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A theory of indifference based on status-seeking behaviour

Marjit, Sugata; Dastidar, Krishnendu Ghosh; Pandey, … - 2023

This paper explores the reluctance of men (women) to acknowledge or recognise the work, comments, and claims of new ideas by other men (women) via widespread and intense demonstrations of indifference. Instances like desk rejections by journals by not allowing papers to reach a review stage,...

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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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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....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414267

Spillovers, Persistence and Learning : Institutions and the Dynamics of Cooperation

Galbiati, Roberto - 2017

We study how cooperation-enforcing institutions dynamically affect values and behavior using a lab experiment designed to create individual specific histories of past institutional exposure. We show that the effect of past institutions is mostly due to “indirect” behavioral spillovers:...

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Punishment fosters efficiency in the minimum effort coordination game

Le Lec, Fabrice; Matthey, Astrid; Rydval, Ondřej - 2012

Using a laboratory experiment, we examine whether informal monetary sanctions can lead to better coordination in a … repeated minimum effort coordination game. While most groups first experience inefficient coordination, the efficiency … efficiency. This suggests that decentralized monetary sanctions can play a major role as a coordination device in Pareto …

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The evolutionary stability of optimism, pessimism, and complete ignorance

Schipper, Burkhard - 2019

We provide an evolutionary foundation to evidence that in some situations humans maintain either optimistic or pessimistic attitudes towards uncertainty and are ignorant to relevant aspects of the environment. Players in strategic games face Knightian uncertainty about opponents' actions and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012101422

The evolutionary stability of optimism, pessimism and complete ignorance

Schipper, Burkhard - 2005

We provide an evolutionary foundation to evidence that in some situations humans maintain optimistic or pessimistic attitudes towards uncertainty and are ignorant to relevant aspects of the environment. Players in strategic games face Knightian uncertainty about opponents' actions and maximize...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010366542

Expectation-based loss aversion and strategic interaction

Dato, Simon; Grunewald, Andreas; Müller, Daniel - 2015

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis regarding strategic interaction under expectation-based loss-aversion. First, we develop a coherent framework for the analysis by extending the equilibrium concepts of Koszegi and Rabin (2006, 2007) to strategic interaction and demonstrate how to...

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Whom are you talking with? : an experiment on credibility and communication structure

Grandjean, Gilles; Mantovani, Marco; Mauleon, Ana; … - 2014

messages, on their credibility and on actual play. We run an experiment in a three-player coordination game with Pareto ranked …

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The Heaven Dictator Game : costless taking or giving

García Gallego, Aurora; Georgantzís, Nikolaos; … - In: Journal of behavioral and experimental economics 82 (2019)

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