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This study analyzes the stability of preferences through the lens of psychological motives. We report the results of a public goods experiment in which subjects were induced with the motives of Care and Anger through autobiographical recall. Subjects' preferences, beliefs, and perceptions under...
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find evidence for the predicted distaste for penalty contracts. In four experiments penalty framing actually increased the … job offer acceptance rate relative to bonus framing. I rule out a number of explanations, most notably self …
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repression. It studies the justifications of mass killings by integrating framing theory with recent research on the domestic and … protest crackdowns, respectively, taking into account the audiences of the framing and the sources of the frames that justify …
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In Binary Threshold Public Good (BTPG) games n players contribute or not to the production of a public good which is produced if and only if there are at least k contributors. The BTPG games with the highest (k=n) and the lowest (k=1) threshold are the Stag Hunt game and the Volunteer's Dilemma....
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A nudge is a paternalistic government intervention that attempts to improve choices by changing the framing of a …
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(restricted or enhanced information) and the framing (gain or loss framing) of the invitation letter to the breast cancer …
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increase cooperation without using pecuniary incentives: moral framing and shaming. Cooperation increases when non …
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We present online-experimental evidence that challenges the generalizability of established results on subsidizing giving by considering a "quantity donation" scheme. We define this scheme as one in which donors choose how many units of a charitable good to fund, rather than the amount of money...
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We investigate framing effects in a large-scale public good experiment. We measure indicators of explanations … framing effects. The model captures potential causal effects and the behavioral heterogeneity of cooperation variability. We … find that framing only has a small effect on the average level of cooperation but a substantial effect on behavioral …
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In this paper, we test whether increased salience of a tax charge increases dishonesty using a version of the die-under-cup paradigm. Participants earn money in proportion to the outcome reported and, thus, have an incentive to over-report. We find a significant increase in high outcomes in the...
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