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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"dictator game"”.
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Revealed and Hidden Social Preferences
… identity on economic decision-making through Dictator Game and Lying Dictator Game experiments conducted in different cultural contexts. The research compares students from Chapman University (USA) and Wuhan University (China), with each participant informed of their counterpart’s university …
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Experiments on emotions, matching, and decision-making
… with financial incentives in the investment game. I also explore the characteristics of guilt averse participants with respect to personality traits. In Matching and Confidence, I study how matching affects confidence. In collaboration with Friederike Mengel (University of Essex and Lund …
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Social Influences on Children's Option Valuations
… resource distribution methodology, the Dictator Game, to test whether 4-year-old children's preferences were influenced by the preferences of their peers. Children observed, via video, four peers sequentially display the same preference for one of two stickers. Each peer expressed liking …
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ARE THE MORALLY EXCEPTIONAL CONSISTENTLY MORAL?
… participants took part in part 3 of the study (a dictator game task and moral questionnaires battery). Participants were classified as morally exceptional or morally indifferent based on their performance in the four tasks. Findings indicate that the morally exceptional do, indeed, significantly …
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On Individual Decision Making and Responsibility for Others
… investigations since the first appearance of the dictator game, which pointed out that, when people have to allocate resources and determine their own and others' payoffs, they decide accordingly to some well-defined distributional preferences. These, depending on the decisional setting and on …
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Essays in Behavioural and Experimental Economics
… students participated in three different games (a public goods game, a response game, and an investment game) and in a task for eliciting risk preferences. I find that only children are less likely to punish for misbehaviour and more likely to choose social welfare maximising actions in …
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Three perspectives on social decision-making
… how they might behave in a sequential game of chance (a hidden die game) with hypothetical partners and possible cheating. Extending previous findings, I found evidence of types that are predicted by a measure of social preferences. Many people are willing to collude, given the chance. …
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The Behavioral and Neural Bases of Social Economic Decision-Making
… charity donation behavior in a modified dictator game. The right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ) has been associated with social decision-making, but the exact neural mechanism of charitable giving remains unknown. In our experiment, participants allocate money between themselves and a …
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The effects of reputation on collaboration
… reputations impacted collaboration in an online dictator game. Previous research shows that human participants in dictator games are more generous towards players with a positive reputation. In our study (n = 260), the participant played a multi-round trivia game with three "agents" (presented as …
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Altruism and the role of affect: an investigation into the causal effects of positive emotions and its rationality on altruism
… more tokens to anonymous others in a dictator game as compared to subjects in the mild neutral affect treatment. This result is robust in all specifications considered. Chapter four focuses on characterising whether emotions disrupt rational choices in altruism. In psychology, emotions …
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Essays in Discrimination, Informational Preferences, and Social Preferences Under Uncertainty
… are left unknown. Using a third-party dictator game, we evaluate such judgments. We find that redistribution is less common and more sensitive to efficiency considerations for equitable allocations. Furthermore, third-parties punish (reward) inequitable (equitable) allocations, a …
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The Production and Evaluation of Evidence in Experimental Economics
… our replication of Engel's (2011) meta-study of dictator game experiments. Using his data and statistical models, we determine his results to be robust with one important exception. In Engel's report, the effects of the take-option on giving are statistically insignificant. By contrast, we find …
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Decomposing trust into risk preferences, altruism, and subjective beliefs: An experimental analysis
… the Berg, Dickhaut and McCabe (1995) investment game to elicit levels of trust from players of the game. However, there is a growing body of literature suggesting that factors such as risk preferences, altruism, and subjective beliefs may confound this measure of trust, thereby questioning the …
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The effect of psychological factors on morality. the role of culture and moral foundations.
… between moral judgment and allocations in the dictator game. The third study investigated the relationship between (dis-) honest behaviour, moral judgment and moral identity in two different cultures, namely Saudi Arabia and the UK. It has been found that there are no statistically significant …
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Economic Experiments on Conflict, Information Acquisition, and Public Goods
… Ignorance and Group Identity in Public Goods Games,” focuses on the effect of information acquisition on contributions to public goods. I also explore human conflict in the third chapter, “Risk Preferences and Reform Paths: Experimental Evidence.”</p> <p>In my first chapter, “Well, at Least I …
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Reputation and cooperation in social dilemma games
… played two-person Prisoner’s Dilemma games without partner selection, could observe some other interactions, and could communicate reputational information about possible opponents to each other. Reputational information clearly influenced cooperation decisions. Although cooperation …