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Teams do inflict costly third-party punishment as individuals do : experimental evidence

Kamei, Kenju - In: Games 12 (2021) 1/22, pp. 1-11

Initiated by the seminal work of Fehr and Fischbacher (Evolution and Human Behavior (2004)), a large body of research has shown that people often take punitive actions towards norm violators even when they are not directly involved in transactions. This paper shows in an experimental setting...

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The role of the decision-making regime on cooperation in a workgroup social dilemma : an examination of cyberloafing

Corgnet, Brice; Hernán González, Roberto; McCarter, … - In: Games 6 (2015) 4, pp. 588-603

voting. Using a laboratory experiment to simulate a data-entry organization, we find that, while autocratic decision …

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Reacting to unfairness : group identity and dishonest behavior

Della Valle, Nives; Ploner, Matteo - In: Games 8 (2017) 3, pp. 1-19

We experimentally investigate whether individuals are more likely to engage in dishonest behavior after having experienced unfairness perpetrated by an individual with a salient group identity. Two individuals generate an endowment together, but only one can decide how to share it. They either...

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Moral entitlements and aspiration formation in asymmetric bargaining : experimental evidence from Germany and China

Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Walkowitz, Gari - In: Games 8 (2017) 4, pp. 1-25

Using a unique experimental data set, we investigate how asymmetric legal rights shape bargainers’ aspiration levels through moral entitlements derived from equity norms and number prominence. Aspiration formation is typically hard to observe in real life. Our study involves 15 negotiations...

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Decisions on extending group membership : evidence from a public good experiment

Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine; Thommes, Kirsten; … - In: Games 11 (2020) 4/61, pp. 1-27

We experimentally compare the consequences for group cooperation of two decision mechanisms involving the extension of group membership. We analyze an exogenous decision (random draw) and an endogenous decision (made by a particular group member) mechanism to extend a temporary agent's group...

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Weighted scoring committees

Mayer, Alexander; Napel, Stefan - In: Games 12 (2021) 4, pp. 1-17

Weighted committees allow shareholders, party leaders, etc. to wield different numbers of votes or voting weights as they decide between multiple candidates by a given social choice method. We consider committees that apply scoring methods such as plurality, Borda, or antiplurality rule. Many...

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Public information : relevance or salience?

Invernizzi, Giovanna M. - In: Games 11 (2020) 1/4, pp. 1-28

(regardless of accuracy). A simple lab experiment contradicts both hypotheses - subjects tend to follow public information when it …

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When two become one : how group mergers affect solidarity

Schmitz, Jan - In: Games 10 (2019) 3/30, pp. 1-42

prevailing in previously small groups to the test as new team members may not share the same norms and values. I present results … from an experiment in which subjects interact in groups and face the decision to help a group member who is in need of help … due to an exogenous shock. Subjects interact in small groups in the first part of the experiment and groups are randomly …

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An experimental study of strategic voting and accuracy of verdicts with sequential and simultaneous voting

Anderson, Lisa R.; Holt, Charles A.; Sieberg, Katri K.; … - In: Games 13 (2022) 2, pp. 1-29

In a model of simultaneous voting, Feddersen and Pesendorfer (1998) consider the possibility that jurors vote strategically, rather than sincerely reflecting their individual information. This results in the counterintuitive result that a jury is more likely to convict the innocent under a...

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Risk-averse and self-interested shifts in groups in both median and random rules

Kamijo, Yoshio; Tamura, Teruyuki - In: Games 14 (2023) 1, pp. 1-21

subjects in our experiment were only requested to show their faces to the other members, without further communication …

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