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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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Friend or foe? : Cooperation and learning in high-stakes games

Oberholzer-Gee, Felix; Waldfogel, Joel; White, Matthew W. - In: The review of economics and statistics 92 (2010) 1, pp. 179-187

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When is tit-for-tat unbeatable?

Dürsch, Peter; Oechssler, Joerg; Schipper, Burkhard - 2013 - Revised version

We characterize the class of symmetric two-player games in which tit-for-tat cannot be beaten even by very sophisticated opponents in a repeated game. It turns out to be the class of exact potential games. More generally, there is a class of simple imitation rules that includes tit-for-tat but...

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Performance pay and the erosion of worker cooperation : field experimental evidence

Burks, Stephen V. (contributor); … - 2006

; altruism ; conditional cooperation ; egoism ; social dilemma … Switzerland and that entering messengers must work in performance pay firms in the U.S. We find that the erosion of cooperation …

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When rules really make a difference : the effect of cooperation rules and self-sacrificing leadership on moral norms in social dilemmas

Mulder, Laetitia; Nelissen, Rob M. A. - In: Journal of business ethics : JOBE 95 (2010), pp. 57-72

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Optimal law enforcement with ordered leniency

Landeo, Claudia; Spier, Kathryn E. - 2018

This paper studies the design of enforcement policies to detect and deter harmful short-term activities committed by groups of injurers. With an ordered-leniency policy, the degree of leniency granted to an injurer who self-reports depends on his or her position in the self-reporting queue. By...

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Ordered leniency : an experimental study of law enforcement with self-reporting

Landeo, Claudia; Spier, Kathryn E. - 2018

receive reduced sanctions. We replicate the strategic environment described by Landeo and Spier (2018). In theory, the optimal …

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Conditional cooperation on three continents

Kocher, Martin; Cherry, Todd L.; Kroll, Stephan; … - 2007

We show in a public goods experiment on three continents that conditional cooperation is a universal behavioral … regularity. Yet, the number of conditional cooperators and the extent of conditional cooperation are much higher in the U ….S.A. than anywhere else. -- conditional cooperation ; public goods ; experiment …

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Conditional cooperation on three continents

Kocher, Martin; Cherry, Todd L.; Kroll, Stephan; … - 2007

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Toward the integration of personality theory and decision theory in the explanation of economic and health behavior

Rustichini, Aldo; DeYoung, Colin G.; Anderson, Jon; … - 2012

emphasizing variables derived from formal decision theory. In a data set on trainee truckers in a large US company, we provide a … comparing the predictive power of measurements derived from personality theory and decision theory for several individual …. Further, decision theory and personality variables are meaningfully related. For example, we confirm that cognitive ability …

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