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We experimentally investigate behavior and beliefs in a sequential prisoner's dilemma. Each subject had to choose an action as first-mover and a conditional action as second-mover. All subjects also had to state their beliefs about others' second-mover choices. We find that subjects' beliefs...
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States: college students, non-student adults from the community surrounding the college, and adult trainee truckers in a …, we observe a large difference between self-selected college students and self-selected adults: the students appear …
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Paying it forward" is a behavior in which people help someone else because they were helped in the past. Although experimental evidence exists that indicates that real human beings often "pay-it-forward" even in the face of free-rider risks, the theoretical basis for the evolution of this...
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? To answer this question, we conducted a two-stage 2x2 experiment. In the first stage, we used a Deception Game to measure … altruism and cooperation are positively correlated with aversion to telling a Pareto white lie; (ii) both altruism and … cooperation are negatively correlated with aversion to telling an altruistic white lie; (iii) men are more likely than women to …
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environments modify students’ risk-taking attitudes. In Booth and Nolen (2012b), subjects are in years 10 and 11, while in Booth …, Cardona-Sosa and Nolen (2014), they are first-year university students randomly assigned to single-sex and coed classes. While …
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for which two channels may be responsible, that our experiment allows to separate: i) a direct, preference-based channel … the indirect channel: beliefs about second-mover cooperation are biased toward own second-mover behavior, and most … subjects best respond to stated beliefs. But when first movers know the true probability of second-mover cooperation, subjects …
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for which two channels may be responsible, that our experiment allows to separate: i) a direct, preference-based channel … the indirect channel: beliefs about second-mover cooperation are biased toward own second-mover behavior, and most … subjects best respond to stated beliefs. But when first movers know the true probability of second-mover cooperation, subjects …
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experiment allows us to separate different interaction channels. When subjects play both roles in such experiments, a positive …-mover decision is a best response to these beliefs. Specifically, beliefs about second-mover cooperation are biased toward own second …-based channel. When first movers know the true probability of second-mover cooperation, subjects' own second moves still have …
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