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The sound of others : surprising evidence of conformist behavior

Crosetto, Paolo; Filippin, Antonio - 2015

It has been shown that subjects tend to follow others' behavior even when the external signals are uninformative. In this paper we go one step further, showing that conformism occurs even when the choices of others are not even presented to the subjects, but just indirectly perceived. We use the...

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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence : a large-scale experiment

Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin; … - 2010

present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions … ; gender ; experiment …

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Giving in dictator games : experimenter demand effect or preference over the rules of the game?

Chlaß, Nadine; Moffatt, Peter G. - 2012

Traditionally, giving in dictator games was assumed to signal preferences over others' payoffs. To date, several studies find that dictator game giving breaks down under conditions designed to increase dictators' anonymity or if an option to take money obscures the purpose of the task. Giving is...

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Would you mind if I get more? : an experimental study of the envy game

Casal, Sandro; Güth, Werner; Jia, Mofei; Ploner, Matteo - 2011

Envy is often the cause of mutually harmful outcomes. We experimentally study the impact of envy in a bargaining setting in which there is no conflict in material interests: a proposer, holding the role of residual claimant, chooses the size of the pie to be shared with a responder, whose share...

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That's just - not fair : gender differences in notions of justice

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2015

In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences...

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That's just : not fair ; gender differences in notions of justice

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2015

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Revealed notions of distributive justice II : experimental evidence

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013

We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a "social planner" or a "veil of ignorance …" experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion … Agreement and Symmetry axioms proposed in BHH; we find that for 80% of participants the evidence is very strong. The experiment …

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The solidarity motive

Engel, Christoph - 2016

For decades, experimental economics has been very interested in behavior that could be characterized as practicing solidarity (although the term is rarely used). Solidarity is a key concept in Catholic Social Teaching. This paper builds a bridge between these two endeavors that, thus far, had...

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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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An ultimatum game with multidimensional response strategies

Güth, Werner; Levati, M. Vittoria; Nardi, Chiara; … - 2014

We enrich the choice task of responders in ultimatum games by allowing them to independently decide whether to collect what is offered to them and whether to destroy what the proposer demanded. Such a multidimensional response format intends to cast further light on the motives guiding responder...

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