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The present book adds to the broad field of investigations concerning what affects and determines human cooperation. It provides new insights into internal and external factors that influence such decisions. Rather than presenting a closed and universal examination, this book should be seen as...
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evidence that the strategic nature of the game affects the strength of identity. We also show when the change in identity … experimental procedure we measure identity, as standard in the psychology literature, in order to assess the extent to which … action selected in the game as affecting the identity of the subject. We find that in the Mean Game, there is little …
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We investigate how moral concerns about permit trading affect an endogenous pollution permit trading equilibrium, where governments choose non-cooperatively the amount of permits they allocate to domestic industries. Politicians may feel reluctant to allow permit trading and/or may prefer that...
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This paper investigates whether language priming activates different cultural identities and norms associated with the language communicated; bilingual subjects are given Chinese instructions in the Chinese treatment and English instructions in the English treatment. The main findings are: (1) in...
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This paper provides an argument for the advantage of a preference for identity-consistent behaviour from an … is greatly facilitated if the agents of the society possess a preference for identity consistent behaviour. As …
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to the model is the role of a person's social identity in encouraging compliance to a norm. The strength of this identity …
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We study the interplay between leading-by-example and group identity in a public goods game experiment. A common … identity between the leader and her followers is beneficial for cooperation: average contributions are more than 30% higher … than in a treatment where no identity was induced. In two further treatments we study the effects of heterogeneous …
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