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Large effects of small cues : priming selfish economic decisions
Snir, Avichai; Levy, Dudi; Wang, Dian; Chen, Haipeng; … - 2024 - Revised: April 21, 2024
tradeoff between profit maximization (market norm) and workers' welfare (social norm). We use priming to manipulate the cues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014531967
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Religious identity, trust, reciprocity, and prosociality : theory and evidence
Dhami, Sanjit S.; Wei, Mengxing; Mamidi, Pavan - 2022
actions, for Hindu and Muslim subjects. Priming has little effect on Hindu subjects but it enhances religious polarization in … underlying assumptions on beliefs, and their dependence on priming and identity are confirmed by the data, identifying a precise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472415
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Eliciting utility curvature in time preference
Cheung, Stephen L. - 2019
This paper examines the effects of alternative assumptions regarding the curvature of utility upon estimated discount … the Holt and Laury method for risk. The results demonstrate that utility elicited directly from choice over time is … significantly concave, but far closer to linear than utility elicited under risk. As a result, the effect of adjusting discount …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012062699
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Subliminal influence on generosity
Andersson, Ola; Miettinen, Topi; Hytönen, Kaisa; … - 2015
We experimentally prime subjects subliminally prior to charity donation decisions by showing words that have connotations to prosocial values for a very short duration of time (17ms). Our main finding is that, compared to a baseline condition, the prosocial prime increases donations with about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011338842
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Revealed incomplete preferences under uncertainty
Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - 2015
The completeness axiom of choice has been questioned for long, and in response, theoretical models of decision making allowing for incomplete preferences have been developed. So far the theoretical accomplishments have however not been paired with empirical evidence on the actual existence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519933
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In-group favoritism and discrimination among multiple out-groups
Grimm, Veronika; Utikal, Verena; Valmasoni, Lorenzo - 2015
multiple out-groups. In a laboratory experiment, we use dictator games for five groups to compare actual transfers to in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529474
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Organizations, diffused pivotality and immoral outcomes
Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013
This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755329
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The roots of cooperation
Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021 - This version: 10 June 2021
Understanding the roots of human cooperation among strangers is of great importance for solving pressing social dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012547006
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The roots of cooperation
Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021 - This version: 10 June 2021
Understanding the roots of human cooperation among strangers is of great importance for solving pressing social dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012548855
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The roots of cooperation
Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021
Understanding the roots of human cooperation among strangers is of great importance for solving pressing social dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550258