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Cooperation, motivation and social balance
Bosworth, Steven; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness", whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414267
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Cooperation, motivation and social balance
Bosworth, Steven; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452082
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State or Nature? Formal vs. Informal Sanctioning in the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2011
The sanctioning of norm-violating behavior by an effective formal authority is an efficient solution for social dilemmas. It is in the self-interest of voters and is often favorably contrasted with letting citizens take punishment into their own hands. Allowing informal sanctions, by contrast,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836655
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Observed Punishment Spillover Effects: A Laboratory Investigation of Behavior in a Social Dilemma.
Dickinson, David; Dutcher, E. Glenn; Rodet, Cortney - Department of Economics and Finance, University of … - 2013
Punishment has been shown to be an effective reinforcement mechanism. Intentional or not, punishment will likely generate spillover effects that extend beyond one’s immediate decision environment, and these spillovers are not as well understood. We seek to understand these secondary spillover...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010822680
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State or nature? Formal vs. informal sanctioning in the voluntary provision of public goods
Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2011
The sanctioning of norm-violating behavior by an effective formal authority is an efficient solution for social dilemmas. It is in the self-interest of voters and is often favorably contrasted with letting citizens take punishment into their own hands. Allowing informal sanctions, by contrast,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287730
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The Impact of Sleep Restriction on Contributions and Punishment: First Evidence
Clark, Jeremy; Dickinson, David L. - 2017
We implement a one-week partial sleep restriction protocol to investigate the effect of sleep deprivation on joint production in a standard voluntary contributions mechanism (VCM) experiment. Additionally, the effect of sleep restriction on an individual's likelihood of sending costly peer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744535
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The impact of sleep restriction on contributions and punishment : first evidence
Clark, Jeremy; Dickinson, David L. - 2017
We implement a one-week partial sleep restriction protocol to investigate the effect of sleep deprivation on joint production in a standard voluntary contributions mechanism (VCM) experiment. Additionally, the effect of sleep restriction on an individual's likelihood of sending costly peer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011670941
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Pledges of commitment and cooperation in partnerships
Deer, Lachlan; Bayer, Ralph-C. - In: Games 7 (2016) 1, pp. 1-16
We use experimental methods to investigate whether pledges of commitment can improve cooperation in endogenously … findings show that pledges of commitment alone can increase cooperation and welfare in committed partnerships. The introduction … partnerships fall solely on the individual choosing to break up, pledges of commitment fail to improve cooperation and welfare. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453248
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The dynamics of norm formation and norm decay
Fehr, Ernst; Schurtenberger, Ivo - 2018
goods provision - the quick emergence of a widely accepted social cooperation norm that demands high contributions but - in … consensus as well as the high cooperation demands required by the norm break down. However, when peer punishment is possible … cooperation and welfare - the opportunity to form a social norm unambiguously causes high public good contributions and group …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011854858
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Lab-sophistication : does repeated participation in laboratory experiments affect pro-social behaviour?
Medda, Tiziana; Pelligra, Vittorio; Reggiani, Tommaso - In: Games 12 (2021) 1/18, pp. 1-14
Experimental social scientists working at research-intensive institutions deal inevitably with subjects who have most likely participated in previous experiments. It is an important methodological question to know whether participants that have acquired a high level of lab-sophistication show...
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