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Rezaei, Sarah; Rosenkranz, Stephanie; Weitzel, Utz; … - 2021

We develop a model of social preferences for network games and study its predictions in a local public goods game with multiple equilibria. The key feature is that players' social preferences are heterogeneous. This gives room for disagreement between players about the "right" payoff ordering....

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‘I’m Just a Soul Whose Intentions Are Good’ : The Role of Communication in Noisy Repeated Games

Arechar, Antonio - 2017

participants lied at least occasionally). As a result, communication has a positive effect on cooperation when the payoff matrix … makes the returns to cooperation high; when the payoff matrix gives a lower return to cooperation, communication reduces … overall cooperation. These results suggest that cheap talk communication can promote cooperation in repeated games, but only …

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Does Cheap Talk Promote Coordination Under Asymmetric Information? An Experimental Study on Global Games

Duan, Jieyi - 2020

This study experimentally investigates the role of two-sided cheap talk in decisions under asymmetric information. Unlike previous studies, our study also considers endogenous investment timing. In our experiments, subjects play two-player global games with asymmetric information. Before making...

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What is trustworthiness and what drives it?

Cox, James C.; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel - 2014

This paper reports the results of experiments designed to isolate the impact of various combinations of the following motives on trustworthiness: (i) unconditional other-regarding preferences - like altruism, inequality aversion, quasi-maximin, etc.; (ii) deal-responsiveness - reacting to...

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Guilt-averse or reciprocal? : looking at behavioural motivations in the trust game

Engler, Yola; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Page, Lionel - 2016

For the trust game, recent models of belief-dependent motivations make opposite predictions regarding the correlation between back-transfers and second- order beliefs of the trustor: While reciprocity models predict a negative correlation, guilt-aversion models predict a positive one. This paper...

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Building Trust One Gift at a Time

Servátka, Maroš - 2011

This paper reports an experiment evaluating the effect of gift giving on building trust in a relationship. We have nested our explorations in the standard version of the investment game. Our gift treatment includes a dictator stage in which the trustee decides whether to give a gift to the...

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Trust and Reciprocity with Transparency and Repeated Interactions

Kanagaretnam, Kiridaran (Giri) - 2010

This paper uses data from a controlled laboratory environment to study the impact of transparency (i.e., complete information versus incomplete information) and repeated interactions on the level of trust and trustworthiness in an investment game setting. The key findings of the study are that...

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When are Women More Generous than Men?

Deck, Cary A. - 2010

Previous research on gender differences in behavior has led to seemingly contradictory findings about generosity. From data generated by 290 subject pairs, we find that women are more sensitive than men to the costs of generous actions when deciding whether to be generous. The factors that...

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Beliefs and truth-telling : a laboratory experiment

Peeters, Ronald; Vorsatz, Marc; Walzl, Markus - 2012

We conduct a laboratory experiment with a constant-sum sender-receiver game to investigate the impact of individuals' first- and second-order beliefs on truth-telling. While senders are more likely to lie if they expect the receiver to trust their message (which is in line with expected payoff...

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Assigning Intentions When Actions are Unobservable : The Impact of Trembling in the Trust Game

Cox, James C.; Deck, Cary A. - 2006

This paper reports laboratory experiments investigating behavior when players may make inferences about the intentions behind others' prior actions based on higher- or lower-accuracy information about those actions. We investigate a trust game with first mover trembling, a game in which nature...

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