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-social acts? In a laboratory experiment, we find that third parties punish reluctantly: they state a preference to punish, but …
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-social acts? In a laboratory experiment, we find that third parties punish reluctantly: they state a preference to punish, but …
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' concern for fairness, and the tradeoff the disadvantaged player makes between pursuing a fair outcome from a disadvantaged … weak players persist in seeking "fairness" is also a function of how much it (potentially) costs them to do so. Students …-cost bargainers to demand fairness and to persist in their demands was a function of how much it cost them to do so, and the degree to …
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In the Solidarity Game (Selten and Ockenfels, 1998), two "rich" persons can support a "poor" one. A strong positive correlation between one rich person's solidarity contribution and his expected contribution of the other is observed. This paper investigates the causality behind this correlation....
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We experimentally study behavior in a simple voting game where players have private information about their preferences. With random matching, subjects overwhelmingly follow the dominant strategy to exaggerate their preferences, which leads to inefficiency. We analyze an exogenous linking...
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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...
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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...
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We investigate the effect of a donation incentive tied to contributions to a public good when group members can decide on the size of the donation to be made. An up to 20 % donation of the public good was implemented either exogenously or endogenously by group members. In the Vote treatment,...
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engage in selfless, group-beneficial acts. This paper presents the results of an experiment designed to quantify the extent …
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