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The focusing and informational effects of norms on pro-social behavior

Krupka, Erin; Weber, Roberto A. - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 30 (2009) 3, pp. 307-320

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Personal norms - and not only social norms - shape economic behavior

Bašić, Zvonimir; Verrina, Eugenio - 2020 - Revised December 2020

While social norms have received great attention within economics, little is known about the role of personal norms. We … propose a simple utility framework - which assumes that people care about monetary payoff, social norms, and personal norms … - and design a novel two-part experiment to investigate the predictive value of personal norms across four economic games …

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Mandatory minimum contributions, heterogenous endowments and voluntary public-good provision

Keser, Claudia; Markstädter, Andreas; Schmidt, Martin - 2014

In a public-good experiment with heterogeneous endowments, we investigate if and how the contribution level as well as the previously observed "fair-share" rule of equal contributions relative to oneś endowment (Hofmeyr et al., 2007; Keser et al., 2014) may be influenced by minimum-contribution...

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Social identity strategies in recent economics

Davis, John Bryan - 2005

This paper reviews three distinct strategies in recent economics for using the concept of social identity in the explanation of individual behavior: Akerlof and Kranton’s neoclassical approach, Sen’s commitment approach, and Kirman et al.’s complexity approach. The primary focus is the...

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Voting on a sharing norm in a dictator game

Vanberg, Christoph - 2007

I conduct an experiment to assess whether majority voting on a nonbinding sharing norm affects subsequent behavior in a dictator game. In a baseline treatment, subjects play a one shot dictator game. In a voting treatment, subjects are first placed behind a 'veil of ignorance' and vote on the...

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Self-serving dictators

Asheim, Geir B.; Helland, Leif; Hovi, Jon; Hoyland, Bjorn - 2008

We provide experimental evidence of self-serving fairness ideals in a dictator game design that includes treatments where funds can be transferred in two ways to the one player and in one way to the other. Two methods for transferring funds to the recipient produce the same results as the...

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Inequity aversion, reciprocity, and appropriateness in the ultimatum-revenge game

Nicklisch, Andreas (contributor) - 2008

that mix both motives. The laboratory experiments indicate considerable heterogeneity of motives. A majority of subjects …

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On the costs of kindness : an experimental investigation of guilty minds and negative reciprocity

Schubert, Manuel; Lambsdorff, Johann - 2012

Psychology has inspired economics to recognize intentions in addition to outcomes as being relevant for utility and behavior. Reciprocal behavior, in particular, has been related to the kindness of chosen actions and how kindness can be derived from the benefits obtained in unchosen...

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Does willful ignorance deflect punishment? : an experimental study

Bartling, Björn; Engl, Florian; Weber, Roberto A. - 2013

This paper studies whether people can avoid punishment by remaining willfully ignorant about possible negative consequences of their actions for others. We employ a laboratory experiment, using modified dictator games in which a dictator can remain willfully ignorant about the payoff...

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The values of ex-ante and ex-post communication in dictator games

Langenbach, Pascal - 2014

In the dictator game, the recipient's opportunity to send a message to the dictator increases giving. This paperreports two experimentswhich study how the timing of messages affects dictators' decisions (experiment 1) and which value recipients attach to communication opportunities (experiment...

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