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View article: Normative Acceptance of Power Abuse
Normative Acceptance of Power Abuse Open
While extensive research has shown how power corrupts those who wield it, less is known about its effects on the powerless. Victims of power abuse may either become dissatisfied with such norm violations by those in power or normalize such…
View article: Moneyball: Studying Effects of Ostracism on Both Targets and Voluntary Sources
Moneyball: Studying Effects of Ostracism on Both Targets and Voluntary Sources Open
This study develops and employs a novel paradigm called “Moneyball” – a modification of the “Cyberball” framework with monetary incentives – to simultaneously examine the consequences of ostracism on both targets and sources in an interact…
View article: War Causes Religiosity: Gravestone Evidence from the Vietnam Draft Lottery
War Causes Religiosity: Gravestone Evidence from the Vietnam Draft Lottery Open
Does war make people more religious? Answers to this classic question are dominated by the lack of causality. We exploit the Vietnam Draft Lottery -- a natural experiment that drafted male U.S. citizens into military service during the Vie…
View article: Abuse of power
Abuse of power Open
Punishment institutions are a major guarantor of prosocial behavior. At the same time, their asymmetrical power structure may lead to antisocial behavior itself. We investigate power abuse, understood as the use of power for personal gain,…
View article: Competition between friends and foes
Competition between friends and foes Open
While social preferences have been shown to be an important predictor in economic decision-making, they have been largely ignored in describing auction behavior. We build on theoretical models of spiteful bidding to test experimentally whe…
View article: The cost of a divided America: an experimental study into destructive behavior
The cost of a divided America: an experimental study into destructive behavior Open
Does political polarization lead to dysfunctional behavior? To study this question, we investigate the attitudes of supporters of Donald Trump and of Hillary Clinton towards each other and how these attitudes affect spiteful behavior. We f…
View article: Spite vs. risk: explaining overbidding
Spite vs. risk: explaining overbidding Open
In this paper we use an experiment to compare a theory of risk aversion and a theory of spite as an explanation for overbidding in auctions. As a workhorse we use the second-price all-pay and the first-price winner-pay auction. Both risk a…
View article: Ignorance Is Bliss, But for Whom? The Persistent Effect of Good Will on Cooperation
Ignorance Is Bliss, But for Whom? The Persistent Effect of Good Will on Cooperation Open
Who benefits from the ignorance of others? We address this question from the point of view of a policy maker who can induce some ignorance into a system of agents competing for resources. Evolutionary game theory shows that when unconditio…