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Do people care about context? Framing effects in dictator games
Dreber, Anna; Ellingsen, Tore; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2011
labeling of strategies. Usually these studies cannot tell whether frames affect preferences or beliefs. In this Dictator game … which case the frame may only affect preferences. We find that behavior is insensitive to social framing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286337
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Increasing Altruistic and Cooperative Behaviour with Simple Moral Nudges
Capraro, Valerio - 2019
The conflict between pro-self and pro-social behaviour is at the core of many key problems of our time, as, for example, the reduction of air pollution and the redistribution of scarce resources. For the well-being of our societies, it is thus crucial to find mechanisms to promote pro-social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012900728
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Do people care about context? : framing effects in dictator games
Dreber, Anna; Ellingsen, Tore; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2011 - This version: 13 September 2011
; preferences ; framing effects ; altruism ; cooperation … labeling of strategies. Usually these studies cannot tell whether frames affect preferences or beliefs. In this Dictator game … which case the frame may only affect preferences. We find that behavior is insensitive to social framing. -- beliefs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009304712
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A Welfare-Tradeoff-Ratio-Model of Social Preferences
Hartig, Bjoern - Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and … - 2011
This paper introduces a model of social preferences featuring a single parameter representing an individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321049
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Group selection: The quest for social preferences
Salomonsson, Marcus - 2009
This paper surveys the literature on group selection. I describe the early contributions and the group selection controversy. I also describe the main approaches to group selection in the recent literature; fixation, assortative group formation, and reproductive externalities.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281286
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Group selection : the quest for social preferences
Salomonsson, Marcus - 2009
formation, and reproductive externalities. -- Altruism ; spite ; externalities ; conformity ; fixation ; signalling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811816
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Group Selection: The quest for social preferences
Salomonsson, Marcus - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2009
This paper surveys the literature on group selection. I describe the early contributions and the group selection controversy. I also describe the main approaches to group selection in the recent literature; fixation, assortative group formation, and reproductive externalities.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005649512
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Intuition, Deliberation, and Cooperation : Further Meta-Analytic Evidence from 91 Experiments on Pure Cooperation
Rand, David G. - 2019
What is the role of intuitive versus deliberative cognitive processing in human cooperation? The Social Heuristics …-maximizing), and that for most people cooperation is typically advantageous due to mechanisms such as repetition, reputation, and …, the SHH predicts that in the context of pure cooperation – where non-cooperation is strictly payoff – maximizing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870482
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Gender Differences in Altruism on Mechanical Turk : Expectations and Actual Behaviour
Brañas-Garza, Pablo - 2018
Whether or not there are gender differences in altruistic behaviour in Dictator Game experiments has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Earlier studies found women to be more altruistic than men. However, this conclusion has been challenged by more recent accounts, which have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936008
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When are Women More Generous than Men?
Deck, Cary A. - 2010
Previous research on gender differences in behavior has led to seemingly contradictory findings about generosity. From data generated by 290 subject pairs, we find that women are more sensitive than men to the costs of generous actions when deciding whether to be generous. The factors that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012716977