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The relative importance of language in guiding social preferences through development [PDF]
In this paper, we review evidence from infants, toddlers and preschoolers to tackle the ques-tion of how individuals orient preferences and actions towards social partners and how these preferences change over development.
Rana Esseily +2 more
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Unbiased lotteries seem the least unfair and simplest procedures to allocate scarce indivisible resources to those with equal claims. But, when lotteries are repeated, it is not immediately obvious whether prior winners should be included or excluded. As
Marco D. Huesch, Richard Brady
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The Effect of Age and Gender on Social Preferences in Iran [PDF]
A substantial body of research highlights the presence of social preferences, their economic and political implications, and the varied conditions that influence their effects on the equilibrium and outcomes of human interactions.
Habib Morovat
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What's Behind Image? Toward a Better Understanding of Image-Driven Behavior
Our experimental design systematically varies image concerns in a dictator/trust game. In comparison to the baseline, we either decrease the role of self-image concerns (by providing an excuse for selfish behavior) or increase the role of social-image ...
Tobias Regner
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Why does human cooperation often unravel in economic experiments despite a promising start? Previous studies have interpreted the decline as the reaction of disappointed altruists retaliating in response to non-altruists (Conditional Cooperators ...
Maxwell N. Burton-Chellew +1 more
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Imagine being a nice guy: A note on hypothetical vs. incentivized social preferences [PDF]
We conducted an experimental study on social preferences using dictator games similar to Fehr et al. (2008). Our results show that social preferences differ between subjects who receive low-stakes monetary rewards for their decisions and subjects who ...
Christoph Bühren, Thorben C. Kundt
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Heterogeneous social preferences [PDF]
Recent research has shown the usefulness of social preferences for explaining behavior in laboratory experiments. This paper demonstrates that models of social preferences are particularly powerful in explaining behavior if they are embedded in a setting of heterogeneous actors with heterogeneous (social) preferences. For this purpose a simple model is
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In many competitive situations, our investments increase our gains: Developing better products or research proposals may lead to higher contracts or patents or larger grants. Does increasing investment in such cases always guarantee higher gains? We used
Einav Hart +2 more
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Health technology assessment (HTA) and economic evaluation: efficiency or fairness first
The economic evaluation which supports Health Technology Assessment (HTA) should inform policy makers of the value to society conferred by a given allocation of resources.
Jeff Richardson, Michael Schlander
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Using crowdsourced imagery to detect cultural ecosystem services: a case study in South Wales, UK
Within ecological research and environmental management, there is currently a focus on demonstrating the links between human well-being and wildlife conservation. Within this framework, there is a clear interest in better understanding how and why people
Gianfranco Gliozzo +2 more
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