dilemma cooperation regardless of gender, but only favor DG giving among women. Here I present meta …-analytic evidence in support of this prediction. In 31 studies examining social dilemma cooperation (N=13,447), I find that promoting …
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