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We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
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We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060138
individual and his social reference point. In the experiment we reproduce a workplace environment whereby subjects interact in an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010253153
experiments. In the first experiment, we elicit the value and probability weighting functions both under known and unknown … probability transformations rather than utility transformations. In the second experiment, we examine the effects of an increase …
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This study test whether social reference points impact individual risk taking. In a laboratory experiment, decision …
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points are determined by expectations. In the first experiment, we endow subjects with an item and randomize the probability … determined by the status quo or when preferences are reference-independent. In the second experiment, we randomly assign subjects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014201048
We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...
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Many important intertemporal decisions are made by groups rather than individuals. What happens to collective decisions when there is internal conflict about the tradeoff between present and future has not been thoroughly investigated so far. We study experimentally the causal effect of group...
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, because the economics literature on group decision making has, so far, assumed homogeneity within groups. In a lab experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029172
Many important intertemporal decisions are made by groups rather than individuals. What happens to collective decisions when there is internal conflict about the tradeoff between present and future has not been thoroughly investigated so far. We study experimentally the causal effect of group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415076