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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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Managing self-confidence : theory and experimental evidence

Mobius, Markus; Niederle, Muriel; Niehaus, Paul; … - 2011 - This version: October 3, 2011

Evidence from social psychology suggests that agents process information about their own ability in a biased manner. This evidence has motivated exciting research in behavioral economics, but also garnered critics who point out that it is potentially consistent with standard Bayesian updating....

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Distributional preferences and competitive behavior

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2011

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When does the price affect the taste? : results from a wine experiment

Almenberg, Johan; Dreber, Anna - 2009 - Rev. March 2, 2010

We designed an experiment that examines how knowledge about the price of a good, and the time at which the information is received, affects how the good is experienced. The good in question was wine, and the price was either high or low. Our results suggest that hosts offering wine to guests can...

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An eye-tracking study of feature-based choice in one-shot games

Devetag, Giovanna; Di Guida, Sibilla; Polonio, Luca - 2013

We analyze subjects' eye movements while they make decisions in a series of one-shot games. The majority of them perform a partial and selective analysis of the payoff matrix, often ignoring the payoffs of the opponent and/or paying attention only to specific cells. Our results suggest that...

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The dark side of groups : a "gang at work" in Enron

Stein, Mark; Pinto, Jonathan - In: Group & organization management : an international journal 36 (2011) 6, pp. 692-721

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Psychological pathways to fraud : understanding and preventing fraud in organizations

Murphy, Pamela R.; Dacin, M. Tina - In: Journal of business ethics : JOBE 101 (2011) 4, pp. 601-618

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Estimating the influence of life satisfaction and positive affect on later income using sibling fixed-effects

De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2012

The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue across the social, psychological, and behavioral sciences. Much research has found that richer people tend to be happier. However, relatively little attention has been paid to...

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Toward the integration of personality theory and decision theory in the explanation of economic and health behavior

Rustichini, Aldo; DeYoung, Colin G.; Anderson, Jon; … - 2012

emphasizing variables derived from formal decision theory. In a data set on trainee truckers in a large US company, we provide a … comparing the predictive power of measurements derived from personality theory and decision theory for several individual …. Further, decision theory and personality variables are meaningfully related. For example, we confirm that cognitive ability …

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Some additional evidence on the interplay between corruption, tax policy and firm entry using US states

Dove, John A. - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 18, pp. 1307-1310

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