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: promoting intuition versus deliberation has typically a positive effect on cooperation (dynamism) among people living in a … cooperative setting and with no previous experience in economic games on cooperation (history-dependence). Here we report on a lab … that cooperation is a learning process, rather than an instinctive impulse or a self-controlled choice, and that experience …
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We invited "residents" of a virtual world who vary in real-world age and occupation to play a trust game with stakes comparable to "in world" wages. In different treatments, the lab wall was adorned with an emotively suggestive photograph, a suggestive text was added to the instructions, or both...
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We invited “residents” of a virtual world who vary in real-world age and occupation to play a trust game with stakes comparable to “in world” wages. In different treatments, the lab wall was adorned with an emotively suggestive photograph, a suggestive text was added to the instructions,...
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This paper investigates if and how other-regarding preferences governing giving decisions in dictator games are affected in risky environments in which the payoff of the recipient is random. We demonstrate that, whenever the risk is actuarially neutral, the donation of dictators with a purely ex...
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In prosocial decisions, decision-makers are inherently uncertain about how their decisions impact others’ utility – we call this interpersonal uncertainty. We show that people’s response to interpersonal uncertainty shapes well-known patterns of prosocial behavior. First, using standard...
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We review two fundamentally different ways that decision time is related to cooperation. First, studies have … experimentally manipulated decision time to understand how cooperation is related to the use of intuition versus deliberation …. Current evidence supports the claim that time pressure (and, more generally, intuition) favors cooperation. Second …
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This paper uses laboratory mechanism design in an investment environment to examine the impact of empowering investors with the right to veto the investee's profit distribution decision on the level of trust and trustworthiness. One of the key findings is that the empowerment of investors...
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Sixteen subjects' brain activity were scanned using FMRI as they made choices, expressed beliefs, and expressed iterated 2nd-order beliefs (what they think others believe they will do) in eight games. Cingulate cortex and prefrontal areas (active in theory of mind and social reasoning) are...
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