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The jurisdiction of the man within : introspection, identity, and cooperation in a public good experiment
Engel, Christoph; Kurschilgen, Michael - 2015
introspection on people’s willingness to cooperate in a public good game. Drawing on the concept of identity utility (George A …) expectations. Our results show that introspection causally increases cooperation. Both home-grown idealism and the experiences with …According to Adam Smith (1790), human selfishness can be restrained by introspection. We test the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010459020
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The Jurisdiction of the Man Within – Introspection, Identity, and Cooperation in a Public Good Experiment
Engel, Christoph; Kurschilgen, Michael - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2015
introspection on people’s willingness to cooperate in a public good game. Drawing on the concept of identity utility (George A …) expectations. Our results show that introspection causally increases cooperation. Both home-grown idealism and the experiences with …According to Adam Smith (1790), human selfishness can be restrained by introspection. We test the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011194285
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Can we manage first impressions in cooperation problems? An experiment
Engel, Christoph; Kube, Sebastian; Kurschilgen, Michael - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2011
We study how cooperative behavior reacts to selective (favorable or unfavorable) pre-play information about the cooperativeness of other, unrelated groups within an experimental framework that is sufficiently rich for conflicting behavioral norms to emerge. We find that cooperation crucially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021692
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Economic incentives and social preferences : a preference-based Lucas critique of public policy
Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009
Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872219
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Fair share and social efficiency : a mechanism in which peers decide on the payoff division
Dong, Lu; Falvey, Rodney E.; Luckraz, Shravan - 2016
achieved under this simple mechanism and, in a controlled laboratory experiment, we find that players use a proportional rule …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515831
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Intuition, Deliberation, and Cooperation : Further Meta-Analytic Evidence from 91 Experiments on Pure Cooperation
Rand, David G. - 2019
What is the role of intuitive versus deliberative cognitive processing in human cooperation? The Social Heuristics Hypothesis (SHH) stipulates that (i) intuition favors behaviors that are typically advantageous (i.e. long-run payoff-maximizing), and that for most people cooperation is typically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870482
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Cooperation, Decision Time, and Culture : Online Experiments with American and Indian Participants
Nishi, Akihiro - 2017
Two separate bodies of work have examined whether culture affects cooperation in economic games and whether cooperative or non-cooperative decisions occur more quickly. Here, we connect this work by exploring the relationship between decision time and cooperation in American versus Indian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968930
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Moral Judgments in Social Dilemmas : How Bad is Free Riding?
Cubitt, Robin P.; Drouvelis, Michalis; Gaechter, Simon; … - 2021
In the last thirty years, economists and other social scientists have investigated people’s normative views on distributive justice. Here we study people’s normative views in social dilemmas, which underlie many situations of economic and social significance. Using insights from moral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316140
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Moral judgments in social dilemmas : how bad is free riding?
Cubitt, Robin P.; Drouvelis, Michalis; Gaechter, Simon; … - 2010
In the last thirty years, economists and other social scientists have investigated people's normative views on distributive justice. Here we study people's normative views in social dilemmas, which underlie many situations of economic and social significance. Using insights from moral philosophy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008699694
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Talking behind your back : asymmetric communication in a three-person dilemma
Abbink, Klaus; Dong, Lu; Huang, Lingbo - 2018
Communication has been regarded as one of the most effective devices in promoting team cooperation. But asymmetric communication sometimes breeds collusion and is detrimental to team efficiency. Here, we present experimental evidence showing that excluding one member from team communication...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011912001