Voice matters in a dictator game

Yamamori, Tetsuo; Kato, Kazuhiko; Kawagoe, Toshiji; Matsui, Aya

doi:10.1007/s10683-007-9168-y

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“…For example, the dictator game is used to study the effects of voice on the decision-makers' kindness (see Andreoni and Rao, 2011;Charness and Rabin, 2005;Mohlin and Johannesson, 2008;Rankin, 2006;and Yamamori et al, 2008). 5…”

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How voice shapes reactions to impartial decision-makers: An experiment on participation procedures

Kleine¹,

Langenbach²,

Zhurakhovska³

2017

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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This paper studies how participation in decision procedures affects people's reactions to the deciding authority. In our economic experiment, having voice, i.e., the opportunity to state one's opinion prior to a decision, significantly increases subordinates' subsequent kindness towards the authority. These positive effects occur irrespectively of the decisions' content. The experimental findings stress the positive effects of voice when subordinates and authorities interact. Our results suggest that in organizations, but also in the legal and political arena, participative decision-making can be used to guide people's actions after decisions have been taken.

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How voice shapes reactions to impartial decision-makers: An experiment on participation procedures

Kleine¹,

Langenbach²,

Zhurakhovska³

2017

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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“…This line of study was initiated by the seminal papers of Farrell (1987Farrell ( , 1988. Ellingsen and Östling (2006), Crawford (2007), and Yamamori et al (2008) follow this line. Research conducted in this strand has basically proved that one-way pre-play communication works well as a coordination device between players.…”

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Behavioral Interactions, Markets, and Economic Dynamics

Ikeda¹,

Katô²,

Ohtake³

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“…Using the standard dictator game setting, these studies mostly find that allowing receivers to send a request to decision makers increases the amount allocated to the receivers (Andreoni and Rao 2011, Mohlin and Johannesson 2008, Yamamori et al 2008). Yet, communication may lead to lower transfers if requests are above the equal split (Rankin 2006).…”

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Fairness and Persuasion. How Stakeholder Communication Affects Impartial Decision Making

2014

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We study experimentally whether and to what extent impartial decision makers are influenced by stakeholders' fairness opinions in an allocation decision. The setting allows for different focal fairness rules to be considered. We compare communication treatments, in which one of the stakeholders states his or her opinion prior to the allocation decision, to a baseline without communication opportunities. We find that stakeholders who state their opinion in the communication treatments are allocated significantly less money than their counterparts in the baseline. Asymmetric reactions to the statements appear to be the driving force behind this result: impartial decision makers deviate from their initial fairness judgment and follow stakeholders' opinions only if the requests are moderate; they largely ignore high monetary claims. Our results contribute to understanding the underlying processes that may affect the decisions of judges, juries, arbitrators, referees, or other impartial decision makers in interaction with stakeholders.

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Voice matters in a dictator game

Abstract: Communication, Voice, Dictator game, Economic experiment, C72, C91, D64,

Cited by 317 publications

References 9 publications

How voice shapes reactions to impartial decision-makers: An experiment on participation procedures

How voice shapes reactions to impartial decision-makers: An experiment on participation procedures

Behavioral Interactions, Markets, and Economic Dynamics

Fairness and Persuasion. How Stakeholder Communication Affects Impartial Decision Making

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