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Using a nationally representative sample of 1052 respondents from the United Kingdom, we systematically tested the associations between the experimental trust game and a range of popular self-reported measures for trust, such as the General Social Survey (GSS) and the Rosenberg scale for...
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In a recent simulation study, Goodman et al. (2019) compare several methods with regard to their type I and type II error rates when considering a thick null hypothesis that includes all values that are practically equivalent to the point null hypothesis. They propose a hybrid decision criterion...
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preferences admit a generalized prospect-theoretical utility representation reminiscent of fairnessbased altruism. As in prospect …
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about our experimental results. Survey participants predicted most of the observed behavior in the experiment and explained …
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The parable of the Good Samaritan is not only part of the spiritual, ethical, and artistic heritage of the West; this biblical passage has also been used in economics. Some leading economists, J. Buchanan and A. Sen, in particular, have devoted special attention to this old story. This paper, in...
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I experimentally investigate how vague language changes the nature of communication in a biased strategic information … model showing that vague messages increase communication between boundedly rational players, especially if some senders are …
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Trust is crucial to establishing reciprocal, positive social interactions and seems to be compromised in psychosis. The trust game offers methods to assess an individual's trust responses to trust-reciprocating, positive feedback. Various computational techniques have been implemented to measure...
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economic preferences (patience, altruism, willingness to take risks, negative and positive reciprocity, and trust) were related …
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This paper investigates how different message structures impact communication strategy as well as sender and receiver … behavior. Specifically, we focus on comparing communication games with messages stating an intention versus a request. Our …
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We use a modified die-rolling experiment to study whether negative externality affects a group's decisions about …
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