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Everybody's doing it : on the emergence and persistence of bad social norms

Smerdon, David; Offerman, Theo; Genîzî, Ûrî - 2016

Social norms permeate society across a wide range of issues and are important to understanding how societies function. In this paper we concentrate on 'bad' social norms - those that are inefficient or even damaging to a group. This paper explains how bad social norms evolve and persist; our...

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The behavioral impact of emotions in a power to take game : an experimental study

Bosman, Ronald; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 1999

-making experiment preceding the take game. The gameconsists of two stages. In the first stage, the take authority decides howmuch income …

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Negative reciprocity and the interaction of emotions and fairness norms

Reuben, Ernesto; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2005

This experimental study investigates how behavior changes after punishment for an unkind action. It also studies how fairness perceptions affect the reaction to punishment and whether this effect is consistent across repeated play and role experiences. A repeated version of the power-to-take...

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Negative reciprocity and the interaction of emotions and fairness norms

Reuben, Ernesto; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2005

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The importance of emotions for the effectiveness of social punishment

Hopfensitz, Astrid; Reuben, Ernesto - 2006

This paper experimentally explores how the enforcement of cooperative behavior in a social dilemma is facilitated through institutional as well as emotional mechanisms. Recent studies emphasize the importance of negatively valued emotions, such as anger, which motivate individuals to punish free...

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A social norm nudge to save more : a field experiment at a retail bank

Dur, Robert A. J.; Fleming, Dimitry; Garderen, Marten van; … - 2019

examine whether a social norm nudgecan stimulate such households to save more by running a small-scale survey ex-periment and … a large-scale field experiment at a retail bank in the Netherlands.The survey experiment shows that a social norm nudge … increases intended sav-ings. In line with this, we find in our field experiment that households whoare exposed to the social …

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