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Are Religious People More Prosocial? A Quasi-Experimental Study with Madrasah Pupils in a Rural Community in India
Ahmed, Ali M. - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008
Using quasi-experimental data, this paper examines the relationship between religiosity and prosocial behavior. In contrast to previous studies which identify religious people by how often they attend religious services or by their self-reported religiosity, this study compares the behavior of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190938
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Building Trust One Gift at a Time
Servátka, Maroš; Tucker, Steven; Vadovic, Radovan - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2009
This paper reports an experiment evaluating the effect of gift giving on building trust in a relationship. We have … giving leads to higher trust and efficiency but at the same time is probably not stable. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005056480
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In the back of your mind: Subliminal influences of religious concepts on prosocial behavior
Ahmed, Ali M.; Salas, Osvaldo - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008
Does religion enhance prosocial behavior? We investigate the ways in which implicit influences of religious concepts affect generosity and cooperation. In contrast to previous studies, we assess the direct impact of religion as an independent variable on prosocial behavior. We do so by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651804
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An Examination of the Effect of Messages on Cooperation under Double-Blind and Single-Blind Payoff Procedures
Deck, Cary; Servátka, Maroš; Tucker, Steven - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2012
Previous research has suggested that communication and especially promises in-crease cooperation in laboratory experiments. This has been taken as evidence for internal motivations such as guilt aversion or preference for promise keeping. The goals of this paper are to examine messages under a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010907406
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Do People Keep Socially Unverifiable Promises?
Deck, Cary; Servátka, Maroš; Tucker, Steven - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2011
Previous research has suggested that communication and especially promises increase cooperation in laboratory experiments. This has been taken as evidence for internal motivations such as guilt aversion or preference for promise keeping. The original goal of this paper was to examine promises...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371391
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Strategic Use of Trust
Servátka, Maroš; Tucker, Steven; Vadovic, Radovan - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2008
While most of the previous literature interprets trust as an action, we adopt a view that trust is represented by a …. In this paper we propose and test a conjecture that economic agents use trust strategically. That is, the agents have … incentives to inflate the perceived level of trust (the signal) in order to induce a more favorable outcome for themselves. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190255
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Comment on "Promises and Partnership"
Deck, Cary; Servátka, Maroš; Tucker, Steven - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2011
Charness and Dufwenberg (2006) find that promises increase cooperation and suggest that the behavior of subjects in their experiment is driven by guilt aversion. By modifying the procedures to include a double blind social distance protocol we test an alternative explanation that promise keeping...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914311
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Words Speak Louder Than Money
Servátka, Maroš; Tucker, Steven; Vadovič, Radovan - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2011
Should one use words or money to foster trust of the other party if no means of enforcing trustworthiness are available …? This paper reports an experiment studying the effectiveness of two types of mechanisms for promoting trust: a costly gift … game. Our data provide evidence that while both stand-alone mechanisms enhance trust, and a gift performs significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914312
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Words Speak Louder Than Money
Servátka, Maroš; Tucker, Steven; Vadovic, Radovan - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2008
This paper reports on an experiment studying the effectiveness of two types of mechanisms for promoting trust … enhance trust in comparison to the standard investment game. However, we find that the pecuniary mechanism performs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005111041
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La licitud de linteres: evolucio historica dun tema de moral economica
Feliu, Gaspar - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2008
The problem of the consideration of any interest like usury and the ways to avoid the ecclesiastical condemnation were some of the main economic and moral topics of the traditional Europe. This paper shows the origins and foundations of the ecclesiastical doctrine on the usury, the appearance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022406