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In prosocial decisions, decision-makers are inherently uncertain about how their decisions impact others' utility - we call this interpersonal uncertainty. We show that people's response to interpersonal uncertainty shapes well-known patterns of prosocial behavior. First, using standard social...
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In prosocial decisions, decision-makers are inherently uncertain about how their decisions impact others’ utility – we call this interpersonal uncertainty. We show that people’s response to interpersonal uncertainty shapes well-known patterns of prosocial behavior. First, using standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576953
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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This paper reviews some of the economic experimental evidence on conformism. There is nothing to match the early psychology experiments where subjects were often swayed by the behaviour of others to an extraordinary degree, but there is plenty of evidence of conformism. This seems built-in to...
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We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals' cooperation … novel test as to whether there are types of players who behave consistently with their elicited preferences. We find clear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290527
We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals’ cooperation … novel test as to whether there are "types" of players who behave consistently with their elicited preferences. We find clear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003261927
We study the decision process in a group dictator game in which three subjects can distribute an initial endowment between themselves and a group of recipients. The experiment consists of two stages: first, individuals play a standard dictator game. Second, individuals are randomly matched into...
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We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals' cooperation … novel test as to whether there are types of players who behave consistently with their elicited preferences. We find clear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783408
preferences for generosity are different between domains and that different social norms of allocation can explain the greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011944334
Previous studies suggest that two otherwise robust 'anomalies' - preference reversals and disparities between buying and selling valuations - are eroded when respondents participate in repeated markets. We report an experiment which investigates whether this is true when factors neglected in...
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