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Trust and Reciprocity in Incentive Contracting

Rigdon, Mary L. - 2007

of those gains. Incentive contracting in these environments does not crowd-out off-equilibrium cooperation, and at high … incentive levels cooperation is crowded in …

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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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When are Women More Generous than Men?

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

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 or not to be generous. The factors...

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Other-Regarding Preferences and Giving Decision in Risky Environments : Experimental Evidence

Beaud, Mickaël - 2018

This paper investigates if and how other-regarding preferences governing giving decisions in dictator games are affected in risky environments in which the payoff of the recipient is random. We demonstrate that, whenever the risk is actuarially neutral, the donation of dictators with a purely ex...

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Tradeoffs between self-interest and other-regarding preferences cause willpower depletion

Fromell, Hanna; Nosenzo, Daniele; Owens, Trudy - 2014

In this paper we show that making choices that involve conflicts between self-interest and otherregarding concerns may deplete cognitive resources and willpower and thus reduce individuals' ability to exert self-control. In a lab experiment we use a series of modified dictator games to...

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Gender differences in the development of other-regarding preferences

John, Katrin; Thomseny, Stephan L. - 2017

We use data from a gender-neutral dictator and public goods game setting to analyze differences in other-regarding preferences between boys and girls aged 10 to 17. The results indicate a higher mean of dictator giving, degree of egalitarian decisions and lower frequency of selfish decisions,...

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Gender differences in the development of other-regarding preferences

John, Katrin; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2017

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The role of interpersonal uncertainty in prosocial behavior

Chakraborty, Anujit; Henkel, Luca - 2024

In prosocial decisions, decision-makers are inherently uncertain about how their decisions impact others' utility - we call this interpersonal uncertainty. We show that people's response to interpersonal uncertainty shapes well-known patterns of prosocial behavior. First, using standard social...

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The role of interpersonal uncertainty in prosocial behavior

Chakraborty, Anujit; Henkel, Luca - 2024

In prosocial decisions, decision-makers are inherently uncertain about how their decisions impact others’ utility – we call this interpersonal uncertainty. We show that people’s response to interpersonal uncertainty shapes well-known patterns of prosocial behavior. First, using standard...

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Computer-Mediated Communication and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas : An Experimental Analysis

Bicchieri, Cristina; Lev-On, Azi - 2014

-to-face (FtF) communication on cooperation. The FtF "communication effect" has been recently explained in terms of a "focus theory … conducive to cooperation. Many of the studies that point to a communication effect, however, do not further explore whether and …-mediated communication (CMC) positively affects cooperation in social dilemmas, but cooperation is more difficult to establish and maintain …

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