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Gender differences in the response to decision power and responsibility : framing effects in a dictator game

Bruttel, Lisa Verena; Stolley, Florian - In: Games 9 (2018) 2/28, pp. 1-16

This paper studies the effects of two different frames on decisions in a dictator game. Before making their allocation decision, dictators read a short text. Depending on the treatment, the text either emphasizes their decision power and freedom of choice or it stresses their responsibility for...

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Anticipated communication in the ultimatum game

Capizzani, Mario; Mittone, Luigi; Musau, Andrew; … - In: Games 8 (2017) 3, pp. 1-20

will reject a low offer, it remains an open question whether anticipated verbal communication can be effective in … the form of anticipated verbal communication (no communication, one-sided communication from proposers and two …-sided communication) and find that offers are significantly higher in the presence of anticipated two-sided communication. However …

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Partner selection and the division of surplus : evidence from ultimatum and dictator experiments

Banerjee, Priyodorshi; Chakravarty, Sujoy; Ghosh, Sanmitra - In: Games 7 (2016) 1, pp. 1-18

We study ultimatum and dictator environments with one-way, unenforceable pre-play communication from the proposer to …

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Inequalities between others do matter : evidence from multiplayer dictator games

Macro, David; Weesie, Jeroen - In: Games 7 (2016) 2, pp. 1-23

, in addition to outcomes that have two-player analogues, such as social efficiency and the inequality between self and … others. We expect that existing models of social motives can be improved if players are allowed to consider the inequality … between others. Results from two laboratory experiments confirm this: motives for the inequality between others were found …

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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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From windfall sharing to property ownership : prosocial personality traits in giving and taking dictator games

Zhao, Kun; Kashima, Yoshihisa; Smillie, Luke D. - In: Games 9 (2018) 2/30, pp. 1-18

The dictator game is a well-known task measuring prosocial preferences, in which one person divides a fixed amount of windfall money with a recipient. A key factor in real-world transfers of wealth is the concept of property ownership and consequently the related acts of giving and taking. Using...

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Trusting the trust game : an external validity analysis with a UK representative sample

Banerjee, Sanchayan; Galizzi, Matteo M.; Vallve, Rafael … - In: Games 12 (2021) 3, pp. 1-16

Using a nationally representative sample of 1052 respondents from the United Kingdom, we systematically tested the associations between the experimental trust game and a range of popular self-reported measures for trust, such as the General Social Survey (GSS) and the Rosenberg scale for...

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Dual-process reasoning in charitable giving : learning from non-results

Grossman, Zachary; Weele, Joël J. van der - In: Games 8 (2017) 3, pp. 1-13

To identify dual-process reasoning in giving, we exposed experimental participants making a charitable donation to vivid images of the charity’s beneficiaries in order to stimulate affect. We hypothesized that the effect of an affective manipulation on giving would be larger when we...

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Endogenous game choice and giving behavior in distribution games

Karagözoğlu, Emin; Tosun, Elif - In: Games 13 (2022) 6, pp. 1-32

about our experimental results. Survey participants predicted most of the observed behavior in the experiment and explained …

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Evolution of mindsight and psychological commitment among strategically interacting agents

Rtischev, Dimitry - In: Games 7 (2016) 3, pp. 1-16

We study the evolution of strategic psychological capabilities in a population of interacting agents. Specifically,we consider agentswhich are either blind orwithmindsight, and either transparent or opaque. An agent with mindsight can observe the psychological makeup of a transparent agent,...

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