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One of the key issues for understanding reciprocity is how people evaluate the kindness of an action. In this paper we … to extrinsic motivation. Our results indicate that reciprocity is significantly stronger when extrinsic motivation can be … action matters for its perceived kindness and, as a consequence, for reciprocity. …
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This paper presents an experimental analysis of the role of out comes and intentions for fair behavior. We consider a symmetric version of the gift-exchange game in a 2x2 design with two treatment variables: intentionality (¯rst mover's choice is either intentional or randomly determined) and...
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We experimentally investigate reference group formation and the impact of social comparisons in a three-player ultimatum game. The players compete in a real-effort task for the role of the proposer. The role of the responder is randomly allocated to one of the other two participants. The third...
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This paper investigates experimentally the effects of arousing content on viewing choices and satisfaction in television consumption. We test the hypothesis that the portrayal of arousing content combines high attraction and low satisfaction and is thus responsible for suboptimal choices. In our...
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We investigate reference group formation and the impact of social comparisons on ultimatum bargaining using a laboratory experiment. Three individuals compete in a real-e¤ort task for the role of the proposer in a three-player ultimatum game. The role of the responder is randomly allocated. The...
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: social indirect reciprocity is indeed found to be signif- icantly stronger when strategic motivations cannot be ruled out. We …
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This paper reports the results of an experiment aimed at investigating the link between empathy, anticipated guilt and pro-social behavior. In particular we test the hypothesis that empathy modulates the anticipatory effect of guilt in bargaining situations and, more specifically, that it...
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Intention-based models of reciprocity argue that people assess kindness by measuring the intended consequences of … alternatives and realized payoffs. Aggregate results suggest that intended consequences only weakly matter for negative reciprocity …
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reciprocity. The experiment implements sequences of two types of extensive form games called Punishment games and Trust games. The …
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non-binding agreements beforehand. The results refute the concept of rationality and support the impact of reciprocity and … retribution, where retribution is more compelling than reciprocity. The equal division principle is the dominant fairness norm …
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