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Distributional preferences explain individual behavior across games and time
Hedegaard, Morten; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Müller, Daniel; … - 2019
We use a large and heterogeneous sample of the Danish population to investigate the importance of distributional preferences for behavior in a public good game and a trust game. We find robust evidence for the significant explanatory power of distributional preferences. In fact, compared to...
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I deserve more! : an experimental analysis of illusory ownership in dictator games
Kandul, Serhiy; Nikolaychuk, Olexandr - 2017
attribution. In our experiment, the pure luck defines the allocation of the roles. Still, compared to a standard setting, in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916543
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Giving in dictator games : experimenter demand effect or preference over the rules of the game?
Chlaß, Nadine; Moffatt, Peter G. - 2012
/or roles of a game (Blanco et al. 2011). -- altruism ; dictator games ; moral preferences ; experimenter demand effect …
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The values of ex-ante and ex-post communication in dictator games
Langenbach, Pascal - 2014
two experimentswhich study how the timing of messages affects dictators' decisions (experiment 1) and which value … recipients attach to communication opportunities (experiment 2). The first experiment shows that the effect of communication on …, recipients in a second experiment reveal a strong preference for pre-decision messages: Their willingnessto pay for pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361495
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The values of ex-ante and ex-post communication in dictator games
Langenbach, Pascal - 2016 - Revised version: April 2016
two experimentswhich study how the timing of messages affects dictators' decisions (experiment 1) and which value … recipients attach to communication opportunities (experiment 2). The first experiment shows that the effect of communication on …, recipients in a second experiment reveal a strong preference for pre-decision messages: Their willingnessto pay for pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011671666
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Ignorance, intention and stochastic outcomes
Friedrichsen, Jana; Momsen, Katharina; Piasenti, Stefano - 2020
Intentions play a fundamental role in many situations characterized by nonsimultaneous interaction from principal-agent settings in firms to the international task of protecting the environment and the climate. We experimentally investigate how decision makers (DMs) respond to perceived...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012312915
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Ignorance, intention and stochastic outcomes
Friedrichsen, Jana; Momsen, Katharina; Piasenti, Stefano - 2021
room for the second mover when deciding on a reciprocating action. We employ a controlled experiment to investigate how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013338073
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Letting off steam! : experimental evidence on inappropriate punishment
Khachatryan, Elina; Bühren, Christoph - 2020
Aggression is displaced when provocations cannot be directly retaliated against and when it is redirected towards a target innocent of any wrongdoing. While this phenomenon is widespread, it has not been widely explored in experimental economics. We fill this gap and find that a sizeable...
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Social preferences and the variability of conditional cooperation
Baader, Malte; Gächter, Simon; Lee, Kyeongtae; Sefton, … - 2024
We experimentally examine how incentives affect conditional cooperation (i.e., cooperating in response to cooperation and defecting in response to defection) in social dilemmas. In our first study, subjects play eight Sequential Prisoner's Dilemma games with varying payoffs. We elicit second...
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Giving versus taking : a "real donation" comparison of warm glow and cold prickle in a context-rich environment
Grossman, Philip Johnson; Eckel, Catherine C. - 2012
giving in Dictator Games an expression of altruism or an artefact of experimentation? What is unique about this paper is that … we employ a real donationʺ lab experiment in a context-rich environment: contributions go to actual public goods (i … Glow ; Cold Prickle ; Charity ; Altruism …
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