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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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Social Preferences and Context Sensitivity
This paper is a partial review of the literature on ‘social preferences'. There are empirical findings that convincingly demonstrate the existence of social preferences, but there are also studies that indicate their fragility.
Jelle de Boer
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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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Social preferences of future physicians [PDF]
Shachar Kariv +2 more
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The development of social preferences [PDF]
This paper examines how social preferences develop with age. This is done using a range of mini-dictator games from which we classify 665 subjects into a variety of behavioural types. We expand on previous developmental studies of pro-sociality and parochialism by analysing individuals aged 9–67, and by employing a cross country study where ...
Cobo Reyes Cano, Ramón +8 more
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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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The evolution of altruistic social preferences in human groups [PDF]
Joan Silk, Bailey House
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Social Identity and Preferences [PDF]
Social identities prescribe behaviors for people. We identify the marginal behavioral effect of these norms on discount rates and risk aversion by measuring how laboratory subjects' choices change when an aspect of social identity is made salient. When we make ethnic identity salient to Asian-American subjects, they make more patient choices.
Daniel J. Benjamin +2 more
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