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When a nudge backfires : using observation with social and economic incentives to promote pro-social behavior

Bolton, Gary E.; Dimant, Eugen; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2019 - This version: April 21, 2019

-social effect, and if anything it backfires. In additional experiments we confirm that this backfiring effect is driven by inequity …

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Paradoxes and mechanisms for choice under risk by James C. Cox, Vjollca Sadiraj, and Ulrich Schmidt

Cox, James C.; Sadiraj, Vjollca; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2011

hypothesis or the independence axiom. We report two experiments with 710 subjects. Experiment 1 provides the first simple test of …Experiments on choice under risk typically involve multiple decisions by individual subjects. The choice of mechanism … the isolation hypothesis. Experiment 2 is a crossed design with six payoff mechanisms and five lottery pairs that can …

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When a nudge backfires : combining (im)plausible deniability with social and economic incentives to promote behavioral change

Bolton, Gary E.; Dimant, Eugen; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2020 - This version: January 17, 2020

Both theory and recent empirical evidence on nudging suggest that observability of behavior acts as an instrument for promoting (discouraging) pro-social (anti-social) behavior. We connect three streams of literature (nudging, social preferences, and social norms) to investigate the universality...

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