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Determinants of trust : the role of personal experiences
Schwerter, Frederik; Zimmermann, Florian - 2019
Social interactions pervade daily life and thereby create an abundance of social experiences. Such personal experiences likely shape what we believe and who we are. In this paper, we ask if and how personal experiences from social interactions determine individuals' inclination to trust others?...
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The curse of knowledge increases self-selection into competition : experimental evidence
Danz, David - 2014 - Rev.
The psychology literature provides ample evidence that people have difficulties taking the perspective of less-informed others. This paper presents a controlled experiment showing that this "curse of knowledge" can cause comparative overconfidence and overentry into competition. In a broader...
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Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real-effort competition
Gächter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - 2017
We present an experiment to investigate the source of disappointment aversion in a sequential real-effort competition. Specifically, we study the contribution of social comparison effects to the disappointment aversion previously identified in a two-person real-effort competition (Gill and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647659
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Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real-effort competition
Gächter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - 2017
This paper investigates the contribution of social comparison effects to the disappointment aversion previously identified in a two-person real-effort competition (Gill and Prowse, 2012). "Social" and "asocial" versions of the Gill and Prowse experiment are compared, where the latter treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011660754
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Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real-effort competition
Gächter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - 2017
We present an experiment to investigate the source of disappointment aversion in a sequential real-effort competition. Specifically, we study the contribution of social comparison effects to the disappointment aversion previously identified in a two-person real-effort competition (Gill and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011658021
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Inequity aversion and advantage seeking with asymmetric competition
Cox, Caleb A. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 86 (2013) C, pp. 121-136
In this experiment I study a novel three-player ultimatum game in which two proposers with unequal amounts of money simultaneously submit offers to one responder, who may accept at most one offer. I compare the predictions of inequity aversion, advantage seeking, and self-interest. Unlike...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688115
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Belief formation in a signalling game without common prior : an experiment
Possajennikov, Alexandre - 2012
Using belief elicitation, the paper investigates the formation and the evolution of beliefs in a signalling game in … which a common prior on Sender's type is not induced. Beliefs are elicited about the type of the Sender and about the … strategies of the players. The experimental subjects often start with diffuse uniform beliefs and update them in view of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535526
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Do not incentivize eco-friendly behavior: Go for a competition to go green!
Bühren, Christoph; Daskalakis, Maria - 2015
effort lab experiments with 550 subjects in 11 treatments and one baseline. Our results indicate that monetary incentives to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406149
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Which green nudge helps to save energy? Experimental evidence
Bühren, Christoph; Daskalakis, Maria - 2020
Which behavioral interventions are more appropriate to induce energy saving: energy saving goals with or without monetary incentives, environmentally related information, social comparison, or a competition to save energy? We try to answer this question in a comprehensive study. First, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012543674
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Do not incentivize eco-friendly behavior : go for a competition to go green!
Bühren, Christoph; Daskalakis, Maria - 2015
effort lab experiments with 550 subjects in 11 treatments and one baseline. Our results indicate that monetary incentives to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373730