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usually have incomplete information about fairness norms held by the other party - fairness norms that affect the other party …'s willingness to pay (WTP) or willingness to accept (WTA). Importantly, these fairness norms may depend on how strongly the … participants can be divided into three groups corresponding to three different fairness norms: negative types whose WTP and WTA are …
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updated version of paper no 55
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that employee's reciprocity requires a clear assessment of the surplus at stake. …
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In a bribery experiment, we test the hypothesis that distributive fairness considerations make relatively well …
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theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators' punishment is almost exclusively targeted … between different fairness principles. Fairness theories that are based on the assumption that players compare their own … the defectors. Fairness theories assuming that players aim to minimize payoff inequalities cannot explain the fact that …
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induce more 'fairness' on the part of those subsequently chosen to be dictators. In fact, dictators were significantly more …
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reciprocity (rejecting proposals) if an unchosen alternative was costly to the proposer. Second, we find proposers to anticipate …
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Most people tend to equate success with merit, a tendency that is particularly pronounced among conservatives. However, in practice it is exceedingly difficult to discern the relative impact of luck and effort to economic success. Based on a large-scale online study that samples the general US...
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This paper provides an argument for the advantage of a preference for identity-consistent behaviour from an evolutionary point of view. Within a stylised model of social interaction, we show that the development of cooperative social norms is greatly facilitated if the agents of the society...
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Unfair intentions provoke negative reciprocity from others, making their concealment potentially beneficial. This paper … explores whether people hide their unfair intentions from others and how hiding intentions is itself perceived in fairness … successful against the higher expected punishment when cover up is unsuccessful. In an attempt to better understand fairness …
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