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What can the Big Five Personality Factors contribute to explain Small-Scale Economic Behavior?
Muller, Julia; Schwieren, Christiane - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326411
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Whom are you talking with? : an experiment on credibility and communication structure
Grandjean, Gilles; Mantovani, Marco; Mauleon, Ana; … - 2014
messages, on their credibility and on actual play. We run an experiment in a three-player coordination game with Pareto ranked …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418867
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Giving versus taking : a "real donation" comparison of warm glow and cold prickle in a context-rich environment
Grossman, Philip Johnson; Eckel, Catherine C. - 2012
we employ a real donationʺ lab experiment in a context-rich environment: contributions go to actual public goods (i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009559239
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Harm on an innocent outsider as a lubricant of cooperation : an experiment
Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009490177
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Punishment fosters efficiency in the minimum effort coordination game
Le Lec, Fabrice; Matthey, Astrid; Rydval, Ondřej - 2012
Using a laboratory experiment, we examine whether informal monetary sanctions can lead to better coordination in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009567105
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Dragon Slaying with Ambiguity : Theory and Experiments
Kelsey, David - 2015
This paper studies the impact of ambiguity in the best shot and weakest link models of public good provision. The models are first analysed theoretically. Then we conduct experiments to study how ambiguity affects behaviour in these games. We test whether subjects' perception of ambiguity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023798
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More than outcomes : a cognitive dissonance-based explanation of other-regarding behavior
Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2011
model based on cognitive dissonance that focuses on the importance of self-image. An experiment (a dictator game variant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009129721
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An Experimental Study on the Effect of Ambiguity in a Coordination Game
Kelsey, David; le Roux, Sara - 2012
We report some experiments conducted to test whether ambiguity influences behavior in a coordination game. We study the behavior of subjects in the presence of ambiguity and attempt to determine whether they prefer to choose an ambiguity safe option. We find that this strategy, which is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014169291
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Reciprocity under moral wiggle room : is it a preference or a constraint?
Regner, Tobias - 2016
We analyze reciprocal behavior when moral wiggle room exists. Dana et al. (2007) show that giving in a dictator game is only partly due to distributional preferences as the giving rate drops when situational excuses for selfish behavior are provided. Our binary trust game closely follows their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576929
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Racial differences in inequality aversion : evidence from real world respondents in the ultimatum game
Griffin, John David; Nickerson, David W.; Wozniak, … - 2011
The distinct historical and cultural experiences of American blacks and whites may influence whether members of those groups perceive a particular exchange as fair. We investigate racial differences in fairness standards using preferences for equal treatment in the ultimatum game, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009233933