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) the indoctrination effect. We offer an alternative, novel explanation: we argue that these differences can be explained by … tradeoff between profit maximization (market norm) and workers' welfare (social norm). We use priming to manipulate the cues …
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The question of whether lawyers and managers behave selfishly or fairly has inspired discussion for a long time. Empirical evidence, however, is sparse. Using data from an experiment with 359 law and business administration students, we investigate this question empirically and provide first...
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This paper provides an argument for the advantage of a preference for identity-consistent behaviour from an evolutionary point of view. Within a stylised model of social interaction, we show that the development of cooperative social norms is greatly facilitated if the agents of the society...
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, private violation of a social norm. We found that the manipulation of a norm of fairness was characterized by a self …
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Departures from "economic man" behavior in many games in which fairness is a salient characteristic are now well …
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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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conducted a real effort fairness experiment where people in two of the world's richest countries, Norway and Germany, interacted …
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We provide experimental evidence of self-serving fairness ideals in a dictator game design that includes treatments … the dictator reduce her generosity significantly. Hence, the fairness ideal adopted by dictators appears to be equal share …
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This essay reviews new histories of the role of game theory and rational decision-making in shaping the social sciences, economics among them, in the post war period. The recent books "The World the Game Theorists Made" by Paul Erickson and "How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind" by Paul Erickson,...
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