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An eye-tracking study of feature-based choice in one-shot games

Devetag, Giovanna; Di Guida, Sibilla; Polonio, Luca - 2013

We analyze subjects' eye movements while they make decisions in a series of one-shot games. The majority of them perform a partial and selective analysis of the payoff matrix, often ignoring the payoffs of the opponent and/or paying attention only to specific cells. Our results suggest that...

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

Langenbach, Pascal - 2014

two experimentswhich study how the timing of messages affects dictators' decisions (experiment 1) and which value … recipients attach to communication opportunities (experiment 2). The first experiment shows that the effect of communication on …, recipients in a second experiment reveal a strong preference for pre-decision messages: Their willingnessto pay for pre …

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Bracelets of pride and guilt? : an experimental test of self-signaling in charitable giving

Weele, Joël J. van der; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2014

experiment subjects divide 20 euros between themselves and a charity. Some randomly determined participants are induced to wear a … bracelet for the two weeks following their donation decision. This bracelet serves as a private reminder of the experiment … remember the experiment in the following two weeks. …

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Concern for relative standing and deception

Galanis, Spyros; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2014

We report results from a sender-receiver deception game, which tests whether an individual's decision to deceive is influenced by a concern for relative standing in a reference group. The sender ranks six possible outcomes, each specifying a payoff for him and the receiver. A message is then...

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The effect of belief elicitation game play : conference paper

Hoffmann, Timo - 2014

beliefs are widely used in economics. In this paper I experimentally test whether the second assumption is correct. Especially …

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Do Liars Believe? Beliefs and Other-Regarding Preferences in Disclosure Settings

Shields, Timothy W. - 2015

other-regarding preferences. The results of the experiment indicate that 60 percent of senders adopt deceptive strategies by …

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Lies and Reciprocity in Economic and Social Interactions

Sasaki, Shunichiro - 2020

We study experimentally how (un)selfish lies are reciprocated – or not – in subsequent economic interactions in the labor market. We find that while selfish lies are punished (negative reciprocity), prosocial and altruistic lies are neither punished nor rewarded (lack of positive...

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Are Imitative Strategies Game Specific? Experimental Evidence from Market Games

O'Higgins, Niall - 2007

This paper studies imitation in price and quantity markets. We analyse the results of two experiments designed with different information settings. The analysis shows that information is used differently and has diverse effects according to the market model under investigation

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Less Sensitive Reputation Spurs Cooperation : An Experiment on Noisy Reputation Systems

Greiff, Matthias - 2018

Using a repeated public good game with stranger matching, we compare how two different reputation systems with endogenous evaluations affect rates of cooperation. Contributions are public information and each participant evaluates her partner's contribution. At the beginning of each period,...

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The Effect of Social Information in the Dictator Game with a Taking Option

O'Garra, Tanya - 2019

We experimentally study how redistribution choices are affected by positive and negative information regarding the behaviour of a previous participant in a dictator game with a taking option. We use the strategy method to identify behavioural ‘types', and thus distinguish ‘conformists' from...

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