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In prosocial decisions, decision-makers are inherently uncertain about how their decisions impact others’ utility – we call this interpersonal uncertainty. We show that people’s response to interpersonal uncertainty shapes well-known patterns of prosocial behavior. First, using standard...
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We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods …
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. Strong reciprocity means that people willingly repay gifts and punish the violation of cooperation and fairness norms even in …
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This paper reports results from a classroom dictator game comparing the effects of three different sets of standard instructions. The results show that seemingly small differences in instructions induce fundamentally different perceptions regarding entitlement. Behavior is affected accordingly,...
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-extraction and cooperation shocks trigger short-run adjustments in the agents' behaviour. However, shocks do not have permanent … effects. This explains the long-run resilience of cooperation to rent extraction. We also show that cooperative attitudes and …
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in honesty and cooperation and tested the individual-level links between these two moral domains. Participants completed … both honesty and cooperation tasks after observing their peers. Consistent with the literature, separate analysis of the … two domains indicated both negative and positive peer influences in honesty and in cooperation, with negative influences …
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This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by the intention underlying this action. The theory...
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This paper studies how a preference for consistency can affect economic decision-making. We propose a two-period model where people have a preference for consistency because consistent behavior allows them to signal personal and intellectual strength. We then present three experiments that study...
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We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an in-group or an out-group...
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Repeated interactions provide a prominent but paradoxical hypothesis for human cooperation in one-shot interactions … mechanism reliably supports the evolution of cooperation when actions vary continuously. Ambiguous reciprocity, a strategy … generally ruled out in models of reciprocal altruism, completely undermines cooperation under repeated interactions, which …
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