present results from a laboratory experiment in which two parties can appropriate resources via a contest or, alternatively …, take an outside option. Keeping monetary gains expected from fighting constant across all treatments, the experiment … compares conflict choices of players in two-against-two, one-against-one, and two-against-one settings. Overall, we find …

in reported standard errors and confidence intervals. We provide a framework for studying heterogeneity in the social … incorporating the uncertainty due to heterogeneity would approximately double sample standard errors and confidence intervals. We …

Our study compares individual and team bidding in standard auction formats: first-price, second-price and ascending …-price (English) auctions with independent private values. In a laboratory experiment, we find that individuals overbid more than …

Team decision-making prevails in modern organizations. Teams often need to decide whether to delegate or make a … reaching a decision have very high intrinsic values of decision rights, thus distorting decisions. Hence, the team decision … decision themselves. Recent work has found that many individuals assign a significantly positive intrinsic value to having a …

In a laboratory experiment we test the interaction effects of status and group identity on interpersonal trust. Natural … the disadvantaged group that nevertheless achieve the status of expert) trust less both in-group and out-group trustees … interacting with promoted individuals impacts trust or trustworthiness. …

While most papers_new on team decision-making find teams to behave more selfish, less trusting and less altruistic than … dictator game. In our experiment teams are more selfish than individuals, and the most selfish team member has the strongest …-subjects design we re-examine group polarization by letting subjects make individual as well as team decisions in an experimental …