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Do women have more shame than men? : an experiment on self-assessment and the shame of overestimating oneself ; conference paper
Ludwig, Sandra; Thoma, Carmen - 2013
they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do not seem to be similarly shame-averse. This gender difference may be due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340968
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Do women have more shame than men? : an experiment on self-assessment and the shame of overestimating oneself
Ludwig, Sandra; Thoma, Carmen - 2014
they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do not seem to be similarly shame-averse. This gender difference may be due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403565
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Is underconfidence favored over overconfidence? : an experiment on the perception of a biased self-assessment
Thoma, Carmen - 2013
This paper reports findings of a laboratory experiment, which explores how elfassessment regarding the own relative performance is perceived by others. In particular, I investigate whether overconfident subjects or underconfident subjects are considered as more likable by others, and who of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350220
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Gender differences and dynamics in competition : the role of luck
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 5 (2014) 2, pp. 351-376
explain more of the variation in behavior for women, and account for about half of the gender performance gap in our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011757252
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Conforming with Peers in Honesty and Cooperation
Isler, Ozan; Gaechter, Simon - 2022
Peer observation can influence social norm perceptions as well as behavior in various moral domains, but is the tendency to be influenced by and conform with peers domain-general? In an online experiment (N = 815), we studied peer effects in honesty and cooperation and tested the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083953
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On peer effects : contagion of pro- and anti-social behavior and the role of social cohesion
Dimant, Eugen - 2017 - This Version: April 2017
Little is known about the underlying mechanisms of behavioral contagion, in particular with respect to differences in contagion of pro- versus anti-social behavior. Our principal contribution is the use of a novel experimental approach that enables us to analyze the contagion of behavior under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011660748
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Gender differences in willingness to compete : the role of culture and institutions
Booth, Alison L.; Fan, Elliott; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2016
norms, including the promotion of gender equality in place of the Confucian view of female 'inferiority'. Market … consequence social norms gradually changed again. In our experiment we investigate gender differences in competitive choices … regimes outlined above. In particular we investigate gender differences in competitive choices for different birth cohorts in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581634
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The individual and joint performance of economic preferences, personality, and self-control in predicting criminal behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235856
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Determinants of Trust : the Role of Personal Experiences
Schwerter, Frederik; Zimmermann, Florian - 2021
Social interactions pervade daily life and thereby create an abundance of social experiences. Such personal experiences likely shape what we believe and who we are. In this paper, we ask if and how personal experiences from social interactions determine individuals’ inclination to trust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315368
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Gender differences and dynamics in competition : the role of luck
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2010
, and differential responses to luck account for about half of the gender performance gap in our experiment. These findings … into tournaments at a lower rate than men. -- Behavioral preferences ; real effort experiment ; gender differences ; gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003983612