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Identity, utility, and cooperative behaviour : an evolutionary perspective

Wichardt, Philipp C. - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 113 (2011) 2, pp. 418-443

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Social influences towards conformism in economic experiments

Heap, Shaun Hargreaves - 2014

This paper reviews some of the economic experimental evidence on conformism. There is nothing to match the early psychology experiments where subjects were often swayed by the behaviour of others to an extraordinary degree, but there is plenty of evidence of conformism. This seems built-in to...

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Hate Trumps love : the impact of political polarization on social preferences

Dimant, Eugen - 2021

Political polarization has ruptured the fabric of U.S. society. I quantify this phenomenon through the use of 5 pre-registered studies, comprising 15 behavioral experiments and a diverse set of over 8,600 participants. The focus of this paper is to examine various behavioral-, belief-, and...

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Rules, perception and the intelligibility of laboratory experiments on social interaction in economics

Kimbrough, Erik O. - In: Contemporary methods and Austrian economics, (pp. 35-53). 2022

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Hate trumps love: the impact of political polarization on social preferences

Dimant, Eugen - 2020

Political polarization has ruptured the fabric of U.S. society. The focus of this paper is to examine various layers of (non-)strategic decision-making that are plausibly affected by political polarization through the lens of one's feelings of hate and love for Donald J. Trump. In several...

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Do injunctive or descriptive social norms elicited using coordination games better explain social preferences?

Schmidt, Robert J. - 2019

We experimentally study the relationship between social norms and social preferences on the individual level. Subjects coordinate on injunctive and descriptive norms, and we test which type of norm is more strongly related to behavior in a series of dictator games. Our experiment yields three...

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Do economists punish less?

Kaiser, Jonas Pilgaard; Pedersen, Kasper Selmar; Koch, … - In: Games 9 (2018) 4/75, pp. 1-17

A number of studies discuss whether and how economists differ from other disciplines in the amount that they contribute to public goods. We view this debate as incomplete because it neglects the willingness to sanction non-cooperative behavior, which is crucial for maintaining social order and...

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The bonus-income donation norm

Drouvelis, Michalis; Isen, Adam; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2019

Can social norms affect fundamental patterns of behavior such as income effects? Studies of determinants of giving to charities and other individuals yield a wide range of income-effect estimates. We conduct two experiments to first test whether the effect of income on charitable giving depends...

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The social preferences of democratically elected decision makers and the conflict between wealth generation and distribution

Gaudeul, Alexia; Keser, Claudia - 2017

. We test whether a democratic context influences the social preferences of decision makers in terms of efficiency …, altruism and concern for inequality. We find that decision makers who are selected democratically are generally more efficiency … distribution sometime conflict, efficiency is no higher with democratic leaders, although payoffs are more equal. We interpret our …

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Harsanyi's social aggregation theorem and the weak Pareto principle

Weymark, John Allan - 1992

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