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Missing Binds: How Absent Ties Unleash Migrant Worker Activism Under an Authoritarian Regime

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant workers are considered less militant in collective action than locals, partly because they lack social ties in the receiving community. However, in China's Pearl River Delta, I find the opposite. Comparing five cases of labor protest from 2014 to 2016 drawing on ethnographic observations, interviews, and labor activists' records, I ...
Zheng Fu
wiley   +1 more source

Countdown: Timespaces of Deadlines and Displacement

Population, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 5, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how politically structured deadlines and their accompanying countdowns generate dynamics of displacement by shaping anticipations of violence and prompting accelerated migration. Drawing on ethnographic research on Burundi's 2015 third‐term crisis and The Gambia's 2017 electoral impasse, we show how constitutional ...
Tone Sommerfelt, Simon Turner
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Partner Selection and the Division of Surplus: Evidence from Ultimatum and Dictator Experiments

Games, 2016
We study ultimatum and dictator environments with one-way, unenforceable pre-play communication from the proposer to the recipient, semantically framed as a promise.
Priyodorshi Banerjee, Sujoy Chakravarty, Sanmitra Ghosh   +2 more
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Sharing for the common good: Children's levels of social inclusion within the group and their sharing decisions in a public goods game

British Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 65, Issue 3, July 2026.
Abstract Across two studies, this research explored the relationship between levels of social inclusion within a group and cooperative sharing decisions among children, using the public goods game (PGG). In Study 1 (10–12 years old, N = 165), participants' social inclusion was experimentally manipulated using a modified version of the Cyberball ...
Yael Malin, Hagit Sabato
wiley   +1 more source

Fairness in an Ultimatum Game

Theoretical Economics Letters, 2016
We present a controlled laboratory environment in which we use an ultimatum game to generate two endogenous fairness indices. We use these as alternatives to the more conventional exogenous measure, the offer index, in a model of offer-acceptance which includes measures of social value orientations and risk attitudes as variables for explaining the ...
Mohamed I. Gomaa, Stuart Mestelman, S. M. Khalid Nainar, Mohamed Shehata   +3 more
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‘I Don't Want to Kill Any More Mice’: Taboo and Silence in PhD Education

Higher Education Quarterly, Volume 80, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Improving the experience and well‐being of doctoral students requires a deep and nuanced understanding of their challenges. Traditionally, researchers have used reactive methods, such as surveys and interviews, to address these issues. However, some topics may be difficult to capture through these approaches, particularly those that are ...
Saule Bekova, Ivan Smirnov
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of male’s facial attractiveness, vocal attractiveness and social interest on female’s decisions of fairness

Scientific Reports
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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Responder Feelings in a Three-Player Three-Option Ultimatum Game: Affective Determinants of Rejection Behavior

Games, 2012
This paper addresses the role of affect and emotions in shaping the behavior of responders in the ultimatum game. A huge amount of research shows that players do not behave in an economically rational way in the ultimatum game, and emotional mechanisms ...
Hans-Rüdiger Pfister, Gisela Böhm
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On gamesmen and fair men: explaining fairness in non-cooperative bargaining games [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2018
Experiments on bargaining games have repeatedly shown that subjects fail to use backward induction, and that they only rarely make demands in accordance with the subgame perfect equilibrium.
Ramzi Suleiman
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Fairness and survival in ultimatum and dictatorship games [PDF]

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1996
Abstract Much of the debate surrounding ultimatum and dictatorship games centers around the question of fairness. Fairness, however, is not a concept that is devoid of context. What may be considered unfair when two people meet face to face or in a bilateral manner may be considered fair in a market context where economic survival is at stake.
Schotter, A., Weiss, A., Zapater, I.
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