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The framing of games and the psychology of play
Dufwenberg, Martin; Gächter, Simon; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike - 2010 - [Rev. version of 2006,20]
Psychological game theory can provide rational-choice-based framing effects; frames influence beliefs, beliefs influence motivations. We explain this theoretically and explore empirical relevance experimentally. In a 2×2 design of one-shot public good games we show that frames affect subject's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008699706
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The framing of games and the psychology of play
Dufwenberg, Martin; Gächter, Simon; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike - 2010
Psychological game theory can provide rational-choice-based framing effects; frames influence beliefs, beliefs influence motivations. We explain this theoretically and explore empirical relevance experimentally. In a 2x2 design of one-shot public good games we show that frames affect subject’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008986776
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The framing of games and the psychology of strategic choice
Dufwenberg, Martin (contributor);  … - 2006
Psychological game theory can provide a rational choice explanation of framing effects; frames influence beliefs, and beliefs influence motivations. We explain this point theoretically, and explore its empirical relevance experimentally. In a 2×2-factorial framing design of one-shot public good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003385854
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The framing of games and the psychology of play
Dufwenberg, Martin (contributor);  … - 2008
Psychological game theory can help provide a rational choice explanation of framing effects; frames influence beliefs, beliefs influence motivations. We explain this theoretically, and explore the empirical relevance experimentally. In a 2×2 design of one-shot public good games we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003782356
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Distributional preferences explain individual behavior across games and time
Hedegaard, Morten; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Müller, Daniel; … - 2019
preferences for behavior in a public good game and a trust game. We find robust evidence for the significant explanatory power of … contribute more to the public good and are more likely to pick the trustworthy action in the trust game than other subjects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009014
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Microfoundations of social capital
Thöni, Christian; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Wengström, Erik - 2010
We show that the standard trust question routinely used in social capital research is importantly related to … others cooperation. We find that the standard trust question is a proxy for cooperation preferences rather than beliefs about … others cooperation. Moreover, we show that the fairness question , a recently proposed alternative to the standard trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011344859
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Harnessing Reciprocity to Promote Cooperation and the Provisioning of Public Goods
Rand, David G.; Yoeli, Erez; Hoffman, Moshe - 2015
How can we maximize the common good? This is a central organizing question of public policy design, across political parties and ideologies. The answer typically involves the provisioning of public goods such as fresh air, national defense, and knowledge. Public goods are costly to produce but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014037089
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Microfoundations of Social Capital
Thöni, Christian; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Wengström, Erik - 2010
We show that the standard trust question routinely used in social capital research is importantly related to … internet in Denmark and find that the trust question is a proxy for cooperation preferences rather than beliefs about others … recently proposed alternative to the “trust question”, is also related to cooperation behavior but operates through beliefs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202519
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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300140
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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308480