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Everybody's doing it : on the emergence and persistence of bad social norms

Smerdon, David; Offerman, Theo; Genîzî, Ûrî - 2016

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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Can contracts signal social norms? : experimental evidence

Danilov, Anastasia; Sliwka, Dirk - 2013

We investigate whether incentive schemes signal social norms and thus affect behavior beyond their direct economic consequences. A principal-agent experiment is studied in which prior to contract choice principals are informed about past actions of other agents and thus have more information...

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Empowerment and the dark side of delegation

Kräkel, Matthias - 2018

The existing delegation literature has focused on different preferences of principal and agent concerning project selection, which makes delegating authority costly for the principal. This paper shows that delegation has a cost even when the preferences of principal and agent are exogenously...

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Integrating affective responses into game theory : a dual selves model

Greiff, Matthias - 2015

This paper develops a method to integrate affective reponses into game theoretical models. We illustrate our method in a team production framework. The model analyzes how concave and convex status preferences for esteem solve the problem of team production under complete and incomplete...

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Team production and esteem : a dual selves model with belief-dependent preferences

Greiff, Matthias - In: Games 10 (2019) 3/33, pp. 1-20

We propose a dual selves model to integrate affective responses and belief-dependent emotions into game theory. We apply our model to team production and model a worker as being composed of a rational self, who chooses effort, and an emotional self, who expresses esteem. Similar to psychological...

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Behavioural isomorphism, cognitive economy and recursive thought in non-transitive game strategy

Dyson, Benjamin J. - In: Games 10 (2019) 3/32, pp. 1-14

Game spaces in which an organism must repeatedly compete with an opponent for mutually exclusive outcomes are critical methodologies for understanding decision-making under pressure. In the non-transitive game rock, paper, scissors (RPS), the only technique that guarantees the lack of...

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Why and how identity should influence utility

Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2007 - This Version: January 11, 2007

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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Ambiguity when playing coordination games across cultures

Peryman, Joanne; Kelsey, David - In: Theory and decision : an international journal for … 90 (2021) 3/4, pp. 485-505

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Thinking in Chinese vs. thinking in English : Social preference and risk attitudes of multicultural minds

Li, King King - 2010

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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Group identity and leading-by-example

Drouvelis, Michalis; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2012

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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