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Letting off steam! : experimental evidence on inappropriate punishment
Khachatryan, Elina; Bühren, Christoph - 2020
Aggression is displaced when provocations cannot be directly retaliated against and when it is redirected towards a target innocent of any wrongdoing. While this phenomenon is widespread, it has not been widely explored in experimental economics. We fill this gap and find that a sizeable...
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Does willful ignorance deflect punishment? – An experimental study
Bartling, Björn; Engl, Florian; Weber, Roberto A. - In: European Economic Review 70 (2014) C, pp. 512-524
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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Self-Interest and Equity Concerns : A Behavioural Allocation Rule for Operational Problems
Osório C., António M. - 2017
In many economic situations, individuals with different bargaining power must agree on how to divide a given resource. For instance, in the dictator game the proposer has all the bargaining power. In spite of it, the majority of controlled experiments show that she shares an important amount of...
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Divided in Morals, United in Selfishness : An Experiment
Kurschilgen, Michael J. - 2020
People use moral wiggle room to behave selfish. But does a narrow wiggle room necessarily produce better social outcomes? When people disagree on normative goals, economic theories of self-image predict that narrowing the moral wiggle room will make choices not only less selfish but also even...
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Evidence from an Experiment on Charity to Welfare Recipients : Reciprocity, Altruism and the Empathic Responsiveness Hypothesis
Fong, Christina M. - 2007
This paper investigates the determinants of generosity in an experiment on charity to real-life welfare recipients. It …
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Guilt aversion and peer effects in crime: experimental and empirical evidence from Bangladesh
Shoji, Masahiro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
I conducted an artefactual field experiment to identify whether guilt reduces crime, and how the crime reduction …
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Strategic Self-Interest Can Explain Seemingly 'Fair' Offers in the Ultimatum Game
Wells, Jordan; Rand, David G. - 2013
Behavioral and economic analysis of law fundamentally depends on understanding what motivates individual actors. While it is often assumed that people care only about maximizing their own monetary payoff, recent experimental work has challenged this assumption. A canonical example involves...
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Helping the Helpers: Altruism As A Rational Choice of Donors to A Students Voluntary Organization
Cárdenas, Juan-Camilo; Espinosa, Miguel Andrés; … - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2009
the demand functions for altruism towards this charity, with policy implications related to the optimal design for …
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At the mercy of the prisoner next door: Using an experimental measure of selfishness as a criminological tool
Chmura, Thorsten; Engel, Christoph; Englerth, Markus; … - 2010
that reduce the degree of selfishness of their inmates? Using a tried and tested tool from experimental economics, we cast … calls for more refined versions of utility in rational choice theories of crime. Prisoners do not give less than average … improve their marks over time. This suggests that this correctional intervention also reduces selfishness. …
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At the Mercy of the Prisoner Next Door. Using an Experimental Measure of Selfishness as a Criminological Tool
Chmura, Thorsten; Engel, Christoph; Englerth, Markus; … - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2010
that reduce the degree of selfishness of their inmates? Using a tried and tested tool from experimental economics, we cast … calls for more refined versions of utility in rational choice theories of crime. Prisoners do not give less than average … improve their marks over time. This suggests that this correctional intervention also reduces selfishness. …
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