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the individual and thereby assessing the limits of these fairness concerns. This study reports on Trust game experiments … by changing to an unfair allocation. This modification appeared to make the trust aspect more salient which can explain a … relatively strong consistency between trust behavior and answers to attitudinal trust questions. …
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We investigate how cross-cutting ethnic and religious identities as well as the strength of individual religiosity and fundamentalism affect individual cooperation. In a repeated prisoner’s dilemma experiment, information about subjects’ religious and ethnic identities was either revealed or...
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It has been reported that betrayal aversion in influences the trust decision (Bohnet and Zeckhauser 2004; Bohnet et al … decision to repay trust. We compare trustees' behavior when betrayal is obfuscated to an identical monetary payoffs situation … when it is revealed. Our result suggests that concern for betrayal costs influences not only the decision to trust but also …
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We explore gender differences in trust and trustworthiness between male and female individuals and groups consisting of … or no significant differences either in trust or trustworthiness between male and female groups. Our results have …
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We use the investment game introduced by Berg, Dickhaut and McCabe (1995) to explore gender differences in trust and … greater trust than women do while women show higher levels of reciprocity. Trusting behavior is driven strongly by … expectations of reciprocation. We posit that the lower levels of trust exhibited by women may be attributed to a higher degree of …
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We test the empirical effectiveness of two theoretical proposals to equilibrate bargaining power in bilateral bargaining. Our experimental design is based on the two-player versions of the multibidding game (Pérez-Castrillo & Wettstein, 2001) and the bid-and-propose game (Navarro & Perea,...
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We enrich the choice task of responders in ultimatum games by allow- ing them to independently decide whether to collect what is offered to them and whether to destroy what the proposer demanded. Such a multidimensional response format intends to cast further light on the motives guiding...
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In a laboratory experiment, I test whether guilt aversion, i.e., a preference to fulfill other people’s expectations, plays out stronger if agents are socially close. I induce two different group identities among participants. They play a dictator game. Dictators either play with a recipient...
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Laboratory experiments are an important methodology in economics, especially in the field of behavioral economics. However, it is still debated to what extent results from laboratory experiments can be applied to field settings. One highly important question with respect to the external validity...
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