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It hurts to ask
Bénabou, Roland; Jaroszewicz, Ania; Loewenstein, George F. - 2022
We analyze the offering, asking, and granting of help or other benefits as a three-stage game with bilateral private information between a person in need of help and a potential help-giver. Asking entails the risk of rejection, which can be painful: since unawareness of the need can no longer be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013382050
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It Hurts to Ask
Benabou, Roland; Jaroszewicz, Ania; Loewenstein, George - 2022
We analyze the offering, asking, and granting of help or other benefits as a three-stage game with bilateral private information between a person in need of help and a potential help-giver. Asking entails the risk of rejection, which can be painful: since unawareness of the need can no longer be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426425
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The solidarity motive
Engel, Christoph - 2016
solidarity (although the term is rarely used). Solidarity is a key concept in Catholic Social Teaching. This paper builds a …. Experimenters want to learn how much solidarity experimental participants exhibit when this is costly. But from a Catholic … perspective it is interesting how strongly their norms are reflected in actual behavior. The many distinctions uncovered by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011553331
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Do Economists Lie More?
López-Pérez, Raúl; Spiegelman, Eli - Departamento de Análisis Económico: Teoría … - 2012
Recent experimental evidence suggests that some people dislike telling lies, and tell the truth even at a cost. We use experiments as well to study the socio-demographic covariates of such lie aversion, and find gender and religiosity to be without predictive value. However, subjects’ major is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493765
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The Solidarity Motive
Engel, Christoph - 2016
solidarity (although the term is rarely used). Solidarity is a key concept in Catholic Social Teaching. This paper builds a …. Experimenters want to learn how much solidarity experimental participants exhibit when this is costly. But from a Catholic … perspective it is interesting how strongly their norms are reflected in actual behavior. The many distinctions uncovered by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981770
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Do Watching Eyes Affect Charitable Giving? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Ekström, Mathias - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2011
store. This result gives further support to the conclusion that subtle social cues can invoke reputation concerns in humans …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611631
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Games with synergistic preferences
Jamison, Julian C. - 2011
, yet it is straightforward enough to be used in many applied situations where altruism, or a baser motive, is implied. …
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Do people care about context? Framing effects in dictator games
Dreber, Anna; Ellingsen, Tore; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2011
Many previous experiments document that behavior in multi-person settings responds to the name of the game and the labeling of strategies. Usually these studies cannot tell whether frames affect preferences or beliefs. In this Dictator game study, we investigate whether social framing effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286337
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Cooperation, motivation and social balance
Bosworth, Steven; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452082
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Cooperation, motivation and social balance
Bosworth, Steven; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness", whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414267