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"I" on You: Identity in the Dictator Game

Kopányi-Peuker, Anita; Zheng, Jin Di - 2019

We study a giver’s generosity depending on her relationship with the recipient and the observer. We assign different group identities to the players using a variation of the minimumgroup paradigm, and test the effect of group memberships on altruistic giving in the dictator game with a passive...

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Mind, Body, Bubble! Psychological and Biophysical Dimensions of Behavior in Experimental Asset Markets

Butler, David; Cheung, Stephen L. - 2018

evidence from dozens of laboratory experiments that investigate the measurement and manipulation of an array of psychological …

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Integrating machine behavior into human subject experiments: A user-friendly toolkit and illustrations

Engel, Christoph; Grossmann, Max R. P.; Ockenfels, Axel - 2024

propose a new software framework, "alter_ego", which makes it easy to design experiments between LLMs and to integrate LLMs … into oTreebased experiments with human subjects. Our toolkit is freely available at github.com/mrpg/ego. To illustrate, we … effects in machine-only treatments are strong and similar to those expected from previous human-only experiments, yet less …

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(Dis)honest Politicians and the Value of Transparency for Campaign Promises

Lang, Matthias; Schudy, Simeon Andreas Dermot - 2020

Promises are prevalent in many competitive environments, but promise keeping is often difficult to observe. Do promises still offer an opportunity to honor future obligations, if promise keeping is unobservable? Focusing on campaign promises, we study the value of transparency. We show how...

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How Altruistic Is Indirect Reciprocity? - Evidence from Gift-Exchange Games in the Lab

Becker, Johannes; Hopp, Daniel; Süß, Karolin - 2020

framework to analyze both motives for indirect reciprocity and run a series of lab experiments. The treatments manipulate the …

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How altruistic is indirect reciprocity? - Evidence from gift-exchange games in the lab

Becker, Johannes; Hopp, Daniel; Süß, Karolin - 2020

framework to analyze both motives for indirect reciprocity and run a series of lab experiments. The treatments manipulate the …

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Does relative performance information lower group morale?

Heursen, Lea - 2019

In many organizations, productivity relies not just on individual effort but also on group morale, that is, the willingness of co-workers to help each other perform better at work. Relative performance evaluations (RPE) are known to increase individual work morale but may negatively affect group...

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Large Losses from Little Lies: Randomly Assigned Opportunity to Misrepresent Substantially Lowers Later Cooperation and Worsens Income Inequality

Drouvelis, Michalis; Gerson, Jennifer; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2020

Social media has made anonymized behavior online a prevalent part of many people's daily interactions. The implications of this new ability to hide one's identity information remain imperfectly understood. Might it be corrosive to human cooperation? This paper investigates the possibility that a...

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Mental Accounting, Loss Aversion, and Tax Evasion: Theory and Evidence

Dhami, Sanjit; Hajimoladarvish, Narges - 2020

model through MTurk experiments. Evasion is increasing in the tax rate and decreasing in the audit penalty. Moral costs …

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Large Losses from Little Lies: Randomly Assigned Opportunity to Misrepresent Substantially Lowers Later Cooperation and Worsens Income Inequality

Drouvelis, Michalis; Gerson, Jennifer; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2020

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