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Norms and the Evolution of Leaders' Followership

Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - 2022

In this paper we model the interaction between leaders, their followers and crowd followers in a coordination game with local interaction. The steady states of a dynamic best-response process can feature a coexistence of Pareto dominant and risk dominant actions in the population. The existence...

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Trust, Ethnic Diversity, and Personal Contact : A Field Experiment

Finseraas, Henning - 2019

We study how close personal contact with minorities affects in-group and out-group trust in a field experiment in the armed forces. Soldiers are randomly assigned to rooms with or without ethnic minorities. At the end of the recruit period, we measure trust by using a trust game. Results...

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Peers Affect Personality Development

Shan, Xiaoque; Zölitz, Ulf - 2022

Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 university students who we randomly assign to study groups. Our results show that students become more similar to their peers along several dimensions. Students with more competitive...

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Selection into Leadership and Dishonest Behavior of Leaders : A Gender Experiment

Grosch, Kerstin - 2020

, subjects can apply for leadership, whereas in the control treatment, we assign leadership randomly. Results reveal that women … leaders, we find that sorting into leadership is not related to individual honesty preferences. In the control we find that … leadership, as they align dishonest behavior with their belief on group membersâ€™ honesty preferences …

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Homophily and Transmission of Behavioral Traits in Social Networks

Bhargava, Palaash; Chen, Daniel L.; Sutter, Matthias; … - 2023

Social networks are a key factor of success in life, but they are also strongly segmented on gender, ethnicity, and other demographic characteristics (Jackson, 2010). We present novel evidence on an understudied source of homophily: behavioral traits. Behavioral traits are important determinants...

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Voting as a Signaling Device

Aytimur, R. Emre - 2012

In this paper, citizens vote in order to influence the election outcome and in order to signal their unobserved characteristics to others. The model is one of rational voting and generates the following predictions: (i) The paradox of not voting does not arise, because the benefit of voting does...

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Revelli, Federico - 2019

-voter theory, we develop a model of costly instrumental voting in sequential elections with private information, where voters …

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Dissonance Minimization and Conversation in Social Networks

Anufriev, Mikhail; Borissov, Kirill; Pakhnin, Mikhail - 2021

We study a model of social learning in networks where the dynamics of beliefs are driven by conversations of dissonance-minimizing agents. Given their current beliefs, agents make statements, tune them to the statements of their associates, and then revise their beliefs. We characterize the...

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Crowding Out the Truth? A Simple Model of Misinformation, Polarization and Meaningful Social Interactions

Germano, Fabrizio; Gómez, Vicenç; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2022

This paper provides a simple theoretical framework to evaluate the effect of key parameters of ranking algorithms, namely popularity and personalization parameters, on measures of platform engagement, misinformation and polarization. The results show that an increase in the weight assigned to...

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Identifying Leadership Skills Required in the Digital Age

Klus, Milan Frederik - 2020

categorise leadership skills included in the existing literature and associate them with tasks, management level, and leadership … findings, we contribute new insights to the leadership literature and derive practical implications …

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