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The benefit of the doubt : willful ignorance and altruistic punishment
Stüber, Robert - 2019
Altruistic punishment is often thought to be a major enforcement mechanism of social norms. I present experimental … results from a modified version of the dictator game with third-party punishment, in which third parties can remain ignorant … initial ignorance. Remaining ignorant and choosing not to punish is not inappropriate. As a result, altruistic punishment is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119648
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Deviant or wrong? : the effects of norm information on the efficacy of punishment
Bicchieri, Cristina; Dimant, Eugen; Xiao, Erte - 2017 - This version: November 13, 2017
a penalty and excuse their selfish behavior. We address the question of punishment legitimacy in our experiment by …A stream of research examining the effect of punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead … shedding light upon the importance of social norms and their interplay with punishment mechanisms. We show that the separate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011758417
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Deviant or wrong? : the effects of norm information on the efficacy of punishment
Bicchieri, Cristina; Dimant, Eugen; Xiao, Erte - 2020 - This version: August 11, 2020
A stream of research examining the effect of punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead … enforcement, enabling agents to justify selfish behavior. We address the question of punishment legitimacy by shedding light upon … the importance of social norms and their interplay with punishment. People are often presented with incomplete norm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270568
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Letting off steam! : experimental evidence on inappropriate punishment
Khachatryan, Elina; Bühren, Christoph - 2020
force of punishment, yet when treated fairly, some subjects (17%) exhibit status-seeking behavior. Moreover, students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012542938
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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300140
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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308480
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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298544
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Social preferences, beliefs and the dynamics of free riding in public good experiments
Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2009
One lingering puzzle is why voluntary contributions to public goods decline over time in experimental and real-world settings. We show that the decline of cooperation is driven by individual preferences for imperfect conditional cooperation. Many people's desire to contribute less than others,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003799823
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Social preferences, beliefs, and the dynamics of free riding in public good experiments
Fischbacher, Urs; Gaechter, Simon - 2008
We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit … individuals' cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them as well as subjects' elicited beliefs to explain contributions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003803507
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We are not alone : the impact of externalities on public good provision
Engel, Christoph; Rockenbach, Bettina - 2009
Providing public goods is hard, because providers are best off free-riding. Is it even harder if one group's public good is a public bad for another group or, conversely, gives the latter a windfall profit? We experimentally study public goods provision embedded in a social context and find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003877140