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We investigate social norms for dictator game giving using a recently proposed norm-elicitation procedure (Krupka and … Weber, 2013). We elicit norms separately from dictator, recipient, and disinterested third party respondents and find that … elicited norms are stable and insensitive to the role of the respondent. The results support the use of this procedure as a …
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consent constitute a price that people are willing to accept for increased compliance with social norms. Providing people with …, nudging people towards potential publicity does not increase the value they place on privacy. We also test how the default …
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We consider the notions of static and dynamic reasonableness of requests in a trust game experiment. We vary systematically the experimental norm of what is expected from trustees to return to trustors, both in terms of level of each request and in terms of sequence of the requests. Static...
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A popular empirical technique to measure norms uses coordination games to elicit what subjects in an experiment … focal points to coordinate, in which case the method may deliver distorted measurements of the social norm. We test the …
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contrary, very little is known about the specific role of obligations. In this paper we test whether or not obligations have …
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Substantial evidence has accumulated in recent empirical works on the limited ability of the Nash equilibrium to rationalize observed behavior in many classes of games played by experimental subjects. This realization has led to several attempts aimed at finding tractable equilibrium concepts...
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We conduct a modified dictator game in order to analyze the role self-image concerns play in other-regarding behavior. While we generally follow Konow (2000), a cognitive dissonance-based model of other-regarding behavior in dictator games, we relax one of its assumptions as we allow for...
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social norms (the aversion to act differently than others in the same situation) are important drivers of human behavior. We …
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differences in the interpretation of the context. We test this hypothesis by conducting two social dilemma experiments in the US … participants receive cues emphasizing social norms, on the other hand, both economics and non-economics students are less likely to …
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Peer observation can influence social norm perceptions as well as behavior in various moral domains, but is the tendency to be influenced by and conform with peers domain-general? In an online experiment (N = 815), we studied peer effects in honesty and cooperation and tested the...
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