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The strategy method risks conflating confusion with a social preference for conditional cooperation in public goods games

Burton-Chellew, Maxwell N.; D'Amico, Victoire; Guérin, … - In: Games 13 (2022) 6, pp. 1-10

The strategy method is often used in public goods games to measure an individual's willingness to cooperate depending on the level of cooperation by their groupmates (conditional cooperation). However, while the strategy method is informative, it risks conflating confusion with a desire for fair...

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Explaining cooperative behavior in public goods games : how preferences and beliefs affect contribution levels

Ackermann, Kurt A.; Murphy, Ryan O. - In: Games 10 (2019) 1/15, pp. 1-34

individual level using multiple methods, and at multiple times during the experiment. With this rich set of predictor variables …

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Introduction to the special issue "pro-sociality and cooperation"

Ghidoni, Riccardo - In: Games 12 (2021) 3, pp. 1-2

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A choice prediction competition for a social preferences in simple extensive form games : an introduction

Ert, Eyal; Erev, Ido; Roth, Alvin E. - In: Games 2 (2011) 3, pp. 257-276

and the other on predicting the choices of the second mover. The competitions are based on an estimation experiment and a … competition experiment. The two experiments use the same methods and subject pool, and examine games randomly selected from the … same distribution. The current introductory paper presents the results of the estimation experiment, and clarifies the …

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Giving to versus taking from in- and out-group members

Alt, Marius; Gallier, Carlo; Schlüter, Achim; Nelson, … - In: Games 9 (2018) 3/57, pp. 1-14

In this experiment, we test whether subjects’ responses to variations in the action set in a dictator game depends on …

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Patience or fairness? : analyzing social preferences in repeated games

Duffy, John; Muñoz-García, Félix - In: Games 3 (2012) 1, pp. 56-77

This paper investigates how the introduction of social preferences affects players’ equilibrium behavior in both the one-shot and the infinitely repeated version of the Prisoner’s Dilemma game. We show that fairness concerns operate as a ”substitute” for time discounting in the...

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Homophily and social norms in experimental network formation games

Arifovic, Jasmina; Danese, Giuseppe - In: Games 9 (2018) 4/83, pp. 1-22

both homophily and social norms in a controlled environment. At the beginning of our experiment, each player fills in a …

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Hybrid assessment scheme based on the stern-judging rule for maintaining cooperation under indirect reciprocity

Okada, Isamu; Yamamoto, Hitoshi; Uchida, Satoshi - In: Games 11 (2020) 1/13, pp. 1-10

Intensive studies on indirect reciprocity have explored rational assessment rules for maintaining cooperation and several have demonstrated the effects of the stern-judging rule. Uchida and Sasaki demonstrated that the stern-judging rule is not suitable for maintaining cooperative regimes in...

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Intentions-based reciprocity to monetary and non-monetary gifts

Chao, Matthew - In: Games 9 (2018) 4/74, pp. 1-18

Social preference models emphasize that perceived intentions motivate reciprocity. However, laboratory tests of this theory typically manipulate perceived intentions through changes in wealth resulting from a sacrifice in pay by another. There is little evidence on whether reciprocity occurs in...

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Give and let give : alternative mechanisms based on voluntary contributions

Grech, Philip D. - In: Games 10 (2019) 2/21, pp. 1-11

We propose a new family of mechanisms, whereby players may give more or less directly to one another. A cornerstone case is the regular linear public goods mechanism (LPGM), where all contribute into a single common group account, the total amount of which is then distributed equally among...

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