Reciprocity in a two-part dictator game

Ben‐Ner, Avner; Putterman, Louis; Kong, Fanmin; Magan, Dan

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2002.12.001

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“…Ben-Ner, Putterman, Kong, and Magan (2004) found that a history of religious training leads to greater offers in a two-part Dictator game, but is not associated with reciprocation by the other player. Tan (2006), using Dictator and Ultimatum games among German participants, found that his overall measure of religiosity that combined various dimensions (belief, experience, and ritual) was not predictive of gameplay.…”

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Are Religious Individuals More Generous, Trusting, and Cooperative? An Experimental Test of the Effect of Religion on Prosociality

Paciotti¹,

Richerson²,

Baum³

et al. 2011

The Economics of Religion: Anthropological Approaches

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We AU :1 investigated the effect of religion on generosity, interpersonal trust, and cooperation by using games developed by experimental economists (Dictator, Trust, and Public Goods). In these experiments, individuals were paired or grouped with unknown strangers to test the degree to which religion promotes prosocial behavior. We evaluated group-and individuallevel effects of religion on prosocial behavior across the three games. Although playing the games in a religious setting showed no overall difference as compared to a secular setting, we did find a weak association

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“…Participants played the Dictator game following the elaborate double-blind procedures pioneered by Hoffman, McCabe, Shachat, and Smith (1994) and modified by Ben-Ner et al (2004). This procedure gives individuals complete privacy when making their decision, and gives them almost complete anonymity from the experimenter.…”

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Are Religious Individuals More Generous, Trusting, and Cooperative? An Experimental Test of the Effect of Religion on Prosociality

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Richerson²,

Baum³

et al. 2011

The Economics of Religion: Anthropological Approaches

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“…Following Chen et al (1998), Long (1983, and Danziger et al (2008), we therefore separate the creativity items to form the creativity factor C (two items, α = 0.76), while the other items form the (entrepreneurial) business talent factor BT (ten items, α = 0.79). 12 Similar to Ben-Ner et al (2004), who investigate the extent to which personality can affect behavior in dictator games, we also include the 'Big Five' personality traits, which describe five broad psychological factors or dimensions of personality: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness. Although they have been found to be related to entrepreneurship (Zhao et al, 2010;Gruber, forthcoming), we acknowledge that there exists an inconclusive discussion whether such general traits have potential in explaining entrepreneurial behavior (see Rauch and Frese, 2007).…”

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The good, the bad, and the talented: Entrepreneurial talent and selfish behavior

Weitzel¹,

Urbig²,

Desai³

et al. 2010

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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Abstract:Talent allocation models assume that entrepreneurially talented people are selfish and thus allocate into unproductive or even destructive activities if these offer the highest private returns. This paper experimentally analyzes selfish preferences of the entrepreneurially talented. We find that making a distinction between creative talent and business talent explains systematic differences in selfish behavior. Generally, both the less business talented and the more creative are more willing to forego private payoffs to avoid losses to others. A moderator analysis reveals that less creative individuals with business talent are significantly more selfish than all others, including the creative with business talent. This finding applies to both certain and risky payoffs with and without negative externalities. The paper makes a contribution to entrepreneurship research by qualifying the implications of talent allocation models and highlighting the importance of distinguishing between the two types of entrepreneurial talent. We also add to the field of experimental economics by advancing research on altruism under risk and with negative externalities.

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“…From the answers they gave, we can be confident they were really unaware of the experimental hypotheses. Finally, as explained above (see Section 5.2.1), we collected and included in our regressions a large number of controls that have been proved to be associated with nice and reciprocating behaviour (Ben-Ner et al (2004); Giannetti and Orsini (2014)). …”

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Does Death Make Us All Equal? Conformism and Status-Seeking Under Mortality Salience

Orsini

Ciaramelli

2015

SSRN Journal

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The thought of one's own death induces anxiety and threatens self-esteem. According to Terror Management Theory, to reduce this existential threat individuals typically embrace their cultural worldview, and seek for an increase in self-esteem and status by improving their productivity. Within an experimental economy setting, this paper investigates the effect of Mortality Salience (MS) on individual productivity, using for the first time a real-effort task where the economic incentive is to not perform. We investigated whether the improvement in productivity was significantly driven by self-esteem or status seeking, providing either private feedback alone or, additionally, public feedback. Always controlling for participants' individual susceptibility to the MS induction, our results indicate that subjects generally tend to be more sensitive to in-group conformity under MS compared to a control (Music) induction condition. That is, they initially improve their performance to enhance self-esteem, but then homologate to average performance levels, consistent with the incentive not to perform. However, for a subset of less materialistic participants, with strong susceptibility to MS, performance levels constantly improved along the task. This research has benefited from discussions with a number of people. We would like to thank Maria Bigoni, Fabio Galeotti, Alexia Gaudeul, Antonino Rotolo as well as participants at SONIC meeting and internal seminar at University of Bologna. Financial support from the University of Bologna -FARB research project "Mortality salience, conformitá a norme giuridiche e sociali, comportamenti economici: modelli teorici e metodologie sperimentali" is gratefully aknowledged. KeywordsMan is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But, if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.Blaise Pascal, Pensées.

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Reciprocity in a two-part dictator game

Cited by 198 publications

References 37 publications

Are Religious Individuals More Generous, Trusting, and Cooperative? An Experimental Test of the Effect of Religion on Prosociality

Are Religious Individuals More Generous, Trusting, and Cooperative? An Experimental Test of the Effect of Religion on Prosociality

The good, the bad, and the talented: Entrepreneurial talent and selfish behavior

Does Death Make Us All Equal? Conformism and Status-Seeking Under Mortality Salience

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