How much is our fairness worth? The effect of raising stakes on offers by Proposers and minimum acceptable offers in Dictator and Ultimatum Games. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to determine whether people respond differently to low and high stakes in Dictator and Ultimatum Games. We assumed that if we raised the stakes high enough, we would observe more self-orientated behavior because ...
Julie Novakova, Jaroslav Flegr
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Experiments on norm focusing and losses in dictator games
Frontiers in Sociology, 2022 We conducted experiments on norm focusing. The tests were carried out with two versions of dictator games: in one version of the game, the dictator had to allocate a gain of €10, while in the other version, a loss of €−10 needs to be allocated.
Ivo Windrich +8 more
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Do dictator games measure altruism? [PDF]
, 2013 This note paper considers briefly whether dictator games are a good tool to measure altruism. The answer is negative: behavior in dictator games is seriously confounded by what I shall label experimenter demand effects. Section 2 briefly defines dictator games and reviews some of its purported enduring appeal.
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Chill-inducing music enhances altruism in humans
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Music is a universal feature of human cultures, and it has both fascinated and troubled many researchers. In this paper we show through the Dictator Game that an individual’s listening to preferred chill-inducing music may promote altruistic behavior ...
Hajime eFukui, Kumiko eToyoshima
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The Effect of Preceding Self-Control on Prosocial Behaviors: The Moderating Role of Awe
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 The exertion of self-control is known to result in subsequent detrimental effects on prosocial behaviors. Moreover, certain studies have demonstrated that positive emotions could drive people to allocate more attentional resources for conducting ...
Jin Li +14 more
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Giving to versus Taking from In- and Out-Group Members
Games, 2018 In this experiment, we test whether subjects’ responses to variations in the action set in a dictator game depends on induced group identities. The action set includes choices in which the dictator can either give money to or take money from the ...
Marius Alt +4 more
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Fairness in Extended Dictator Game Experiments [PDF]
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2008 Abstract We test the robustness of behavior in dictator games by offering allocators the choice to play an unattractive lottery. With this lottery option, mean transfers from allocators to recipients substantially decline, partly because many allocators now keep the entire endowment for themselves (without playing the lottery).
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix +1 more
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About prisoners and dictators: the role of other-self focus, social value orientation, and sterotype primes in shaping cooperative behavior. [PDF]
Six experiments examined the effects of person factors (i.e., social value orientation and consistency) and situation factors (i.e., stereotype primes) on cooperative behavior in various experimental games.
Corneille, O +4 more
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Elicited beliefs and social information in modified dictator games: What do dictators believe other dictators do? [PDF]
, 2008 We use subjects actions in modified dictator games to perform a within-subject classification of individuals into four different types of interdependent preferences: Selfish, Social Welfare maximizers, Inequity Averse and Competitive. We elicit beliefs about other subjects actions in the same modified dictator games to test how much of
Nagore Iriberri, Pedro Rey-Biel
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Is it all about the self?The effect of self-control depletion on ultimatum game proposers
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013 In the ultimatum-game, as in many real-life social exchange situations, the selfish motive to maximize own gains conflicts with fairness preferences. In the present study we manipulated the availability of cognitive-control resources for ultimatum-game ...
Eliran eHalali +2 more
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