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Cooperation and Competition in Intergenerational Experiments in the Field and the Laboratory
Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2010
There is economic pressure towards the postponement of the retirement age, but employers are still reluctant to employ older workers. We investigate the comparative behavior of juniors and seniors in experiments conducted both onsite with the employees of two large firms and in a conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197893
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Social Preferences and Lying Aversion in Children
Maggian, Valeria - 2015
While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample of children aged between 7 and 14, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034454
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Norm Enforcement in Social Dilemmas. An Experiment with Police Commissioners
Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2014
Do individuals trained in law enforcement punish or reward differently from typical student subjects? We analyze norm enforcement behavior of newly appointed police commissioners in both a Voluntary Contribution Mechanism game and a Common Pool Resource game. Our experimental design includes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014145354
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Social Preferences and Lying Aversion in Children
Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2014
While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample of children aged between 7 and 14, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014150727
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Norm Enforcement in Social Dilemmas : An Experiment with Police Commissioners
Dickinson, David L. - 2014
Do individuals trained in law enforcement punish or reward differently from typical student subjects? We analyze norm enforcement behavior of newly appointed police commissioners in both a Voluntary Contribution Mechanism game and a Common Pool Resource game. Our experimental design includes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052702
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Norm Enforcement in Social Dilemmas : An Experiment with Police Commissioners
Dickinson, David L. - 2014
Do individuals trained in law enforcement punish or reward differently from typical student subjects? We analyze norm enforcement behavior of newly appointed police commissioners in both a Voluntary Contribution Mechanism game and a Common Pool Resource game. Our experimental design includes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053497
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Social Preferences and Lying Aversion in Children
Maggian, Valeria - 2014
While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample of children aged between 7 and 14, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061440
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Dishonesty as a Collective-Risk Social Dilemma
Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2022
We study cheating as a collective-risk social dilemma in a group setting in which individuals are asked to report their actual outcomes. Misreporting their outcomes increases the individual’s earnings but when the sum of claims in the group reaches a certain threshold, a risk of collective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264592
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Dishonesty as a Collective-Risk Social Dilemma
Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2022
We study cheating as a collective-risk social dilemma in a group setting in which individuals are asked to report their actual outcomes. Misreporting their outcomes increases the individual's earnings but when the sum of claims in the group reaches a certain threshold, a risk of collective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264957
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Emotions, sanctions and cooperation
Joffily, Mateus; Masclet, David; Noussair, Charles N.; … - 2011
We use skin conductance responses and self-reports of hedonic valence to study the emotional basis of cooperation and …. The application of sanctions activates a virtuous emotional circle that accompanies cooperation. Emotionally aroused … punished, and increase their subsequent level of cooperation. The outcome is an increased level of contribution that becomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278702