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The stability and fragility of fairness : how individual concerns for justice affect human perception, emotion, and behavior

Lotz, Sebastian - 2010

This dissertation addresses human decision making in justice-related contexts. Experiments involving second and third party fairness situations as well as consumer psychological contexts show how people care about justice. Further, individual difference measures (justice sensitivity) help to...

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Capturing the complexity of human strategic decision-making with machine learning

Zhu, Jian-Qiao; Peterson, Joshua; Enke, Benjamin; … - 2024

Understanding how people behave in strategic settings–where they make decisions based on their expectations about the behavior of others–is a longstanding problem in the behavioral sciences. We conduct the largest study to date of strategic decision-making in the context of initial play in...

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On difference between direct-response method and strategy method in decision-making : behavioural and neural evidence in a reward-punishment game

Li, Luyao; Zhao, Xiaobo; Xie, Dong; Xue, Xiao - In: Journal of the Operational Research Society 75 (2024) 9, pp. 1681-1698

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How cognitive skills affect strategic behavior : cognitive ability, fluid intelligence and judgment

Gill, David; Knepper, Zachary; Prowse, Victoria; Zhou, Junya - 2024

We explore the influence of cognitive ability and judgment on strategic behavior in the beauty contest game (where the Nash equilibrium action is zero). Using the level-k model of bounded rationality, cognitive ability and judgment both predict higher level strategic thinking. However,...

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On the basis of (mis)trust? : spousal trust and trustworthiness in household decision making: experimental evidence from India

Sternberg, Henrike; Steinert, Janina; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2021 - This version: April 11, 2021

This paper examines the role of spousal trust in intra-household decision making through its potential of inciting the creation of information asymmetries in the presence of resource unobservability. We experimentally elicit spousal trust and trustworthiness by means of a binary trust game to...

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The framing of games and the psychology of play

Dufwenberg, Martin; Gächter, Simon; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike - 2010

Psychological game theory can provide rational-choice-based framing effects; frames influence beliefs, beliefs …

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Gender differences and dynamics in competition: The role of luck

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2010

We present experimental evidence which sheds new light on why women may be less competitive than men. Specifically, we observe striking differences in how men and women respond to good and bad luck in a competitive environment. Following a loss, women tend to reduce effort, and the effect is...

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Informational requirements of nudging

Benkert, Jean-Michel; Netzer, Nick - 2015 - This version: April 2015, First version: November 2014

A nudge is a non-coercive paternalistic intervention that attempts to improve choices by manipulating the framing of a …

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How behavioural economics does and can shape public policy

Leigh, Andrew - In: The economic and labour relations review : ELRR 26 (2015) 2, pp. 339-346

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Willpower depletion and framing effects

Haan, Thomas de; Veldhuizen, Roel van - 2013

depletion should increase framing effects. To test this we designed two experiments in which we depleted participants' willpower … susceptible to framing effects. Recent research in social psychology and economics has suggested that willpower is a resource that … of contexts. In this study, we extend the willpower depletion paradigm to framing effects and argue that willpower …

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