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designs may unintentionally affect reciprocity. We manipulate the investor’s action space in two versions of the “trust game … investment but limit investors’ demonstrability of intended trust. As a result, “all-in” investors are less generously …
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other hand, efficiency concerns and an aversion against violating trust seem to be far less important motivations. We also …
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This paper studies the evolution of both characteristics of reciprocity - the willingness to reward friendly behavior and the willingness to punish hostile behavior. Firstly, preferences for rewarding as well as preferences for punishing can survive evolution provided individuals interact within...
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motivated by trust in positive reciprocity or fear of negative reciprocity, in addition to unconditional other …
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In this paper, an indirect evolutionary version of the game of trust is studied. A population consisting of trustworthy … or players they know in order to play the game of trust. Some fundamental conditions for the evolutionary success of … trust and trustworthiness are derived. The results are extended to a situation in which the trustworthy players are not …
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The conflict between pro-self and pro-social behaviour is at the core of many key problems of our time, as, for example, the reduction of air pollution and the redistribution of scarce resources. For the well-being of our societies, it is thus crucial to find mechanisms to promote pro-social...
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We study the pattern of correlations across a large number of behavioral regularities, with the goal of creating an empirical basis for more comprehensive theories of decision-making. We elicit 21 behaviors using an incentivized survey on a representative sample (n = 1;000) of the U.S....
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-subject vignette design. Our results also shed light on how promising may contribute to the self-reinforcing creation of trust. …
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We examine gender differences in trust in another party's cooperation (CC) or its ability (AC). While men and women do … not differ concerning trust in cooperation, gender has a strong influence when trust in another subject's ability is …
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Vendettas occur in many real world settings where rivals compete for a prize, e.g., winning an election or a competitive promotion, by engaging in retaliatory aggressive behavior. We present a benchmark experiment where two players have an initial probability of winning a prize. Retaliatory...
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