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Adherence to norms and interventions to norm violations are two important forms of social behaviour modelled in economic games. While both appear to serve a prosocial function, they may represent separate mechanisms corresponding with distinct emotional ...
Kun Zhao +2 more
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Who tugs at our heart strings? The effect of avatar images on player generosity in the dictator game. [PDF]
Buchanan K +4 more
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They Come to Play: Supply Effects in an Economic Experiment [PDF]
Our experiment challenges the standard, social preference, interpretation of choices in the double blind dictator game. In our bilateral treatment both groups are endowed with $20, any fraction of which can be passed to a randomly determined player in ...
Allison Liati +2 more
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Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs About Others [PDF]
In this paper we present the results from a “corruption game” (a dictator game modified so that the second player can accept a side payment that reduces the overall size of the pie). Dictators (silently) treated to have the possibility of taking a larger
Ricardo Pérez-Truglia, Rafael Di Tella
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The present study employed dictator game and ultimatum game to investigate the effect of facial attractiveness, vocal attractiveness and social interest in expressing positive (“I like you”) versus negative signals (“I don’t like you”) on decision making.
Junchen Shang, Yizhuo Zhang
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Do experimental subjects favor their friends? [PDF]
Ideally we would like subjects of experiments to be perfect strangers so that the situation they face at the lab is not just a part of a long run interaction.
Miguel Angel Durán +2 more
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Social preferences, accountability, and wage bargaining [PDF]
We assess the extent of preferences for employment in a collective wage bargaining situation with heterogeneous workers. We vary the size of the union and introduce a treatment mechanism transforming the voting game into an individual allocation task ...
Kocher, Martin G. +2 more
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Are Nurses More Altruistic than Real Estate Brokers? [PDF]
We report results from a dictator game experiment with nurse students and real estate broker students as dictators, and Amnesty International as the recipient.
Helland, Leif +4 more
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Rarer Actions: Giving and Taking in Third-Party Punishment Games [PDF]
In attempting to understand cooperation, economists have used the methods of experimental economics to focus on spheres of human behavior in which humans display altruism, reciprocity, or other social preferences through giving and through punishment ...
Simon Halliday
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Gender based prescriptions: evidence for altruism [PDF]
This paper analyzes the way in which men and women are expected to behave differently in an experimental situation. To do so, we concentrate on a single topic: altruism.
Luis M. Miller +4 more
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