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We investigate how cognitive ability and age affect giving behavior in single-blind dictator game experiments with a sample comprising 514 non-student participants in Japan. First, we found a negative correlation between cognitive ability and giving behavior. Focusing on dictators with medium or...
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Can differences in cognitive reflection explain other-regarding behavior? To test this, I use the three-item Cognitive Reflection Task to classify individuals as intuitive or reflective and correlate this measure with choices in three games that each subject participates in. The main sample...
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Recent research has shed light on the effect of cognitive ability on economic decision-making. By measuring cognitive ability using Raven's progressive matrix test, we investigate this effect on human behavior in two types of experimental ultimatum games. We obtain two significant results....
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This paper provides an argument for the advantage of a preference for identity-consistent behaviour from an … is greatly facilitated if the agents of the society possess a preference for identity consistent behaviour. As … distinctive cooperative trait in human behaviour and show how this squares with the evidence. …
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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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