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favor and against this assumption and test in our own experiment, whether and which personality factors are useful in …Growing interest in using personality variables in economic research leads to the question whether personality as … measured by psychology is useful to predict economic behavior. Is it reasonable to expect values on personality scales to be …
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within-subject, laboratory experiment, we compare personality measures with and without incentives for misrepresentation …What can employers learn from personality tests when job applicants have incentives to misrepresent themselves? Using a …. Incentivized personality measures are weakly to moderately correlated with non-incentivized measures in most treatments but are …
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Giving in the dictator game has often been interpreted as evidence of other-regarding preferences. We suspect that giving is determined by subjects’ attempts to appear fair in the eyes of recipients and the experimenter. Therefore, we investigate behavior in the dictator game by using the...
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-regarding preferences, differences in dispositions or the impact of personality traits. We conclude that genes and early social learning are …
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-regarding preferences, differences in dispositions or the impact of personality traits. We conclude that genes and early social learning are …
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messages, on their credibility and on actual play. We run an experiment in a three-player coordination game with Pareto ranked …
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model based on cognitive dissonance that focuses on the importance of self-image. An experiment (a dictator game variant …
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If two players of a simultaneous symmetric one-shot prisoner's dilemma hold standard prefer-ences, the fact that choosing the cooperative move imposes harm on a passive outsider is imma-terial. Yet if participants hold social preferences, one might think that they are reticent to impose harm on...
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Starting from Schelling (1960), several game theorists have conjectured that payoff equity might facilitate coordination in normal-form games with multiple equilibria - the more equitable equilibrium might be selected either because fairness makes it focal or because many individuals dislike...
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We examine whether the "Level-k" model of strategic behavior generates reliable cross-game predictions within an individual. We find no correlation in subjects' estimated levels of reasoning across two families of games. Furthermore, estimating a higher level for Ann than Bob in one family of...
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