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Egalitarian Envy: Cross-cultural Variation in the Development of Envy in Children

Häger, Kirsten; Oud, Bastiaan; Schunk, Daniel - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

in children. For instance, in contrast with the German sample, gender was not associated with envy in the Penan sample … compares the prevalence and development of destructive envy in children aged seven to ten. The experiment took place in the … with German children and with children from a highly egalitarian society: the Eastern Penan of northern Borneo. We found …

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Envy and Altruism in Children

Häger, Kirsten - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

treatments. One treatment investigates envy, the other one studies altruism. Additionally, we collect data on the children …Envy and altruism have been studied extensively in adults. Here, we report data from an experiment studying envious and … altruistic behavior in children. We study a sample of German school children aged seven to ten in a natural setting. We run two …

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Can't Touch This! Similarity And Willingness to Keep "Dirty Money"

Johnson, David; Goerg, Sebastian; Rogers, Jonathan - Department of Economics, University of Calgary - 2014

Traditionally, larger than equilibrium allocations by proposers in Dictator Games (gifts) have been explained by aspects of altruism, reciprocity, and fairness. However, this assumes the gift to be mutually desirable to the proposer and responder. Giving may also be driven by a desire of the...

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The Evolution of Our Preferences: Evidence from Capuchin-Monkey Trading Behavior

Chen, M. Keith; Lakshminarayanan, Venkat; Santos, Laurie - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2005

Behavioral economics has demonstrated systematic decision-making biases in both lab and field data. But are these biases learned or innate? We investigate this question using experiments on a novel set of subjects — capuchin monkeys. By introducing a fiat currency and trade to a capuchin...

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Symposium: Trust in Second Life

Duffy, John - In: Southern Economic Journal 78 (2011) 1, pp. 53-62

In this article, some issues are raised with regard to conducting economic decision-making experiments in virtual worlds. I make suggestions for addressing these issues. The issues are illustrated via a visit to an experimental laboratory in Second Life.

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Deceleration: Revealed Preference in Society and Win-Win-Strategy for Sustainable Management

Günther, Edeltraud; Lehmann-Waffenschmidt, Marco - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2007

Until recently "deceleration" has been little recognized as a technical term or as an idea, but now it seems to be getting more attention. Despite time is a decisive factor for the productivity and competitive advantages of companies continual acceleration may well be counter-productive and lead...

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Momentum trading strategy and investment horizon: an experimental study

Khoroshilov, Yuri - In: Journal of Economic Studies 39 (2012) January, pp. 4-12

Purpose – Existing empirical studies that document momentum trading strategies do not provide any insight on how investors choose the time horizon that is used to compute the past stock returns. Indeed, since past returns over overlapping time periods are positively correlated, it is hard to...

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Can't Touch This! Similarity And The Willingness to Keep "Dirty Money"

Goerg, Sebastian J.; Johnson, David B.; Rogers, Jonathan D. - Department of Economics, Florida State University - 2014

Traditionally, allocations by dictators in Dictator Games (gifts) have been explained by aspects of altruism, reciprocity, and fairness. However, this assumes the gift to be desirable to the dictators and responder. Giving may also be driven by the source of the endowment. We examine this by...

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Cooperation in Virtual Worlds

Fiedler, Marina - In: Schmalenbach Business Review (sbr) 61 (2009) 2, pp. 173-194

This article reports the results of a controlled lab experiment that studies the effects of strategically irrelevant “cheap talk” via 3D world audio communication and 2D text messaging. I also analyze the effects of technical information richness, experience with a communication medium,...

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Minimal group identity and gender in ultimatum games

Chaserant, Camille - EconomiX, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre la Défense … - 2006

Social identity, or group membership, affects economic outcomes. However, this influence may differ according to the nature of the groups involved. Investigating the weakest group cohesion necessary to influence individual behaviors, we undertook three linked ultimatum game experiments involving...

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