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A central question in the study of altruism has been whether there is a systematic gender difference in giving behavior …
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guarantee reciprocity, we see that there is still significant evidence of altruism, which we then confirm using laboratory …
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highest level of altruism. We additionally observed changes in the likelihood of lying when reporting the donations by …
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This paper shows that social interactions can induce families of migrants to care about hierarchical social status because it serves as a signal device of non-observable income. Hence , a concern for social status induces theses families to engage in conspicuous consumption in order to signal...
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Based on an experiment conducted with undergraduate students from three different majors (business economics …, psychology and engineering), we study the relationship between honesty and altruism. We asked participants to toss a coin with a … majors cheat if a penalty is requested. Surprisingly, when altruism plays a role, economists tend to have the most altruistic …
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There is neuroscientific evidence that people consider future versions of themselves as other people. As a result, intertemporal choice should refer to the interaction between multiple selves. We combine this notion of multiple selves in delay discounting with the approach for other-regarding...
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We conduct a field experiment to test the non-monotonic effect of deadline length on task completion. Participants are …
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We conduct a field experiment to test the non-monotonic effect of deadline length on task completion. Participants are …
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an experiment to test how the presence of impure public goods affects pro-social behaviour. We set parameters, such that …
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individual’s behavior, such as altruism, fairness, reciprocity, self-serving bias, kindness, intentions etc, manifest itself in …
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