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Does players’ identification affect trust and reciprocity in the lab?
Dubois, D.; Willinger, M.; Blayac, T. - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 1, pp. 303-317
trust and reciprocity in a population where agents play both roles (trustor and trustee). Our experiment consists on three … does not affect the average trust in the population. Trust is significantly higher only when players can build up a … reputation in both roles. We show that the increase in trust is mainly linked to the formation of mutual trust …
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Net-Loss Reciprocation and the Context Dependency of Economic Choices
König, Clemens - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper proposes a novel explanation for the context dependency of individual choices in two-player games. Context dependency refers to the well-established phenomenon that a player, when choosing from a given opportunity set created by the other player’s strategy, chooses differently in...
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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence ? A large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2010
Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, one-shot allocation tasks, allowing us...
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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence - A large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2010
Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a largescale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, oneshot allocation tasks, allowing us...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010571478
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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence - A large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010
Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, one-shot allocation tasks, allowing us...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568487
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The framing of games and the psychology of play
Dufwenberg, Martin; Gächter, Simon; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike - In: Games and Economic Behavior 73 (2011) 2, pp. 459-478
Psychological game theory can provide rational-choice-based framing effects; frames influence beliefs, beliefs influence motivations. We explain this theoretically and explore empirical relevance experimentally. In a 2×2 design of one-shot public good games we show that frames affect subjectʼs...
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Fairness and Accountability: Testing Models of Social Norms in Unequal
Visser, Martine - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2013
We examine behavioural models involved in the provision of public goods when income inequality exists within groups. Our sample consists of individuals from urban and rural South African fishing communities. We find that behaviour observed in unequal groups does not accord with models of...
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Distributive and reciprocal fairness: What can we learn from the heterogeneity of social preferences?
Kamas, Linda; Preston, Anne - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 3, pp. 538-553
-off) and reciprocal fairness (receiving what one is due based on one’s past actions) using dictator, ultimatum, and trust games … participants’ behavior in the ultimatum and trust games. The self-interested and efficiency maximizers make the lowest offers in … trust game. Consistent with the goal of maximizing the sum of payoffs however, efficiency maximizers and compassionate …
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Reciprocity-based Emotions: An Experimental Study of the Effects of Experiencing Positive and Negative Reciprocity
CORICELLI, Giorgio - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 112 (2004) 4, pp. 359-379
reciprocity. The experiment implements sequences of two types of extensive form games called Punishment games and Trust games. The … reciprocal behavior. Results show that the level of trust and punishment are consistent with the view that emotions are involved. …
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The impact of empowering investors on trust and trustworthiness
Kanagaretnam, Kiridaran; Mestelman, Stuart; Khalid … - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 3, pp. 566-577
examine the impact of empowering investors with the right to veto the investee’s profit distribution on trust and … trust by over 30% in both cases. To control for a treatment sequence effect, we conducted the experiment in a reverse order …. We observe a comparable loss in trust when the power to veto is removed. Further analysis of veto decisions indicates …
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