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The impact of naïve advice and observational learning in beauty-contest games

Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias; Wakolbinger, Florian - 2007 - This version: January 24, 2007

We study the impact of advice or observation on the depth of reasoning in an experimental beauty-contest game. Both sources of information trigger faster convergence to the equilibrium. Yet, we find that subjects who receive naïve advice outperform uninformed subjects permanently, whereas...

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How universal is behavior?

Brandts, Jordi; Saijō, Tatsuyoshi; Schram, Arthur - 2002

This paper studies behavior in experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution function' design allows us to obtain a view of...

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Measuring responsiveness to feedback as a personal trait

Buser, Thomas; Gerhards, Leonie; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2016

the variation in confidence and competition entry decisions. Conservatism is correlated across tasks and predicts …. Asymmetry is less stable across tasks, but predicts competition entry by increasing self-confidence. …

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Bertrand price competition in a social environment

Tieman, Alexander F.; Laan, Gerard van der; Houba, Harold - 1998

We analyze the behavior of producers who compete through price competition in a social environment from a sociological point of view. The standard model of Bertrand price competition is enriched with producers who follow a "Win Cooperate, Lose Defect" (WCLD) strategy. This strategy is a...

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The economics of altruistic punishment and the demise of cooperation

Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2005

Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems … mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this paper we explore the boundary conditions for altruistic punishment to … maintain cooperation by systematically varying the cost and impact of punishment, using a subject pool which extends beyond the …

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Hormones and social preferences

Buser, Thomas - 2011

We examine whether social preferences are determined by hormones. We do this by investigating whether markers for the strength of prenatal testosterone exposure (finger length ratios) and current exposure to progesterone and oxytocin (the menstrual cycle) are correlated with choices in social...

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Other-regarding preferences, group identity and political participation : an experiment

Robalo, Pedro; Schram, Arthur; Sonnemans, Joep - 2013

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Money talks? : an experimental investigation of cheap talk and burned money

Haan, Thomas de; Offerman, Theo; Sloof, Randolph - 2011

used for communication purposes. Theoretically a large number of equilibria exist side by side, in which senders either use …

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Persuasion, justification and the communication of social impact

Förster, Manuel; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2018

We experimentally investigate strategic communication about the impact of prosocial actions, which is central to policy … communication in moral domains, and help understand the fraught nature of political discussions about social impact. …

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Committees of experts in the lab

Renes, Sander; Visser, Bauke - 2018

cheap-talk communication with evaluators. We use the chat among committee members to learn about, e.g., their beliefs about …

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