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aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decision and the most inequality averse player makes the largest concessions. Finally, social image has little influence except …
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Several studies show that social image concerns stimulate pro-social behavior. We study a setting in which there is uncertainty about which action is pro-social. Then, the quest for a better social image can potentially conflict with genuinely pro-social behavior. This conflict can induce "bad"...
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Several studies show that social image concerns stimulate pro-social behavior. We study a setting in which there is uncertainty about which action is pro-social. Then, the quest for a better social image can potentially conflict with genuinely pro-social behavior. This conflict can induce...
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prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …
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prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …
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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...
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another player (e.g., trustor's endowment in a Trust game). Treatments vary whether trustees can condition their decision on … the belief of a co-player who is payoff-vulnerable and/or endowment-vulnerable, or not vulnerable at all, and the decision …-player's vulnerability and to the decision rights of the co-player. Guilt is activated even absent vulnerability of the co-player whose …
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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...
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We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...
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is an increase in subjects' attention to the decision, rather than their ability to resist the temptation to get money …
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