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Danilov, Anastasia; Khalmetski, Kiryl; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018

It has been argued that guilt aversion (the aversion to violate others' expectations) and the compliance to descriptive social norms (the aversion to act differently than others in the same situation) are important drivers of human behavior. We show in a formal model that both motives are...

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Committing the English and the continental way : an experiment

Engel, Christoph; Schmelzer, André - 2017

On the doctrinal surface, there is a deep divide between common and continental law when it comes to the origin of contractual obligations. Under continental law, in principle a unilateral promise suffices. Common law by contrast requires consideration. When it comes to deciding cases, the...

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Ownership effects in dictator games : evidence from an experimental study

Cuong Viet Nguyen; Linh Hoang Vu - 2022

In this study, we tested the effect of time delays on sharing behavior. We conducted a dictator game to examine whether dictators change their sharing behaviors if they have more time between receiving and sharing money. When the response time was 2 hours, the sharing behavior of dictators was...

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Anticipated communication in the ultimatum game

Capizzani, Mario; Mittone, Luigi; Musau, Andrew; … - In: Games 8 (2017) 3, pp. 1-20

will reject a low offer, it remains an open question whether anticipated verbal communication can be effective in … the form of anticipated verbal communication (no communication, one-sided communication from proposers and two …-sided communication) and find that offers are significantly higher in the presence of anticipated two-sided communication. However …

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Do People Care About Social Context? Framing Effects in Dictator Games

Dreber, Anna - 2012

Many previous experiments document that behavior in multi-person settings responds to the name of the game and the labeling of strategies. Usually these studies cannot tell whether frames affect preferences or beliefs. In this Dictator game study, we investigate whether social framing effects...

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The Effect of Own and Recipient Economic Status on the Dictator Game Giving of Adolescents : Experimental Evidence from India

Pulickal, Anuvinda; Chakravarty, Sujoy - 2022

We conduct dictator games in our artefactual field experiment with 11th and 12th grade students in New Delhi, India. We …

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Are happier people less judgmental of other people's selfish behaviors? : laboratory evidence from trust and gift exchange games

Drouvelis, Michalis; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2013

What determines people's moral judgments of selfish behaviors? Here we study whether people's normative views in trust and gift exchange games, which underlie many situations of economic and social significance, are themselves functions of positive emotions. We used experimental survey methods...

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Do reciprocators exploit or resist moral wiggle room? : an experimental analysis

Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2015

experiment, a trust game variant, we study whether moral wiggle room also prevails, when reciprocity is a potential motivation …

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Reciprocity under moral wiggle room : is it a preference or a constraint?

Regner, Tobias - 2016

We analyze reciprocal behavior when moral wiggle room exists. Dana et al. (2007) show that giving in a dictator game is only partly due to distributional preferences as the giving rate drops when situational excuses for selfish behavior are provided. Our binary trust game closely follows their...

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The role of interpersonal uncertainty in prosocial behavior

Chakraborty, Anujit; Henkel, Luca - 2024

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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