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Intentions, Insincerity, and Prosocial Behavior
Amegashie, J. Atsu - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2007
). The proposer may be altruistic towards the responder either out of a genuine desire to make her happy or out of guilt. The … responder derives disutility from apparent acts of altruism motivated by guilt because she considers them to be insincere. She … interdependent preference types under incomplete information where the responder cares about the intentions behind the proposer …
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Intentions, Insincerity, and Prosocial Behavior
Amegashie, J. Atsu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
). The proposer may be altruistic towards the responder either out of a genuine desire to make her happy or out of guilt. The … responder derives disutility from apparent acts of altruism motivated by guilt because she considers them to be insincere. She … interdependent preference types under incomplete information where the responder cares about the intentions behind the proposer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835512
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Intentions and Social Interactions
Amegashie, J. Atsu - CESifo - 2006
will affect your payoffs. I model intentions in a dynamic psychological game under incomplete information. I find a complex …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405941
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A Psychological Game with Interdependent Preference Types
Amegashie, J. Atsu - CESifo - 2006
In psychological games, higher-order beliefs, emotions, and motives - in addition to actions - affect players’ payoffs. Suppose you are invited to a party, movie, dinner, etc not because your company is desired but because the inviter would feel guilty if she did not invite you. In all of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406342
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Complementarities, Coordination, and Culture
Ellis, Christopher J.; Thompson, Jon C.; Wu, Jiabin - 2016
We develop a new model of the intergenerational transmission of culture based on the labor market characteristics of different cultural types. Following Borjas (1994,1995) we assume that cultural heterogeneity increases labor productivity due to skill complementarities, however following Jackson...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522449
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Stigma and social control
Blume, Lawrence E. - 2002
Social interactions provide a set of incentives for regulating individual behavior. Chief among these is stigma, the status loss and discrimination that results from the display of stigmatized attributes or behaviors. The stigmatization of behavior is the enforcement mechanism behind social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725488
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Complementarities, coordination, and culture
Ellis, Christopher J.; Thompson, Jon C.; Wu, Jiabin - 2016
We develop a new model of the intergenerational transmission of culture based on the labor market characteristics of different cultural types. Following Borjas (1994,1995) we assume that cultural heterogeneity increases labor productivity due to skill complementarities, however following Jackson...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011488100
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Geographic variations in a model of physician treatment choice with social interactions
Burke, Mary A.; Fournier, Gary M.; Prasad, Kislaya - 2009
Location-specific norms of behavior are a widespread phenomenon. In the case of medical practice, numerous studies have found that geographic location exerts a strong influence on the choice of treatments and procedures. This paper shows how the presence of social influence on treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003844508
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Local Interactions
Özgür, Onur - 2010
Local interactions refer to social and economic phenomena where individuals' choices are influenced by the choices of others who are 'close' to them socially or geographically. This represents a fairly accurate picture of human experience. Furthermore, since local interactions imply particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137815
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Online networks, social interaction and segregation : an evolutionary approach
Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio - 2018
There is growing evidence that face-to-face interaction is declining in many countries, exacerbating the phenomenon of social isolation. On the other hand, social interaction through online networking sites is steeply rising. To analyze these societal dynamics, we have built an evolutionary game...
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