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Social norms third-party observation and third-party reward

Sutter, Matthias; Lindner, Peter; Platsch, Daniela - 2009

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Social norms, third-party observation and third-party reward

Sutter, Matthias; Lindner, Peter; Platsch, Daniela - 2009 - This version: 8th April 2009

This paper examines the influence of third-party observation and third-party reward on behavior in an experimental prisoner's dilemma (PD) game. Whereas the existing literature on third-party intervention as a means to sustain social norms has dealt almost exclusively with third-party...

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Opinion Dynamics Under Conformity

Buechel, Berno - 2012

We present a model of opinion formation where individuals repeatedly engage in discussion and update their opinion in a social network similarly to the DeGroot model. Abstracting from the standard assumption that individuals always report their opinion truthfully, agents in our model interact...

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Truth, trust, and sanctions : on institutional selection in sender-receiver games

Peeters, Ronald; Vorsatz, Marc; Walzl, Markus - 2011

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Opinion dynamics under conformity

Buechel, Berno; Hellmann, Tim; Klößner, Stefan - 2012

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Truth, trust, and sanctions : on institutional selection in sender-receiver games

Peeters, Ronald; Vorsatz, Marc; Walzl, Markus - 2011

We conduct a laboratory experiment to investigate the impact of institutions and institutional choice on truth-telling and trust in sender-receiver games. We find that in an institution with sanctioning opportunities, receivers sanction predominantly after having trusted lies. Individuals who...

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Efficiency Effects on Coalition Formation in Contests

Nevrekar, Saish - 2022

approach by assuming certain properties for the winning probability that imply efficiency gains from cooperation in contest … settings. Efficiency gains are said to be generated if any coalition experiences increasing marginal returns with aggregate … generate sufficient efficiency gains, then any equilibrium always consists of two or more coalitions where at least two …

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Social Rationalizability with Mediation

Herings, Peter Jean-Jacques; Mauleon, Ana; … - 2022

We propose a solution concept for social environments called social rationalizability with mediation that identifies the consequences of common knowledge of rationality and farsightedness. In a social environment several coalitions may and could be willing to move at the same time. Individuals...

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An exact non-cooperative support for the sequential Raiffa solution

Trockel, Walter - 2009

This article provides an exact non-cooperative foundation of the sequential Raiffa solution for two person bargaining games. Based on an approximate foundation due to Myerson (1997) for any two-person bargaining game (S,d) an extensive form game G^S^d is defined that has an infinity of weakly...

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Cooperation, motivation and social balance

Bosworth, Steven; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....

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