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Economic Polarization and Antisocial Behavior: An Experiment

Bigoni, Maria; Bortolotti, Stefania; Nas Özen, Efşan - 2019

Economic inequality may fuel frustration, possibly leading to anger and antisocial behavior. We experimentally study a situation where only the rich can reduce inequality while the poor can express their discontent by destroying the wealth of a rich counterpart with whom they had no previous...

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Limited Self-Knowledge and Survey Response Behavior

Falk, Armin; Neuber, Thomas; Strack, Philipp - 2021

We study response behavior in surveys and show how the explanatory power of self-reports can be improved. First, we develop a choice model of survey response behavior under the assumption that the respondent has imperfect self-knowledge about her individual characteristics. In panel data, the...

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Gambling Habits and Probability Judgements in a Bayesian Task Environment

Dickinson, David L.; Reid, Parker - 2023

-gamblers). Our data failed to support our main hypotheses that experienced online gamblers would be more accurate Bayesian decision … comparisons between these types of participants also failed to show any difference in decision weights placed on the two …-reported gambling frequency was stronger for females. Decision modeling found a decreased weight placed on new evidence (over base rate …

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Trust as a Social Norm? A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment with Refugees in Switzerland

Baumgartner, Stefanie S.; Galeotti, Fabio; Madies, Thierry - 2025

Trust plays a crucial role in refugees' integration. This study examines how social information about trust levels among peers from home and host countries affects non-Western refugees' trust. Using a trust game, we measured experimentally trust levels among Swiss citizens, Turkish refugees, and...

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Belief Updating About Moral Norms: Does Group Identity Matter?

Dickinson, David L.; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2025

We investigate how group identity affects belief updating about moral norms. Using a Belief Updating task, we found that individuals follow a cautious version of Bayesian updating. Group identity itself does not directly affect belief updating. However, when given an information signal about the...

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An Experimental Test of Career Concerns

Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht; Raab, Philippe - 2004

reasonably approximate real-life decision makers? behavior. Testing this theory with field data is difficult since typically …

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An experimental test of a committee search model

Hizen, Yoichi; Kawata, Keisuke; Sasaki, Masaru - 2012

The objective of this paper is to design a laboratory experiment for an infinite-horizon sequential committee search model in order to test some of the implications obtained by the model in Albrecht, Anderson, and Vroman (2010) (AAV). We find that, compared with single-agent search, the search...

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Disclosure, trust and persuasion in insurance markets

de Meza, David; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Reyniers, Diane - 2010

This high-stakes experiment investigates the effect on buyers of mandatory disclosures concerning an insurance policy's value for money (the claims ratio) and the seller's commission. These information disclosures have virtually no effect despite most buyers claiming to value such information....

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Deception and incentives: how dishonesty undermines effort provision

Ederer, Florian; Fehr, Ernst - 2007

In this paper we show that subtle forms of deceit undermine the effectiveness of incentives. We design an experiment in which the principal has an interest in underreporting the true performance difference between the agents in a dynamic tournament. According to the standard approach, rational...

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Have you heard the news? How real-life expectations react to publicity

van der Wiel, Karen - 2009

As evidence is accumulating that subjective expectations influence behavior and that these expectations are sometimes biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to affect how people picture the future. This paper...

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