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Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation? On the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Altruism

Fehr, Ernst; Henrich, Joseph - 2003

In recent years a large number of experimental studies have documented the existence of strong reciprocity among humans. Strong reciprocity means that people willingly repay gifts and punish the violation of cooperation and fairness norms even in anonymous one-shot encounters with genetically...

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Social preferences and the variability of conditional cooperation

Baader, Malte; Gächter, Simon; Lee, Kyeongtae; Sefton, … - 2022

We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first study we conduct online experiments in which subjects play eight Sequential Prisoner's Dilemma games with payoffs systematically varied across games. We find that few second...

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Die dunkle Seite der Gerechtigkeit

Dilger, Alexander - 2011

In diesem Beitrag geht es um subjektive Gerechtigkeitsvorstellungen, nicht Gerechtigkeit an sich, da erstere im …The focus of this paper is on subjective ideas of justice, not justice in itself, because only the former are … positive. First, ideas of justice might imperil economic efficiency such that all or some affected persons are worse off than …

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Collaboration, alphabetical order and gender discrimination: Evidence from the lab

Wiborg, Vegard Sjurseike; Brekke, Kjell Arne; Nyborg, Karine - 2019

experiment, pairs of subjects solve simple mathematical problems. Subjects then hire others to perform similar tasks. Before … find no evidence of gender discrimination in either treatment, however, possibly indicating that gender stereotypes are of …

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Collaboration, Alphabetical Order and Gender Discrimination – Evidence from the Lab

Wiborg, Vegard Sjurseike; Brekke, Kjell Arne; Nyborg, Karine - 2020

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Giving in dictator games: regard for others or regard by others?

Koch, Alexander K.; Normann, Hans-Theo - 2005

experiment. We find no differences between treatments. This suggests that those dictators who give are purely internally …

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Mechanisms for efficient voting with private information about preferences

Engelmann, Dirk; Grimm, Veronika - 2008

We experimentally study behavior in a simple voting game where players have private information about their preferences. With random matching, subjects overwhelmingly follow the dominant strategy to exaggerate their preferences, which leads to inefficiency. We analyze an exogenous linking...

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Personal identity in the dictator game

Aguiar, Fernando; Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Espinosa, María Paz - 2007

is studied experimentally. The experiment allow us to study the main parameters of the model, suggesting that we should …

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Investigating the failure to best respond in experimental games

Alempaki, Despoina; Colman, Andrew M.; Kölle, Felix; … - 2019

In experimental games, a substantial minority of players often fail to best respond. Using two-person 3x3 one-shot games, we investigated whether 'structuring' the pre-decision deliberation process produces greater consistency between individuals' stated values and beliefs on the one hand and...

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The Janus Face of Cooperation: An Intra- and Cross-Cultural Review

Walkowitz, Gari; Goerg, Sebastian J. - 2007

This paper introduces a two-sided methodological framework for studies on cooperation based on a new game design. Presented games are continuous prisoner's dilemma games with positive and negative presentations of an identically structured decision problem. Decision makers can choose an...

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