We investigate how cognitive ability and age affect giving behavior in single-blind dictator game experiments with a sample comprising 514 non-student participants in Japan. First, we found a negative correlation between cognitive ability and giving behavior. Focusing on dictators with medium or...

This paper investigates gender differences in donating behavior in double-anonymous dictator game experiments. To do so, we developed a new treatment where researchers can connect the gender of a dictator to her/his donation amount despite both female and male dictators being gathered in a room...

Dictators tend to reduce the allocation amount in the experimental risky dictator game in which recipients gain the allocation probabilistically compared with the baseline dictator game. This could be attributed to probabilistic determination and social image. We conducted a series of...