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Altruism and envy in contests : an evolutionarily stable symbiosis

Konrad, Kai A. - 2002

Altruists and envious people who meet in contests are symbionts. They do better than a population of narrowly rational individuals. If there are only altruists and envious individuals, a particular mixture of altruists and envious individuals is evolutionarily stable.

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Bayesian repeated games and reputations

Forges, Françoise; Salomon, Antoine - 2014

equilibria share some features with the ones of multi-sided reputation models. …

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Ultimatum game behavior in a social-preferences vacuum chamber

Benndorf, Volker; Grosse Brinkhaus, Thomas; Siemens, … - 2021

We study strategic interaction in an experimental social-preferences vacuum chamber. We mute social preferences by letting participants knowingly interact with computers. Our new design allows for indirect strategic interaction: there are several waves in which computer players inherit the...

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Reciprocity and emotions : arousal, self-reports, and expectations

Ben Shaḥar, Gershon; Bornstein, Gary; Hopfensitz, Astrid - 2004

Although reciprocity is a key concept in the social sciences, it is still unclear why people engage in costly reciprocation. In this study, physiological and self-report measures were employed to investigate the role of emotions, using the Power-to-Take Game. In this 2-person game, player 1 can...

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On the sensitivity of collective action to uncertainty about climate tipping points

Barrett, Scott; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2014

Previous research shows that collective action to avoid a catastrophic threshold, such as a climate "tipping point", is unaffected by uncertainty about the impact of crossing the threshold but that collective action collapses if the location of the threshold is uncertain. Theory suggests that...

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Negotiating to avoid "gradual" versus "dangerous" climate change : an experimental test of two prisoners' dilemmas

Barrett, Scott; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2014

According to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, global collective action is needed to stabilize "greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous [our emphasis] anthropogenic interference with the climate system." The Framework Convention thus...

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Gender differences in experimental wage negotiations

Dittrich, Marcus; Knabe, Andreas; Leipold, Kristina - 2012

-to-face alternating-offers wage bargaining. Our results suggest that male players are able to obtain better bargaining outcomes than … than female employers pay to male employees. Moreover, we find gender differences in the first offers of the bargaining … game. -- gender differences ; wage bargaining ; labor market experiment …

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On pendular voting

Gersbach, Hans - 2025

"Pendular Voting" presents a novel two-stage voting procedure: A randomly chosen citizen group votes on a proposal replacing the status quo. Depending on the outcome, a "counterproposal" ensues, that is closer to/further away from the status quo than the original proposal. All citizens vote...

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Trade interdependence, arming and the choice between war and peace

Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Syropoulos, Constantinos - 2025 - Current Version: March 29, 2025

We consider a dynamic setting where two countries with competing claims to a resource/asset first arm and then choose whether to resolve their dispute through war or peacefully through settlement. War precludes international trade and can be destructive, but also locks gains and eliminates...

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Understanding trust in AI as an information source : cross-country evidence

Hazra, Sanchaita; Serra-Garcia, Marta - 2025 - This version: June 2025

LLMs are emerging as information sources that influence organizational knowledge, though trust in them varies. This paper combines data from a large-scale experiment and the World Values Survey (WVS) to examine the determinants of trust in LLMs. The experiment measures trust in LLM-generated...

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