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Is self-leadership the new silver bullet of leadership? : an empirical test of the relationship between self-leadership and organizational commitment
Pihl-Thingvad, Signe - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 25 (2014) 2, pp. 103-124
Self-leadership is theoretically assumed to be the key management approach in modern knowledge work because it strengthens the employees' commitment. This study examines the relationship between self-leadership and affective organizational commitment empirically. An underlying assumption in the...
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Handedness predicts social preferences : evidence connecting the lab to the field
Buser, Thomas - 2010
It is now generally accepted that some people are more altruistic, more trusting, or more reciprocal than others, but it is still unclear whether these differences are innate or a consequence of nurture. We analyse the correlation between handedness and social preferences in the lab and find...
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Finding the cost of control
Kessler, Judd B.; Leider, Stephen - 2013
agents to withhold effort. We investigate when this behavioral result arises. In an extensive laboratory experiment, we find … acting as a principal. -- experiment ; principal-agent problem ; hidden cost of control …
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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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Does the reliability of institutions affect public good contributions? : evidence from a laboratory experiment
Fochmann, Martin; Jahnke, Björn; Wagener, Andreas - 2016
Reliable institutions - i.e., institutions that live up to the norms that agents expect them to keep - foment cooperative behavior. We experimentally confirm this hypothesis in a public goods game with a salient norm that cooperation was socially demanded and corruption ought not to occur. When...
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When do people exploit moral wiggle room? : an experimental analysis in a market setup
Momsen, Katharina; Ohndorf, Markus - 2019
laboratory experiment in which subjects purchase products associated with externalities. In six between-subjects treatments, we …
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On the effect of anchoring on valuations when the anchor is transparently uninformative
Ioannidis, Konstantinos; Offerman, Theo; Sloof, Randolph - 2020 - Revision: April 2020
We test whether markets are needed to mitigate the effects of anchoring on peoples' pref- erences. We anchor subjects by asking them if they are willing to sell a bottle of wine for a transparently uninformative random price. We elicit subjects' Willingness-To-Accept for the bottle before and...
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Delay of gratification and the role of defaults : an experiment with kindergarten children
Sutter, Matthias; Yilmaz, Levent; Oberauer, Manuela - 2015
. We study in an experiment with 336 kindergarten children, aged three to six years, whether intertemporal choice behavior …
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Luck, choice and responsibility : an experimental study of fairness views
Möllerström, Johanna; Reme, Bjørn-Atle; Sørensen, … - 2014
We conduct a laboratory experiment where third-party spectators can redistribute resources between two agents, thereby …
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Willpower depletion and framing effects
Haan, Thomas de; Veldhuizen, Roel van - 2013
We investigate whether depleting people's cognitive resources (or "willpower") affects the degree to which they are susceptible to framing effects. Recent research in social psychology and economics has suggested that willpower is a resource that can be temporarily depleted and that a depleted...
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