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the individual and thereby assessing the limits of these fairness concerns. This study reports on Trust game experiments … by changing to an unfair allocation. This modification appeared to make the trust aspect more salient which can explain a … relatively strong consistency between trust behavior and answers to attitudinal trust questions. …
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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...
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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
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/10008462709
We report on ultimatum game experiments conducted with same-age as well as mixed-age groups of Asian adolescents and adults. The findings indicate that compared with adults, adolescents make significantly larger offers to adult responders and are less likely to reject. Chinese subjects are found...
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We study the intrapersonal relationship between trust and reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. Reciprocal subjects … trust significantly more than selfish ones. This finding raises questions about theories of social preferences which predict … that "fairer" players should trust less. …
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We examine experimentally two different types of trust: trust in another party’s cooperation and trust in ability. In …
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This paper examines whether trust is an investment decision under uncertainty, based on the expectation of … trustworthiness, and whether trustworthiness is reciprocity, conditional on one?s counterpart?s behavior. In trust experiments in … Russia, South Africa and the United States, two thirds of the subjects who trust do not expect trust to pay monetarily. We …
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An extensive literature on reputation signaling has focused on the desire for positive reputation. In our paper we provide field and lab evidence that some individuals are averse to any form of reputation; this aversion correlates with gender in a prosocial setting. We formalize our hypotheses...
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We investigate whether a pure framing has any effect on the decisions made in a dictator game. We run a between subject dictator game with a giving and a taking frame whilst keeping the strategy space the same. Complying with the literature we find no overall difference in the amount allocated...
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