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Revealed distributional preferences : individuals vs. teams

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin; … - 2013 - This version: 24 June 2013

We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...

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Revealed distributional preferences : individuals vs. teams

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin; … - 2013

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Why did he do that? : using counterfactuals to study the effect of intentions in extensive form games

Engler, Yola; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Page, Lionel - 2016

We investigate the role of intentions in two-player two-stage games. For this purpose we systematically vary the set of opportunity sets the first mover can chose from and study how the second mover reacts not only to opportunities of gains but also of losses created by the choice of the first...

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Flip a coin or vote : an experiment on choosing group decision

Hoffmann, Timo; Renes, Sander - 2016

Before a group can take a decision, its members must agree on a mechanism to aggregate individual preferences. In this paper we present the results of an experiment on the influence of private payoff information and the role of the available alternatives on individuals’ mechanism choices in...

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I lie? We lie! Why? : experimental evidence on a dishonesty shift in groups

Kocher, Martin; Schudy, Simeon; Spantig, Lisa - 2016

deciding as a group member. We observe a strong dishonesty shift. This shift is mainly driven by communication within groups …

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I lie? We lie! Why? : experimental evidence on an dishonesty shift

Kocher, Martin; Schudy, Simeon; Spantig, Lisa - 2016

deciding as a group member. We observe a strong dishonesty shift. This shift is mainly driven by communication within groups …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509462

The effect of communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping

Conrads, Julian; Reggiani, Tommaso - 2014

This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a … helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to solicit unincentivized … cooperation, i.e., face-to-face, phone call and two different sorts of computer-mediated communication. The less anonymous (face …

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Reducing strategic uncertainty increases group protection in collective risk social dilemmas

Steimanis, Ivo; Struwe, Natalie; Benda, Julian; Blanco, … - 2025 - This version: February 11, 2025

Interrelated global crises - climate change, pandemics, loss of ecosystem services and biodiversity - pose risks that demand collective solutions. Uncertainty about others' behavior, coupled with the dependence on some to take collective efforts to mitigate risks for all (e.g. conservation of...

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Ambiguity attitudes of individuals and groups in gain and loss domains

Minnich, Aljoscha; Lange, Andreas - 2023

This study measures the differences in ambiguity attitudes of groups and individuals in the gain and loss domain. We elicit the ambiguity attitudes and ambiguity-generated insensitivity for natural temperature events. We do not find significant differences between individuals and groups in our...

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Team reasoning as a guide to coordination

Lahno, Amrei M.; Lahno, Bernd - 2014

A particular problem of traditional Rational Choice Theory is that it cannot explain equilibrium selection in simple coordination games. In this paper we analyze and discuss the solution concept for common coordination problems as incorporated in the theory of Team Reasoning (TR). Special...

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