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The effect of self-awareness and competition on dishonesty

Çıbık, Ceren Bengü; Sgroi, Daniel - 2021

We provide the first investigation of the relationship between self-awareness and dis- honesty in a multi-wave pre-registered experiment with 1,260 subjects. In the first wave we vary the level of awareness of subjects' past dishonesty and explore the impact on behaviour in tasks that include...

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The normative permissiveness of political partyism

Lane, Tom; Miller, Luis; Rodriguez, Isabel - 2023

Political identity has become the strongest social divide within Western societies. This paper employs experiments to measure discrimination along multiple dimensions of social identity, and replicates previous findings showing the strongest discrimination against out-groups occurs in the...

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A note on the design of experiments involving public goods

Graves, Philip E. - 2010

Concern about potential free riding in the provision of public goods has a long history. More recently, experimental economists have turned their attention to the conditions under which free riding would be expected to occur. A model of free riding is provided here which demonstrates that...

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Deception, Social Preferences, and Friendship

maximiano, sandra - 2020

We investigate the interaction between friendship, social preferences, and deceptive behavior. We implement a sender- receiver game, in which senders choose from a distinct set of allocations that embodies a multi-dimensional set of potential lies. A novelty of our design is that it directly...

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Accounting for context : separating monetary and social incentives

Bergh, Andreas; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2014 - This Version: October 7, 2014

This paper proposes a simple framework to model social preferences in a game theoretic framework which explicitly separates economic incentives from social (context) effects. It is argued that such a perspective makes it easier to analyse contextual effects. Moreover, the framework is used to...

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Two additional remarks on conformism

Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2014 - This version: February 13, 2014

This note offers two comments on the article "Social Influences towards Conformism in Economic Experiments" by … Hargreaves Heap that is to appear in the Economics e-Journal. One relates to the concept of conformism, the other lines out some … phenomena where an explicit recognition of group processes, such as conformism, may be analytically helpful. …

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Why people obey the law : experimental evidence from the provision of public goods

Feld, Lars P.; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2002

According to economists, severe legal sanctions deter violations of the law. According to legal scholars, people may obey law backed by mild sanctions because of norm-activation. We experimentally investigate the effects of mild and severe legal sanctions in the provision of public goods. The...

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When do beliefs, about the values of others, affect tax compliance and honesty?

Kisters, Tom - 2022

When do ex-ante beliefs about the values of others affect compliance and honesty? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment, in which subjects face repeated trade-offs between monetary gain and honesty. As a source of exogenous variation, half of the subjects were told that their choices...

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The influence of empirical and normative expectations on cooperation

Kölle, Felix; Quercia, Simone - 2021 - This version: June 2021

In this paper, we investigate the joint influence of empirical and normative expectations on cooperative behavior. We conduct two experimental studies (n = 243) in which we separately elicit (i) behavior in a public goods game and (ii) social norms under the form of normative and empirical...

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Understanding cooperation in an intertemporal context

Kölle, Felix; Lauer, Thomas - 2020 - This version:December2020

In today's highly complex economic environment, cooperation among individuals is crucial for organizational and societal success. Most of the situations in which cooperation is required involve costly efforts whose consequences play out over time. Here, we provide a systematic and comprehensive...

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