The Peculiar Power of Pairs

Sass, Markus; Weimann, Joachim

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“…In later experiments, Sass and Weimann (2015a) investigated the behavioral dynamics in repeated trust and mutual gift-giving games, and they also found that the propensity to give decreases after repetition of the games. Sass and Weimann (2015b) again reported the same during a series of repeated standard public good games. While Sass et al (2015c) examined how social distance influences behavior in repeated dictator experiments across different time spans, and they found that behavioral dynamics shift from less selfishness to greater levels of selfishness.…”

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Prosocial Behavior and the Individual Normative Standard of Fairness within a Dynamic Context: Experimental Evidence

Mekvabishvili,

Natsvaladze

et al. 2023

JSS

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In this paper, we present an experimental study of prosocial behavior and individual normative standards of fairness under the novel context of a dynamic dictator game. In addition, we explore the role of informal institutions in shaping individuals' cooperation within the domain of a public goods game under its direct exposure and in subsequent prosociality beyond its reach in the domain of the dictator game. We find that dictators' average offers in our study are quite close to the typical results found in other dictator game experiments and they are quite stable over two periods. However, dictators become more selfish after they have had the experience of playing a public goods game with peer punishment. Interestingly, we found that dictators act significantly more selfishly relative to their own declared individual normative standard of fairness. Furthermore, our experiment reveals a large share of antisocial punishment in the public goods game and a peer-to-peer punishment mechanism to be an inefficient tool to promote cooperation, however in an environment that rules out a suitable normative consensus and collective choice.

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Section: Related Literaturementioning

confidence: 74%

Prosocial Behavior and the Individual Normative Standard of Fairness within a Dynamic Context: Experimental Evidence

Mekvabishvili,

Natsvaladze

et al. 2023

JSS

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Die Rolle von Verhaltensökonomik und experimenteller Forschung in Wirtschaftswissenschaft und Politikberatung

Weimann

2015

Perspektiven Der Wirtschaftspolitik

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Accounting for Changing Tastes: Approaches to Explaining Unstable Individual Preferences

Jacobs

2016

Review of Economics

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Standard economic theory assumes individual preferences to be fixed and exogenously given. This view has been challenged by numerous empirical observations. In reaction to those challenges, economic theory has been modified, mostly by including additional arguments into individuals' utility functions. Among the approaches that tackle preference change are new consumer theory, habit formation, interdependent and status preferences, social and emotional influences, and reference point-dependent preferences. Hence, while standard economics largely abide by their assumption of stable preferences, an array of alternative approaches is now available to account for changing tastes. Some of these approaches are old and have been discussed in the literature for many decades while others are younger. However, all approaches have in common that they, in some cases surprisingly, have not made it to standard microeconomics textbooks. This survey aims at putting the approaches in perspective. For each of them, empirical evidence as well as methodological issues are discussed.

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The Peculiar Power of Pairs

Cited by 3 publications

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Prosocial Behavior and the Individual Normative Standard of Fairness within a Dynamic Context: Experimental Evidence

Prosocial Behavior and the Individual Normative Standard of Fairness within a Dynamic Context: Experimental Evidence

Die Rolle von Verhaltensökonomik und experimenteller Forschung in Wirtschaftswissenschaft und Politikberatung

Accounting for Changing Tastes: Approaches to Explaining Unstable Individual Preferences

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