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dictator game. In our experiment teams are more selfish than individuals, and the most selfish team member has the strongest …While most papers_new on team decision-making find teams to behave more selfish, less trusting and less altruistic than …-subjects design we re-examine group polarization by letting subjects make individual as well as team decisions in an experimental …
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Initiated by the seminal work of Fehr and Fischbacher (Evolution and Human Behavior (2004)), a large body of research has shown that people often take punitive actions towards norm violators even when they are not directly involved in transactions. This paper shows in an experimental setting...
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We report a controlled laboratory experiment examining risk-taking and information aggregation in groups facing a … common risk. The experiment allows us to examine how subjects respond to new information, in the form of both privately …
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We study the effect of group size on cooperation in voluntary contribution mechanism games. As in previous experiments, we study four- and eight-person groups in high and low marginal per capita return (MPCR) conditions. We find a positive effect of group size in the low MPCR condition, as in...
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We report an experiment examining risk taking and information aggregation in groups. Group members come to the table …
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This paper tests social identity theory with respect to individuals' self-identification behavior. We report results … from a laboratory experiment in which subjects choose their group membership, which is interpreted as decision to identify … with the predictions from social identity theory: Subjects have a higher valuation for identifying with groups with a …
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