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Diffusion of being pivotal and immoral outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2017

We study how the diffusion of being pivotal affects immoral outcomes. In a first set of experiments, subjects decide about agreeing to kill mice and receiving money versus objecting to kill mice and foregoing the monetary amount. In a baseline condition, subjects decide individually about the...

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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013

This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...

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Can communication mitigate strategic delays in investment timing?

Mermer, Ayse; Onderstal, Sander; Sonnemans, Joep - 2023

how communication mitigates this free-riding problem in an investment-timing game. In our baseline investment-timing game …. If more investors invest at the same time, they share the costs. In the communication treatment, subjects can freely … communicate before choosing the investment time. We find that in groups of two players, communication increases cooperation and …

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The effect of communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping

Conrads, Julian; Reggiani, Tommaso - 2014

This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a … helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to solicit unincentivized … cooperation, i.e., face-to-face, phone call and two different sorts of computer-mediated communication. The less anonymous (face …

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Ideological motives and group decision-making

Engl, Florian - 2020

This paper studies experimentally when and how ideological motives shape outcomes in group decision-making scenarios. Groups play a repeated coordination game in which they can agree on a payoff-dominant or a payoff-dominated but ideologically preferred outcome, or disagree and forego all...

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Do groups fight more? : experimental evidence on conflict initiation

Ke, Changxia; Morath, Florian; Seelos, Sophia - 2023

This paper investigates whether distributional conflicts become more likely when groups are involved in the fight. We present results from a laboratory experiment in which two parties can appropriate resources via a contest or, alternatively, take an outside option. Keeping monetary gains...

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Delegation to a group

Fehrler, Sebastian; Janas, Moritz - 2021

We study the choice of a principal to either delegate a decision to a group of careerist experts, or to consult them individually and keep the decision-making power. Our model predicts a trade-off between information acquisition and information aggregation. On the one hand, the expected benefit...

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Anti-social behavior in groups

Bauer, Michal; Cahlíková, Jana; Celik Katreniak, Dagmara - 2018

This paper provides strong evidence supporting the long-standing speculation that decision-making in groups has a dark side, by magnifying the prevalence of anti-social behavior towards outsiders. A large-scale experiment implemented in Slovakia and Uganda (N=2,309) reveals that deciding in a...

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Resolving persistent uncertainty by self-organized consensus to mitigate market bubbles

Sornette, Didier; Andraszewicz, Sandra; Murphy, Ryan O.; … - 2016

We propose a new paradigm to study coordination in complex social systems, such as financial markets, that accounts for fundamental uncertainty. This new context has features from prediction markets that have been shown previously to mitigate price bubbles in classical asset market experiments....

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Cheap-talk communication in procurement auctions : theory and experiment

Onderstal, Sander; Yang, Yang - 2020

auction is beneficial to the buyer compared to no communication and ex-ante communication. In a setting where the buyer and … the winning supplier have misaligned interests regarding the terms, the buyer benefits from ex-ante communication relative … to no communication and ex-post communication. Our experimental data provide strong evidence for the predictions in the …

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