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Large effects of small cues : priming selfish economic decisions

Snir, Avichai; Levy, Dudi; Wang, Dian; Chen, Haipeng; … - 2024 - Revised: April 21, 2024

Many experimental studies report that economics students tend to act more selfishly than students of other disciplines, a finding that received widespread public and professional attention. Two main explanations that the existing literature offers for the differences found in the behavior...

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An eye-tracking study of feature-based choice in one-shot games

Devetag, Giovanna; Di Guida, Sibilla; Polonio, Luca - 2013

We analyze subjects' eye movements while they make decisions in a series of one-shot games. The majority of them perform a partial and selective analysis of the payoff matrix, often ignoring the payoffs of the opponent and/or paying attention only to specific cells. Our results suggest that...

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On the construction of social preferences in lab experiments

Borgloh, Sarah; Dannenberg, Astrid; Aretz, Bodo - 2010

This paper studies the construction of social preferences in the lab. Experimental subjects have the opportunity to donate to a charity and to allocate money in a conventional dictator game. The results show that charitable donations and dictator game allocations are positively correlated. The...

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The resolution game : a multiple selves perspective

Migrow, Dimitri; Uhl, Matthias - 2009

The notion of choice inconsistency is widely spread in the literature on behavioral economics. Several approaches were used to account for the observation that people reverse their choices over time. This paper aims to explain the formation of resolutions regarded as internal self-binding...

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Institutions as game theory outcomes : towards a cognitive-experimental inquiry

Ambrosino, Angela - In: International journal of management, economics and … 2 (2013) 2, pp. 129-150

This paper investigates two different approaches to the analysis of institutions using game theory and discusses their … methodological and theoretical implications for further research. Starting from von Neumann and Morgenstern's theory, we investigate … method to investigate institutions as the unplanned outcome of self- interested individual behavior? While the game theory …

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Institutions as Game Theory Outcomes : Towards a Cognitive-Experimental Inquiry

Ambrosino, Angela - 2013

This paper investigates two different approaches to the analysis of institutions using game theory and discusses their … methodological and theoretical implications for further research. Starting from von Neumann and Morgenstern's theory, we investigate … method to investigate institutions as the unplanned outcome of self-interested individual behavior? While the game theory …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080474