The quest for status is a powerful motivator, but does it affect inequality? This paper presents a novel lab experiment …

Evolutionary theory reveals that punishment is effective in promoting cooperation and maintaining social norms …. Although it is accepted that emotions are connected to punishment decisions, there remains substantial debate over why humans … use costly punishment. Here we show experimentally that constraints on emotion expression can increase the use of costly …

, which is explained by the theory of motivated reasoning (Kunda, 1990). However, that theory does not take into consideration … behavior. To accomplish this purpose, study participants role-played as advisors on a tax compliance task. The experiment used …

We run a market experiment where firms can choose not only their price but also whether to present comparable offers …