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Conforming with peers in honesty and cooperation
Isler, Ozan; Gächter, Simon - 2021
tendency to be influenced by and conform with peers domain-general? In an online experiment (N = 815), we studied peer effects … in honesty and cooperation and tested the individual-level links between these two moral domains. Participants completed … both honesty and cooperation tasks after observing their peers. Consistent with the literature, separate analysis of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801396
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Conforming with peers in honesty and cooperation
Isler, Ozan; Gächter, Simon - 2021
tendency to be influenced by and conform with peers domain-general? In an online experiment (N = 815), we studied peer effects … in honesty and cooperation and tested the individual-level links between these two moral domains. Participants completed … both honesty and cooperation tasks after observing their peers. Consistent with the literature, separate analysis of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745265
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Strategic behavior with tight, loose and polarized norms
Dimant, Eugen; Gelfand, Michele J.; Hochleitner, Anna; … - 2023
Descriptive norms - the behavior of other individuals in one's reference group - play a key role in shaping individual decisions. When characterizing the behavior of others, a standard approach in the literature is to focus on average behavior. In this paper, we argue both theoretically and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013494367
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Strategic behavior with tight, loose and polarized norms
Dimant, Eugen; Gelfand, Michele J.; Hochleitner, Anna; … - 2022
Descriptive norms - the behavior of other individuals in one's reference group - play a key role in shaping individual decisions. When characterizing the behavior of others, a standard approach in the literature is to focus on average behavior. In this paper, we argue both theoretically and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013399566
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The limits of self-governance when cooperators get punished : experimental evidence from urban and rural Russia
Gächter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt - 2010
and rural participants of young and mature age cohorts. Russia is interesting for studying voluntary cooperation because … cooperation-enhancing effect of punishment. An important reason is that there is punishment of contributors in all four subject … cooperation that are sustained by sanctioning free riders only. -- social norms ; free riding ; misdirected punishment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003990183
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The limits of self-governance when cooperators get punished : experimental evidence from urban and rural Russia
Gächter, Simon (contributor);  … - 2007
urban and rural participants of young and mature age cohorts. Russia is interesting for studying voluntary cooperation … cooperation-enhancing effect of punishment. An important reason is that there is substantial punishment of high contributors in … voluntary cooperation that are sustained by sanctioning free riders only. -- social norms ; free riding ; misdirected punishment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003579958
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Nudging cooperation
Barron, Kai; Nurminen, Tuomas - 2018
post announcement mechanism does not have a significant effect on the cooperation rate. However, the nudge leads to a … striking increase in the cooperation rate. We provide suggestive evidence that the nudge we use provides subjects with a focal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011982104
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Cooperating, fast and slow : testing the social heuristics hypothesis
Strømland, Eirik; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - 2016
, we conduct a novel time-pressure experiment to shed light on the cognitive underpinnings of cooperation. Although we find … Heuristics Hypothesis (SHH) proposes that fast instinctive decision making promotes cooperation in social dilemmas. In this paper … finding that fast and intuitive decision making promotes cooperation. Given payoff comprehension, the SHH predicts behavior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458007
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493200
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More than outcomes : the role of self-image in other-regarding behavior
Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2014
We conduct a modified dictator game in order to analyze the role self-image concerns play in other-regarding behavior. While we generally follow Konow (2000), a cognitive dissonance-based model of other-regarding behavior in dictator games, we relax one of its assumptions as we allow for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010475637