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Moral distance in dictator games [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2008 AbstractWe perform an experimental investigation using a dictator game in which individuals must make a moral decision — to give or not to give an amount of money to poor people in the Third World. A questionnaire in which the subjects are asked about the reasons for their decision shows that, at least in this case, moral motivations carry a heavy ...
Fernando Aguiar +2 more
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Behavioral and Brain Functions, 2006 Background In the growing body of literature on economic decision making, the main focus has typically been on explaining aggregate behavior, with little interest in individual differences despite considerable between-subject variability in decision ...
Sanfey Alan G, Scheres Anouk
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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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Benevolent Dictators? On LLM Agent Behavior in Dictator Games
CoRRIn behavioral sciences, experiments such as the ultimatum game are conducted to assess preferences for fairness or self-interest of study participants. In the dictator game, a simplified version of the ultimatum game where only one of two players makes a single decision, the dictator unilaterally decides how to split a fixed sum of money between ...
Andreas Einwiller +5 more
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No association between oxytocin receptor (OXTR) gene polymorphisms and experimentally elicited social preferences. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 BackgroundOxytocin (OXT) has been implicated in a suite of complex social behaviors including observed choices in economic laboratory experiments. However, actual studies of associations between oxytocin receptor (OXTR) gene variants and experimentally ...
Coren L Apicella +7 more
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Easy come, easy go - The role of windfall money in lab and field experiments [PDF]
, 2009 A growing number of experimental studies focus on the differences between the lab and the field. Important in this issue is the role of windfall money.
He, Haoran +2 more
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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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Feelings of ownership in dictator games [PDF]
Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017 •We compare Dictator Earns-Give to Recipient Earns-Take games.•Dictators’ generosity decreases when they earn the endowment and give.•Feelings of ownership mediate the effect.•Earning the endowment and the giving frame strengthen feelings of ownership.•Stronger feelings of ownership reduce dictators’ generosity.
Oleg Korenok +2 more
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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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Dictator Game Decisions with Robot Recipients
International Journal of Social RoboticsAbstract While extensive research has examined human-human interactions in dictator games, studies exploring human-robot dictator games remain scarce. Here, we conducted multiple studies in India and The Netherlands to explore how participants allocate money to robot recipients.
Avantika Dev +2 more
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