Lab experiments are a major source of knowledge in the social sciences

A Falk, JJ Heckman - science, 2009 - science.org
Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in
the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory …

Reciprocity, culture and human cooperation: previous insights and a new cross-cultural experiment

S Gächter, B Herrmann - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Understanding the proximate and ultimate sources of human cooperation is a fundamental
issue in all behavioural sciences. In this paper, we review the experimental evidence on …

The importance of emotions for the effectiveness of social punishment

A Hopfensitz, E Reuben - The Economic Journal, 2009 - academic.oup.com
This article experimentally explores how the enforcement of cooperative behaviour in a
social dilemma is facilitated through institutional as well as emotional mechanisms. Recent …

Do humans really punish altruistically? A closer look

EJ Pedersen, R Kurzban… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Some researchers have proposed that natural selection has given rise in humans to one or
more adaptations for altruistically punishing on behalf of other individuals who have been …

In search of informed discretion: An experimental investigation of fairness and trust reciprocity

VS Maas, M Van Rinsum… - The Accounting Review, 2012 - publications.aaahq.org
This paper investigates managerial discretion in compensation decisions in a team setting,
in which a measure of the team's aggregate performance is readily available from the …

The impact of knowledge hiding on targets' knowledge sharing with perpetrators

M Lin, Y Li, L Miao - Tourism Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Using a sequential mixed-methods approach, this study explored how knowledge hiding
(KH) targets react to perpetrators in the hospitality industry. Study 1 entailed in-depth …

Frustration, aggression, and anger in leader-follower games

P Battigalli, M Dufwenberg, A Smith - Games and Economic Behavior, 2019 - Elsevier
Frustration, anger, and blame have important consequences for economic and social
behavior, concerning for example monopoly pricing, contracting, bargaining, violence, and …

Coupling and decoupling of unfairness and anger in ultimatum bargaining

J Srivastava, F Espinoza… - Journal of Behavioral …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Although previous research has demonstrated the importance of emotions in ultimatum
bargaining, this research provides a more direct, convergent test of the role of anger in …

An experimental investigation of why individuals conform

B Zafar - European Economic Review, 2011 - Elsevier
Social interdependence is believed to play an important role in individual choice behavior. I
first outline a simple model constructed on the premise that people are motivated by their …

Vendettas

F Bolle, JHW Tan, DJ Zizzo - American Economic Journal …, 2014 - aeaweb.org
Vendettas occur in many real-world settings where rivals compete for a prize, eg, winning a
competitive promotion or retaining a job, by engaging in aggressive, retaliatory behavior. We …