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This paper reports results from a classroom dictator game comparing the effects of three different sets of standard instructions. As was shown by Oxoby and Spraggon (2008), inducing a feeling of entitlement - one subject earning the endowment - strongly affects allocations in dictator games...
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This paper reports results from a classroom dictator game comparing the effects of three different sets of standard instructions. The results show that seemingly small differences in instructions induce fundamentally different perceptions regarding entitlement. Behavior is affected accordingly,...
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To identify dual-process reasoning in giving, we exposed experimental participants making a charitable donation to vivid images of the charity’s beneficiaries in order to stimulate affect. We hypothesized that the effect of an affective manipulation on giving would be larger when we...
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In prosocial decisions, decision-makers are inherently uncertain about how their decisions impact others’ utility – we call this interpersonal uncertainty. We show that people’s response to interpersonal uncertainty shapes well-known patterns of prosocial behavior. First, using standard...
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In prosocial decisions, decision-makers are inherently uncertain about how their decisions impact others' utility - we call this interpersonal uncertainty. We show that people's response to interpersonal uncertainty shapes well-known patterns of prosocial behavior. First, using standard social...
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influenced by their observability due to underlying social norms and social image concerns. This study investigates the impact of …' investments in a risky asset directly to social norms for risk taking that are elicited in an incentivized procedure. I find that … risk taking is not affected by the choice being observed by a matched participant. Nor do investments follow elicited norms …
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prisoner's dilemma (PD) game. Whereas the existing literature on third-party intervention as a means to sustain social norms …
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We conduct a laboratory experiment to investigate the impact of institutions and institutional choice on truth-telling and trust in sender-receiver games. We find that in an institution with sanctioning opportunities, receivers sanction predominantly after having trusted lies. Individuals who...
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prisoner's dilemma (PD) game. Whereas the existing literature on third-party intervention as a means to sustain social norms … steady downward trend of cooperation rates. -- social norms ; third-party reward ; third-party observation ; prisoner …
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collective of insured individuals or the taxpayers) bearing the costs. Professional norms are viewed as restraining physicians … of professional norms on prospective physicians' trade-offs between her own profits, the patients' benefits, and the … payers' expenses for medical care. We find that professional norms derived from the Hippocratic tradition shift weight to the …
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