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Social Setting, Intuition, and Experience in Laboratory Experiments Interact to Shape Cooperative Decision-Making

Capraro, Valerio - 2015

Recent studies suggest that cooperative decision-making in one-shot interactions is a history-dependent dynamic process: promoting intuition versus deliberation has typically a positive effect on cooperation (dynamism) among people living in a cooperative setting and with no previous experience...

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Polarization in Group Interactions

Iyer, Ganesh; Yoganarasimhan, Hema - 2018

We study the phenomenon of strategic polarization in group interactions. Agents with private preferences choose a public action (e.g., voice opinions), and the mean of their actions represents the group’s realized outcome. They face a trade-off between influencing the group outcome and...

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Cooperation in public goods games: Enhancing effects of group identity and competition

Horstmann, Elaine; Blankenberg, Ann-Kathrin; Schneider, Tim - 2017

A lot of economic and social situations can be described as contests in which agents need to distribute scare resources. Individual behavior plays an important role within these situations, while identity strongly impacts on behavior. This paper asks how group identity impacts the provision of a...

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Other-regarding preferences and leadership styles

Kocher, Martin; Pogrebna, Ganna; Sutter, Matthias - 2009

We use a laboratory experiment to examine whether and to what extent other-regarding preferences of team leaders … selfishness are more likely to exercise an autocratic leadership style by ignoring preferences of the other team members. Yet … assigned leaders to use a democratic leadership style by reaching team consensus. Male leaders and leaders influenced by group …

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Other-Regarding Preferences and Leadership Styles

Kocher, Martin - 2009

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Individual oath-swearing and lying under peer pressure

Kingsuwankul, Sorravich - 2023

Previous studies have shown that an oath can reduce lying at an individual level. Can oaths reduce lying in groups, a context where the prevalence of lying is typically higher? Results from a lab experiment reveal that the impact of an oath on lying in a group context depends on the incentive...

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The incentive effects of tournaments and peer effects in team production : evidence from esports

Mao, Eric - In: Journal of sports economics 24 (2023) 2, pp. 174-192

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The Collective Benefits of Feeling Good and Letting Go : Positive Emotion and (Dis)Inhibition Interact to Predict Cooperative Behavior

Rand, David G.; Kraft-Todd, Gordon T.; Gruber, June - 2015

Cooperation is central to human existence, forming the bedrock of everyday social relationships and larger societal structures. Thus, understanding the psychological underpinnings of cooperation is of both scientific and practical importance. Recent work using a dual-process framework suggests...

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Other-regarding preferences, group identity and political participation : an experiment

Robalo, Pedro; Schram, Arthur; Sonnemans, Joep - 2013

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Pricing group membership

Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha; Cabrales, Antonio - 2020

We consider a model where agents differ in their ‘types’ which determines their voluntary contribution towards a public good. We analyze what the equilibrium composition of groups are under centralized and centralized choice. We show that there exists a top-down sorting equilibrium i.e. an...

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