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Concern for relative standing and deception
Galanis, Spyros; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2014
We report results from a sender-receiver deception game, which tests whether an individual's decision to deceive is influenced by a concern for relative standing in a reference group. The sender ranks six possible outcomes, each specifying a payoff for him and the receiver. A message is then...
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Incorporating fairness motives into the impulse balance equilibrium and quantal response equilibrium concepts : an application to 2x2 games
Tavoni, Alessandro - 2009
Substantial evidence has accumulated in recent empirical works on the limited ability of the Nash equilibrium to rationalize observed behavior in many classes of games played by experimental subjects. This realization has led to several attempts aimed at finding tractable equilibrium concepts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008811006
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"It's not about the money. It's about sending a message!" : unpacking the components of revenge
Molńar, András; Chaudhry, Shereen J.; Loewenstein, … - 2020
, preregistered experiment (N = 1,959) we demonstrate that consideration for transgressors' beliefs affects punishment decisions on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012166019
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Altruistic responses to the september 11 terrorist attacks : some evidence from dictator games
Kamas, Linda; Baum, Sandra R.; Preston, Anne E. - In: Eastern economic journal 31 (2005) 4, pp. 551-562
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Heterogeneous preferences for altruism : gender and personality, social status, giving and taking
Visser, Michael S.; Roelofs, Matthew R. - In: Experimental economics : a journal of the Economic … 14 (2011) 4, pp. 490-506
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Of altruists and thieves
Kench, Brian T.; Niman, Neil B. - In: Eastern economic journal 36 (2010) 3, pp. 317-343
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How much is a friend worth? : Directed altruism and enforced reciprocity in social networks
Leider, Stephen; Mobius, Markus; Rosenblat, Tanya; Do, … - 2007
social distances, but only one of these decisions is implemented. We decompose altruistic preferences into baseline altruism … towards strangers, and directed altruism towards friends. In order to separate the motives that are altruistic from the ones … the end of the experiment which decision was selected for payment, and a non-anonymous treatment where both players are …
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Meaningful talk
Streb, Jorge M.; Torrens, Gustavo - 2011
In economics, the standard approach to language is that talk is cheap. Here, instead, language is a social convention that affects utility. Unless language is used in its ordinary sense, it cannot help to coordinate actions because there is no way of decoding it. This points to a unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008903436
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Wondering how others interpret it : social value of public information
Gizatulina, Alia - 2013 - This version: April 2013
signals in the way that they suspect others are doing it. Consequently, the negative impact of public communication noted by … public signal at all, which suggests that there is a scope to "obliterate" public communication in a specific way, by making …, desirability for such obliteration and non-commonality of signals' understanding. -- transparency ; central bank communication …
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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...
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