We use the trust and the dictator games to explore the effects of religious identity on trust, trustworthiness …, prosociality, and conditional reciprocity within a beliefs-based model. We provide a novel and rigorous theoretical model to derive … beliefs-based mechanism for the effects of religious identity. More religious subjects expect greater prosociality/reciprocity …

This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind …

systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests that many people are strongly motivated by concerns for fairness and … reciprocity. Moreover, several theoretical papers have been written showing that the observed phenomena can be explained in a … insights into the nature of preferences and into the relative performance of competing theories of fairness. The purpose of …

In this paper we show that a simple model of fairness preferences explains major experimental regularities of common …

favoritism, merit-based fairness ideals, and self-favoring behavior in dictator games. We then show that these patterns also …

(which activate the norm of reciprocity) interact over the course of an employee’s career. I show that firms can benefit from … its promises. Moreover, I demonstrate that more intense competition for workers can intensify the use of reciprocity …