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Unexpected waiting corrupts
Dezső, Linda; Hajdu, Gergely; Tobol, Yossef - 2024
managing expectations about waiting duration could play an important role in mitigating subsequent immoral behavior. …The experience of waiting is ubiquitous in all areas of life, and sometimes a waiting experi ence is followed by …)expected waiting duration on moral behavior. Passengers who had just joined the check-in line at the Ben Gurion Airport guessed how …
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Unexpected waiting corrupts
Dezső, Linda; Hajdu, Gergely; Tobol, Yossef - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496160
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Self-serving redistributive preferences among natives and immigrants in the UK
Dezsîo, Linda; Koch, Christian - 2024
In an online experiment, we examine how ingroup bias and fairness concerns shape the redistributive preferences of UK resident natives and immigrants. Natives and immigrants were paired in a series of distributive situations. They chose how to divide a pie created from either party's previous...
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The short-term effect of COVID-19 on schoolchildren's generosity
Kiss, Hubert János; Keller, Tamás - 2020
We conduct two waves (W1 and W2) of an unincentivized online survey to measure the change in altruism of primary school students (N=983) toward classmates and schoolmates during the school closures due to COVID-19. The W1 responses arrived, on average, after 39 days of online education, while W2...
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An Experimental Analysis of In-Group Favoritism and Out-Group Discrimination in the Gain and Loss Domain
Antinyan, Armenak; Aydinyan, Tigran; Ressi, Anna; … - 2023
While the existence of the in-group bias is a well-researched phenomenon in Economics, the established findings are of limited value for understanding its dynamics in the context of challenging societal and economic times. The aim of this paper is to shed more light on whether intergroup...
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Immorality judgments and framing effects in voluntary payment settings
Hofmann, Elisa; Bolesta, Deliah; Adra, Aya - 2023
The Theory of Dyadic Morality (TDM; Schein and Gray (2018)) posits that immorality judgments emerge from norm violations, harm perceptions, and negative affect. We test this core prediction in an applied setting: voluntary payment settings, such as the Pay-What-You-Want mechanism. In our study,...
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The behavioral economics of extreme event attribution
Diekert, Florian; Goeschl, Timo; König-Kersting, Christian - 2024
Can Attribution Science, a method for quantifying - ex post - humanity's contribution to adverse climatic events, induce pro-environmental behavioral change? We conduct a conceptual test of this question by studying, in an online experiment with 3,031 participants, whether backwards-looking...
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High incentives without high cost: The role of (perceived) stake sizes in dictator games
Hopp, Daniel - 2021
The external validity of dictator games conducted in a lab is often questioned due to the use of small stake sizes that do not correspond to real-world settings. A potential solution to this problem is based on how participant perceptions of stake sizes are affected by their numerical...
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Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution in Consumption : Empirical Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Kapoor, Mudit - 2010
This paper estimates the elasticity of intertemporal substitution in consumption (sigma). We exploit a natural experiment provided by a change in the Indian banking legislation which authorized all the deposit collecting institutions to offer a higher interest rate on deposits to citizens above...
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The short-term effect of COVID-19 on schoolchildren's generosity
Kiss, Hubert János; Keller, Tamás - 2020
We conduct two waves (W1 and W2) of an unincentivized online survey to measure the change in altruism of primary school students (N=983) toward classmates and schoolmates during the school closures due to COVID-19. The W1 responses arrived, on average, after 39 days of online education, while W2...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012439895