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Chapter 11 Natural Kantian or ZOO ECONOMICUS ? Evolutionary theories of selfishness and altruism among men and beasts
Bergstrom, Theodore C. - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 771-817). 2006
This paper addresses the question of whether our evolutionary history suggests that humans are likely to be individually selected selfish maximizers or group selected altruists. It surveys models from the literature of evolutionary biology in which groups are formed and dissolved and where the...
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A model for coopetitive games
Carfì, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In the present introductory work we propose an original analytical model of coopetitive game. We suggest possible general and feasible solutions; in particular, from a coopetitive perspective, we suggest compromise solutions - for our coopetitive game, by using Kalai-Smorodinsky method.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109139
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Competing social identities and intergroup discrimination : evidence from a framed field experiment with high school students in Vietnam
Tam Kiet Vuong; Chan, Ho Fai; Torgler, Benno - 2021
that group identity is a key factor in the explanation of intergroup cooperation and competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419371
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Do people care about context? Framing effects in dictator games
Dreber, Anna; Ellingsen, Tore; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2011
Many previous experiments document that behavior in multi-person settings responds to the name of the game and the labeling of strategies. Usually these studies cannot tell whether frames affect preferences or beliefs. In this Dictator game study, we investigate whether social framing effects...
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Competing social identities and intergroup discrimination: Evidence from a framed field experiment with high school students in Vietnam
Chan, Ho Fai; Torgler, Benno - 2021
that group identity is a key factor in the explanation of intergroup cooperation and competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012534379
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Do People Care about Social Context? Framing Effects in Dictator Games
Dreber, Anna; Ellingsen, Tore; Johannesson, Magnus; … - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2011
Many previous experiments document that behavior in multi-person settings responds to the name of the game and the labeling of strategies. Usually these studies cannot tell whether frames affect preferences or beliefs. In this Dictator game study, we investigate whether social framing effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323350
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Games with Synergistic Preferences
Jamison, Julian - In: Games 3 (2012) 1, pp. 41-55
used in many applied situations where altruism, or a baser motive, is implied. …
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Skew Selection: Nature Favors a Trickle-Down Distribution of Resources in Ants
Cassill, Deby - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 5 (2003) 2, pp. 83-96
Synopsis: According to skew selection, ant queens are neither ruthlessly selfish nor blindly altruistic; they are shrewd investors. The goal of shrewd investors is not to win the game, but to continue play over evolutionary time. Skew selection describes a set of investment strategies employed by...
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Should law keep pace with society? : relative update rates determine the co-evolution of institutional punishment and citizen contributions to public goods
Roithmayr, Daria; Isakov, Alexander; Rand, David - In: Games 6 (2015) 2, pp. 124-149
Until recently, theorists considering the evolution of human cooperation have paid little attention to institutional … maximize compliance? We investigate this question by modeling the co-evolution of law and cooperation in a public goods game …' updating of their contribution strategy and observe the effect on Citizen cooperation. We find that when States have unlimited …
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Behavioral polymorphism in Bayesian games
Fabella, Raul V. - 2016
there always is a high enough assignment such that cooperation is the dominant strategy for both players in initially social …
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