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Social closeness can help, harm and be irrelevant in solving pure coordination problems
Gächter, Simon; Starmer, Chris; Thöni, Christian; … - 2021
Experimental research has shown that ordinary people often perform remarkably well in solving coordination games that involve no conflicts of interest. While most experiments in the past studied such coordination games among socially distant anonymous players, here we study behaviour in a set of...
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Individual-level loss aversion in riskless and risky choices
Gächter, Simon; Johnson, Eric J.; Herrmann, Andreas; … - 2007
endowment effect experiment by eliciting both WTA and WTP from each of our 360 subjects (randomly selected customers of a car …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003502465
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Measuring "group cohesion" to reveal the power of social relationships in team production
Gächter, Simon; Starmer, Chris; Tufano, Fabio - 2022
We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We operationalize measurement of group cohesion, adapting the "oneness scale" from psychology. A series of experiments, including a pre-registered replication, reveals strong positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480559
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The importance of peers for compliance with norms of fair sharing
Gächter, Simon; Gerhards, Leonie; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2015
observed to act in isolation from each other. In this paper we use a large-scale dictator game experiment (N = 850) to show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434301
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Living in two neighborhoods : social interactions in the LAB
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2003
social interaction effects. Testing for such effects raises severe identification problems. We conduct an experiment that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507945
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Eye movements in strategic choice
Stewart, Neil; Gächter, Simon; Noguchi, Takao; … - In: Journal of behavioral decision making 29 (2016) 2/3, pp. 137-156
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The importance of peers for compliance with norms of fair sharing
Gächter, Simon; Gerhards, Leonie; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2015
observed to act in isolation from each other. In this paper we use a large-scale dictator game experiment (N = 850) to show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449225
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Conducting interactive experiments online
Arechar, Antonio A.; Gächter, Simon; Molleman, Lucas - In: Experimental economics : a journal of the Economic … 21 (2018) 1, pp. 99-131
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941815
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Reputation or reciprocity? : an experimental investigation
Gächter, Simon; Falk, Armin - 2001
Recent evidence highlights the importance of social norms in many economic relations. However, many of these relationships are long-term and provide repeated game incentives for performance. We experimentally investigate interaction effects of reciprocity and repeated game incentives in two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398911
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Conducting interactive experiments online
Arechar, Antonio A.; Gächter, Simon; Molleman, Lucas - 2017
. To this end, we conduct a repeated public goods experiment with and without punishment using samples from the laboratory … and the online platform Amazon Mechanical Turk. We chose to replicate this experiment because it is long and logistically … reducing dropout and show that, for our case study, dropouts are exogenous to the experiment. We conclude that data quality for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602758