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View article: Social preferences under the shadow of the future
Social preferences under the shadow of the future Open
Social interactions frequently take place under the shadow of the future. Previous literature explains cooperation in indefinitely repeated prisoner’s dilemma as driven predominantly by self-interested strategic considerations. This paper …
View article: Natural or organic? How framing impacts choices of sustainable food and wine products
Natural or organic? How framing impacts choices of sustainable food and wine products Open
Purpose The paper investigates the choice preferences of Gen Z individuals between products labelled as “organic” versus products labelled as “natural”. While the former category guarantees production standards set by EU legislation, no co…
View article: On the psychology of the relation between optimism and risk taking
On the psychology of the relation between optimism and risk taking Open
In this paper, we provide an explanation for why risk taking is related to optimism. Using a laboratory experiment, we show that the degree of optimism predicts whether people tend to focus on the positive or negative outcomes of risky dec…
View article: A note on salience of own preferences and the consensus effect
A note on salience of own preferences and the consensus effect Open
In this paper, we hypothesize that the strength of the consensus effect, i.e., the tendency for people to overweight the prevalence of their own values and preferences when forming beliefs about others’ values and preferences, depends on t…
View article: Data for: Promoting Financial Literacy among the Elderly
Data for: Promoting Financial Literacy among the Elderly Open
Stata code and data for the manuscript titled "Promoting Financial Literacy among the Elderly: Consequences on Confidence". We conduct an impact evaluation of a two-hour lecture targeting the elderly population. We find that the interventi…
View article: Fair allocation of scarce medical resources in the time of COVID-19: what do people think?
Fair allocation of scarce medical resources in the time of COVID-19: what do people think? Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed an enormous burden on health systems, and guidelines have been developed to help healthcare practitioners when resource shortage imposes the choice on who to treat. However, little is known on the public pe…
View article: Bonus versus penalty: How robust are the effects of contract framing?
Bonus versus penalty: How robust are the effects of contract framing? Open
We study the relative effectiveness of contracts that are framed either in terms of bonuses or penalties. In one set of treatments, subjects know at the time of effort provision whether they have achieved the bonus/avoided the penalty. In …
View article: Data from: Reciprocity and the tragedies of maintaining and providing the commons
Data from: Reciprocity and the tragedies of maintaining and providing the commons Open
Social cooperation often requires collectively beneficial but individually costly restraint to maintain a public good, or it needs costly generosity to create one. Status quo effects predict that maintaining a public good is easier than pr…
View article: Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion Open
We investigate whether there is an association between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion, two phenomena that we conjecture share common psychological characteristics despite having been studied largely separately in the previou…
View article: Eliciting and measuring betrayal aversion using the BDM mechanism
Eliciting and measuring betrayal aversion using the BDM mechanism Open
Betrayal aversion has been operationalized as the evidence that subjects demand a higher risk premium to take social risks compared to natural risks. This evidence has been first shown by Bohnet and Zeckhauser (J Econ Behav 98:294–310, 200…
View article: On the elicitation and measurement of betrayal aversion
On the elicitation and measurement of betrayal aversion Open
Betrayal aversion has been operationalized as the evidence that subjects demand a higher risk premium to take social risks compared to natural risks. This evidence has been first shown by Bohnet and Zeckhauser (2004) using an adaptation of…