An economic anatomy of culture: Attitudes and behaviour in inter- and intra-national ultimatum game experiments

Lost in translation? The effect of cultural values on mergers around the world

“…Knack and Keefer (1997) cite experimental evidence from 15 countries that shows that variation in cross-country levels of observable trusting behavior correlate with trust levels reported in the WVS. Chuah, Hoffmann, Jones, and Williams (2009) report that Malaysian participants, identified as more collectivist by WVS responses, offer significantly higher offers in ultimatum game experiments than do British participants, identified as more individualistic. In public goods experiments, Gächter, Herrmann, and Thöni (2010) find that WVS-based measures of collectivism predict cooperative behavior.…”

Culture and cooperation

“…Another distinguishing feature of our approach from previous cross-cultural economics experiments is that many of them test specific (proximate) hypotheses that are derived from the compared cultures (Yamagishi 1988;Yamagishi & Yamagishi 1994;Kachelmeier & Shehata 1997;Yamagishi et al 1998;Hayashi et al 1999;Buchan et al 2002Buchan et al , 2009Holm & Danielson 2005;Chuah et al 2007Chuah et al , 2009Bohnet et al 2008Bohnet et al , 2010Wu et al 2009;Bornhorst et al in press).…”

Virtual world experimentation: An exploratory study

“…The second avenue for testing subject pool suitability is to survey and compare our subjects' values and demographics to those of standard experimental subjects and general populations. Values provide a measurement of a respondent's cultural orientation and are known to affect behaviour (Rokeach, 1973;Chuah et al, 2006). We used the human values survey designed by Shalom Schwartz for the European Social Survey (ESS) project (Schwartz, 2002).…”

“…In particular, UG-behaviour has been shown as sensitive to the cultural and demographic characteristics of subjects (Camerer, 2003;Oosterbeek et al, 2004). Buchan et al (1997) and Chuah et al (2007) (2003)). Table 2 reports summary statistics of UG bargaining by SL-subjects compared with behaviour reported in RPOZ for three locations and by CHJW for UK subjects.…”