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The recent housing bust has reignited interest in psychological theories of speculative excess (Shiller, 2007). I investigate this issue by identifying a segment of the U.S. population-evangelical protestants-that may be less prone to speculative motives, and uncover a significant negative...
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religion. We report results for a public goods experiment conducted in India, Mexico, and Sweden. By asking participants …This paper examines the supernatural punishment theory. The theory postulates that religion increases cooperation … game. We found no significant behavioral differences between religious and nonreligious participants in the experiment. …
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religious representations increased cooperation in the experiment, that is, increased contributions to the public good. The … games. This study contributes to the literature by examining the effect of subtle influences of religion on cooperation …. Also, in contrast to previous economic literature, the paper examines the direct impact of religion as an independent …
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change their cooperative behaviour in response to religious festivals. Most of the differences can, however, be explained by …
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Although evidence indicates that religious persons are more generous on average than nonreligious persons, little work has been done to determine if this greater generosity is a general pattern or is, rather, specific to church-based institutions. Limited research addresses if, or how, religious...
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We explore the relationship between personal characteristics and the decision to lie to an anonymous partner in a cheap talk environment. We find that sex, age, grade point average, student debt, size of return, socioeconomic status, and average time spent in religious observation are not...
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of religious behaviour towards "Theoi" in the laboratory. The theory we test is that, when faced with uncertainty …
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Using quasi-experimental data, this paper examines the relationship between religiosity and prosocial behavior. In contrast to previous studies which identify religious people by how often they attend religious services or by their self-reported religiosity, this study compares the behavior of...
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We investigate whether depleting people's cognitive resources (or willpower) affects the degree to which they are susceptible to framing effects. Recent research in social psychology and economics has suggested that willpower is a resource that can be temporarily depleted and that a depleted...
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