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We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
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This study test whether social reference points impact individual risk taking. In a laboratory experiment, decision …
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individual and his social reference point. In the experiment we reproduce a workplace environment whereby subjects interact in an …
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points are determined by expectations. In the first experiment, we endow subjects with an item and randomize the probability … determined by the status quo or when preferences are reference-independent. In the second experiment, we randomly assign subjects …
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, because the economics literature on group decision making has, so far, assumed homogeneity within groups. In a lab experiment …
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, because the economics literature on group decision making has, so far, assumed homogeneity within groups. In a lab experiment …
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We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...
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While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample of children aged between 7 and 14, we find...
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Many important intertemporal decisions are made by groups rather than individuals. What happens to collective decisions when there is internal conflict about the tradeoff between present and future has not been thoroughly investigated so far. We study experimentally the causal effect of group...
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Many important intertemporal decisions are made by groups rather than individuals. What happens to collective decisions when there is internal conflict about the tradeoff between present and future has not been thoroughly investigated so far. We study experimentally the causal effect of group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415076