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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 …
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This paper reviews some of the economic experimental evidence on conformism. There is nothing to match the early psychology experiments where subjects were often swayed by the behaviour of others to an extraordinary degree, but there is plenty of evidence of conformism. This seems built-in to...
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. To this end, we conduct a repeated public goods experiment with and without punishment using samples from the laboratory … and the online platform Amazon Mechanical Turk. We chose to replicate this experiment because it is long and logistically … interactive experimentation. We find that basic behavioral patterns of cooperation and punishment in the laboratory are replicable …
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We conducted an experiment on the nature of income sharing within 95 established couples in Germany. In a first step …
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on cooperative behavior. In a survey experiment with a representative sample of the Swedish population (N = 1,828), we …
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. To this end, we conduct a repeated public goods experiment with and without punishment using samples from the laboratory … and the online platform Amazon Mechanical Turk. We chose to replicate this experiment because it is long and logistically … interactive experimentation. We find that basic behavioral patterns of cooperation and punishment in the laboratory are replicable …
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. Over time, participants adapt to changes in tier structure in the direction predicted by theory. Risk aversion partly …
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agents, allowing them to plan optimally. This experiment tests a somewhat implicit assumption of the Rolling Model, or of …
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According to the Terror Management Theory, the fear of death may induce anxiety and threaten individual self-esteem. To …
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