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When Ignorance Is Innocence : On Information Avoidance in Moral Dilemmas

van der Weele, Joel J. - 2019

Avoiding information about adverse welfare consequences of self-interested decisions, or "strategic ignorance", is an important source of corruption, anti-social behavior and even atrocities. I show how existing experimental results on strategic ignorance can be rationalized as an equilibrium...

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Exploration in Teams and the Encouragement Effect : Theory and Experimental Evidence

von Essen, Emma; Huysentruyt, Marieke; Miettinen, Topi - 2019

This paper analyzes a two-person, two-stage model of sequential exploration, where both information and payoff externalities exist, and tests the derived hypotheses in the laboratory. We theoretically show that even when agents are self-interested and perfectly rational, the information...

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Learning and Transfer of Learning with No Feedback : An Experimental Test Across Games

Weber, Roberto A. - 2003

learning might take place. The current paper extends this previous work. Using an experiment in which subjects play four games … without feedback, the experiment allows a stronger test of "no-feedback learning" as well as a better understanding of the …

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Strategic Ignorance in Bargaining

Conrads, Julian - 2011

rather than weakness. We test and confirm Schelling's conjecture in a simple take-it-or-leave bargaining experiment where the …

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Equilibrium Play and Learning in a Stochastic Public Goods Experiment

Banerjee, Priyodorshi - 2012

The public goods problem or the “tragedy of the commons,” (Hardin, 1968) either viewed as a problem of extraction or that of contribution has had a rich history in Economics and indeed in other social sciences like Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science. Our research examines free...

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Belief Formation in a Signalling Game Without Common Prior : An Experiment

Possajennikov, Alex - 2013

Using belief elicitation, the paper investigates the formation and the evolution of beliefs in a signalling game in which a common prior on Sender's type is not induced. Beliefs are elicited about the type of the Sender and about the strategies of the players. The experimental subjects often...

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Bracelets of Pride and Guilt? An Experimental Test of Self-Signaling in Charitable Giving

van der Weele, Joel J. - 2014

experiment subjects divide 20 euros between themselves and a charity. Some randomly determined participants are induced to wear a … bracelet for the two weeks following their donation decision. This bracelet serves as a private reminder of the experiment … remember the experiment in the following two weeks …

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Meaningful Learning and Transfer of Learning in Games Played Repeatedly Without Feedback

Rick, Scott; Weber, Roberto A. - 2009

Psychologists have long recognized two kinds of learning: one that is relatively shallow and domain-specific; and another that is deeper, producing generalizable insights that transfer across domains. The game theory literature has only recently considered this distinction, and the conditions...

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Cross-Game Learning and Cognitive Ability in Auctions

Giebe, Thomas; Kocher, Martin G.; Schudy, Simeon; … - 2021

Overbidding in second-price auctions (SPAs) has been shown to be persistent and associated with cognitive ability. We study experimentally to what extent cross-game learning can reduce overbidding in SPAs, taking into account cognitive skills. Employing an order-balanced design, we use...

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Privacy concerns, voluntary disclosure of information, and unraveling : an experiment

Benndorf, Volker; Kübler, Dorothea; Normann, Hans-Theo - 2013

We study the voluntary revelation of private, personal information in a labor-market experiment with a lemons structure …

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