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cooperators relieve negative emotions when they punish free riders. In response, the free-riders experience negative emotions when …
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investigate the relationships between emotions, deception, and rational decision-making by means of an experiment on tax evasion … anticipatory emotions before reporting positively correlates with both the decision to cheat and the proportion of evaded income …. Emotions are measured by skin conductance responses and self-reports. We show that the intensity of anticipated and …
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puzzle. In this paper, we investigate the role of emotions as a possible explanation of tax compliance. Our laboratory … experiment shows that emotional arousal, measured by Skin Conductance Responses, increases in the proportion of evaded taxes. The … perspective of punishment after an audit, especially when the pictures of the evaders are publicly displayed, also raises emotions …
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Based on Hume's major philosophical works and on some of his Essays, this paper discusses formally the feasibility, from a Humean point of view, of a welfare policy which would aim at promoting the highest individual happiness whereas individual decisions, like individual happiness, are...
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prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …
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prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …
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In this paper, we consider that our experience of time (to come) depends on the emotions we feel when we imagine future … pleasant or unpleasant events. A positive emotion such as relief or joy associated with a pleasant event that will happen in … expands. A negative emotion such as grief or frustration associatedwith an unpleasant event thatwill happen in the future …
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This paper demonstrates, through a controlled experiment, that the “Laffer curve” phenomenon does not always reflect a … conventional income - leisure trade-off. Whether out of reason or out of emotion, taxpayers may also be willing to punish … experiment in which a player A (the "tax receiver") is matched with a player B (the "worker") to elicit the conditions under …
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This paper compares the effects of anti-tobacco ad parodies and visual cigarette package warnings on emotional and cognitive responses of young adults. The findings indicate that graphic-only ad parodies can compete with warnings in their attempt to damage consumers' attitude toward tobacco...
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Neuroeconomics is a recent extension of behavioral economics which aims at uncovering the brain mechanisms and activities that mediate regular and anomalous behaviour. Gul and Pesendorfer (2005) have launched a critique against the neuroeconomic research program, based on what they argue is the...
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