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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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The values of ex-ante and ex-post communication in dictator games

Langenbach, Pascal - 2014

two experimentswhich study how the timing of messages affects dictators' decisions (experiment 1) and which value … recipients attach to communication opportunities (experiment 2). The first experiment shows that the effect of communication on …, recipients in a second experiment reveal a strong preference for pre-decision messages: Their willingnessto pay for pre …

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Social anchor effects in decision-making under ambiguity

Lahno, Amrei M. - 2014

I experimentally examine whether feedback about others' choices provides an anchor for decision-making under ambiguity …

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Over-confidence and low-cost heuristics : an experimental investigation of choice behavior

Cicognani, Simona; Mittone, Luigi - 2014

order to disentangle different choice dynamics, they devise a laboratory experiment with a novel experimental task in which … they model the choice of different alternatives through high or low cognitive costs and feedback information provided to …

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Concern for relative standing and deception

Galanis, Spyros; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2014

We report results from a sender-receiver deception game, which tests whether an individual's decision to deceive is influenced by a concern for relative standing in a reference group. The sender ranks six possible outcomes, each specifying a payoff for him and the receiver. A message is then...

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The effect of belief elicitation game play : conference paper

Hoffmann, Timo - 2014

The assumptions that subjects hold beliefs and that the chosen actions are not altered by a proper elicitation of these beliefs are widely used in economics. In this paper I experimentally test whether the second assumption is correct. Especially controlling for different game properties, I find...

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Bargaining or searching for a better price? : an experimental study

Feri, Francesco; Gantner, Anita - 2010

policy. -- bargaining experiment ; outside option ; search …

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Learning from the experiments of others simultaneous search, coordination in R&D and diffusion processes : laboratory evidence

Große, Niels D.; Kirchkamp, Oliver - 2009

; coordination ; experiment …

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The differential effect of narratives

Hillenbrand, Adrian; Verrina, Eugenio - 2018

Narratives pervade almost any aspect of our life and play a particularly important role in moral and prosocial decision-making. We study how positive (stories in favor of a prosocial action) and negative (stories in favor of a selfish action) narratives influence prosocial behavior. Our main...

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The coevolution of morals under indirect reciprocity

Gaudeul, Alexia; Keser, Claudia; Müller, Stephan - 2019

laboratory experiment, we find that more than 75% of subjects play strategies that belong to the predicted equilibrium set …

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