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This paper investigates the driving forces behind informal sanctions in cooperation games and the extent to which … 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 …
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This paper experimentally explores how the enforcement of cooperative behavior in a social dilemma is facilitated through institutional as well as emotional mechanisms. Recent studies emphasize the importance of negatively valued emotions, such as anger, which motivate individuals to punish free...
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Conditions for the emergence of cooperation in a spatial common-pool resource game are studied. This combines in a … three strategies: defection, cooperation, and enforcement. Individual payoffs are affected by both global factors, namely …
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This paper contributes to the ongoing methodological debate on context-free versus in-context presentation of experimental tasks. We report an experiment using the paradigm of a bribery experiment. In one condition, the task is presented in a typical bribery context, the other one uses abstract...
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for cooperation, this article proposes a novel theory in which the emergence of norms can be understood as a bargaining … process in which normative conflicts explain the finally emerging norm. The theory is tested with a dynamical experiment on … co-exist. The findings are discussed with respect to the integration of sociological conflict theory with the bargaining …
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fairness ideas of equity regarding the contributions but not regarding the earnings. Individuals with different characteristics …
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and impact of norms with regard to coordination and cooperation. However, the issue of norm-related conflict deserves more … attention. We develop a general theory of normative conflict by differentiating between two different kinds of conflict. The …
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fairness ideas of equity regarding contribution possibilities but not regarding earnings. Individuals with different …
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fairness perceptions affect the reaction to punishment and whether this effect is consistent across repeated play and role … behavior depending on their fairness perceptions, their experienced emotions, and their interaction with responders. We find … that fairness plays an important role in the behavior of proposers. Specifically, deviations from a perceived fairness norm …
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the fairness and unfairness of allocations in three different scenarios (a Dictator game, an Ultimatum game, and a Trust … same session we elicit again their principles regarding the fairness and unfairness of allocations in the same three … norm in its favor and the weak side agrees: Stated fairness is a compromise with power. Second, in most situations …
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