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Who makes a good leader? : cooperativeness, optimism and leading-by-example
Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Renner, Elke; … - 2009
We examine the characteristics of effective leaders in a simple leader-follower voluntary contributions game. We focus on two factors: the individual's cooperativeness and the individual's beliefs about the cooperativeness of others. We find that groups perform best when led by those who are...
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Who Makes a Good Leader? Social Preferences and Leading-by-Example
Gaechter, Simon - 2009
We examine the effects of social preferences and beliefs about the social preferences of others in a simple leader-follower voluntary contributions game. We find that groups perform best when led by those who are reciprocally oriented. Part of the effect can be explained by a false consensus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765318
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Trust and Trustworthiness Reputations in an Investment Game
Charness, Gary - 2010
Trust is an essential component of good social outcomes and effective economic performance. This is particularly true in environments such as the Prisoner's Dilemma or standard public-goods games, where the equilibrium in a one-shot case involves strictly uncooperative behavior. Evolutionary...
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Does the Direct-Response Method Induce Guilt Aversion in a Trust Game?
Amdur, David; Schmick, Ethan - 2012
We compare the strategy and direct-response methods in a one-shot trust game with hidden action. In our experiment, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167644
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On the interpretation of world values survey trust question : global expectations vs. local beliefs
Banerjee, Ritwik - 2016
How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457340
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Trust and communication in a property rights dilemma
Ahn, T. K.; Balafoutas, Loukas; Batsaikhan, Mongoljin; … - 2016
We study a laboratory social dilemma game in which incentives to steal from others lead to the socially inefficient diversion of resources from production unless the members of a given mini-society can abide by norms of non-theft or engage in low cost collective protection of their members'...
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Measuring responsiveness to feedback as a personal trait
Buser, Thomas; Gerhards, Leonie; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2016
People typically update their beliefs about their own abilities too little in response to feed-back, a phenomenon known as "conservatism", and some studies suggest that they overweight good relative to bad signals ("asymmetry"). We measure individual conservatism and asymmetry in three tasks...
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A nation-wide laboratory : examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative survey
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Rosenbladt, Bernhard von; … - 2003
with representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit … people s trust correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402471
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A nation-wide laboratory : examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Rosenbladt, Bernhard von; … - 2003
data with representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to … elicit people s trust correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly …, respectively. -- Experiment ; Survey ; Trust ; Trustworthiness ; Altruism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009499937
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A nation-wide laboratory : examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Rosenbladt, Bernhard von; … - 2002
data with representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to … elicit people's trust correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 55, highly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437195