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Thinking in Chinese vs. thinking in English : social preference and risk attitudes of multicultural minds
Li, King King - 2010
This paper investigates whether language priming activates different cultural identities and norms associated with the language communicated; bilingual subjects are given Chinese instructions in the Chinese treatment and English instructions in the English treatment. The main findings are: (1) in...
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Risk Taking in the Household : Strategic Behavior, Social Preferences, or Interdependent Preferences?
Engel, Christoph - 2020
We test 494 households participating in the German Socio Economic Panel SOEP to examine risk taking by one household member that affects a second household member. Choices cannot be explained by (short term) strategic behavior. Respect for the risk preference of the counterpart is at best...
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The role of interpersonal uncertainty in prosocial behavior
Chakraborty, Anujit; Henkel, Luca - 2024
In prosocial decisions, decision-makers are inherently uncertain about how their decisions impact others' utility - we call this interpersonal uncertainty. We show that people's response to interpersonal uncertainty shapes well-known patterns of prosocial behavior. First, using standard social...
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The role of interpersonal uncertainty in prosocial behavior
Chakraborty, Anujit; Henkel, Luca - 2024
In prosocial decisions, decision-makers are inherently uncertain about how their decisions impact others’ utility – we call this interpersonal uncertainty. We show that people’s response to interpersonal uncertainty shapes well-known patterns of prosocial behavior. First, using standard...
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The age of consequences : unraveling conflict's impact on social preferences, norm enforcement, and risk-taking
Coutts, Alexander - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization 218 (2024), pp. 48-67
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Risk Attitude, Beliefs, and Information in a Corruption Game - An Experimental Analysis
Berninghaus, Siegfried - 2013
For our experiment on corruption, we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs …
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Measuring socially appropriate social preferences
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Robbett, Andrea - 2022
We extend the literature structurally estimating social preferences by accounting for the desire to adhere to social norms. Our representative agent is strongly motivated by norms and failing to account for this causes us to overestimate how much agents care about helping those who are worse...
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That's just - not fair : gender differences in notions of justice
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2015
In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences...
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That's just : not fair ; gender differences in notions of justice
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2015
In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327335
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Revealed notions of distributive justice II : experimental evidence
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013
We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a "social planner" or a "veil of ignorance …" experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion … Agreement and Symmetry axioms proposed in BHH; we find that for 80% of participants the evidence is very strong. The experiment …
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