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underlying inequality, differing fairness views, and differing perceptions of social norms. In this study, we directly measure … report different fairness views and beliefs about task performance, but not different beliefs about social norms. Further …
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We study how cooperation-enforcing institutions dynamically affect values and behavior using a lab experiment designed to create individual specific histories of past institutional exposure. We show that the effect of past institutions is mostly due to “indirect” behavioral spillovers:...
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We examine gender differences in trust in another party's cooperation (CC) or its ability (AC). While men and women do not differ concerning trust in cooperation, gender has a strong influence when trust in another subject's ability is required. -- trust ; gender ; experiment ; cooperation ;...
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The over/underconfidence behavior has been explained as a bias of the cognitive process in the decision maker. Such bias has been mainly justified by the difficulty of the task or the problem to decide upon. It’s the so called 'hard-easy effect' (Lichtenstein and Fischhoff, 1977). In this...
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rigorous theoretical predictions that are then tested with pre-registered experiments in China and the UK. Social norms … potential microfoundations for the inherent human tendency to follow social norms and punish norm violators, while respecting …
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collective of insured individuals or the taxpayers) bearing the costs. Professional norms are viewed as restraining physicians … of professional norms on prospective physicians' trade-offs between her own profits, the patients' benefits, and the … payers' expenses for medical care. We find that professional norms derived from the Hippocratic tradition shift weight to the …
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This note offers two comments on the article "Social Influences towards Conformism in Economic Experiments" by Hargreaves Heap that is to appear in the Economics e-Journal. One relates to the concept of conformism, the other lines out some phenomena where an explicit recognition of group...
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Social norms can act as safeguards against corporate misconduct, but can also foster undesirable behavior. To study … differences in individual resistance to social norms, we conduct a laboratory experiment on misrepresentation of earnings. There … are systematic differences among individuals' reactions to social norms approving or disapproving of misrepresentation …
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Peer observation can influence social norm perceptions as well as behavior in various moral domains, but is the tendency to be influenced by and conform with peers domain-general? In an online experiment (N = 815), we studied peer effects in honesty and cooperation and tested the...
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