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1“...z-Tree (Zurich Toolbox for Ready-made Economic Experiments) is a software for developing and conducting economic experiments. The software is stable and allows...”
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3“...One lingering puzzle is why voluntary contributions to public goods decline over time in experimental and real-world settings. We show that the decline of...”
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4by Baumgartner, Thomas Heinrichs, Markus Vonlanthen, Aline Fischbacher, Urs Fehr, Ernst Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (2008)“...Trust and betrayal of trust are ubiquitous in human societies. Recent behavioral evidence shows that the neuropeptide oxytocin increases trust among humans,...”
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5“...Some of the most fundamental questions concerning our evolutionary origins, our social relations, and the organization of society are centred around issues of...”
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6“...People are reciprocal if they reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. In this paper we present a formal theory of reciprocity. It takes into account that...”
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7“...Social norms and the associated altruistic behaviours are decisive for the evolution of human cooperation and the maintenance of social order, and they affect...”
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8“...We study how reciprocity affects the extent to which a chair can exploit her control over an agenda if a committee votes sequentially on a known series of...”
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9by Bernadette von Dawans Urs Fischbacher Clemens Kirschbaum Ernst Fehr Markus Heinrichs Published in Psychological science (01.06.2012)“...Psychosocial stress precipitates a wide spectrum of diseases with major public-health significance. The fight-or-flight response is generally regarded as the...”
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10“...To fully understand the motives for delegating a decision right, it is important to study responsibility attributions for outcomes of delegated decisions. We...”
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11by Urs Fischbacher Gerson Hoffmann Simeon Schudy Published in The Review of financial studies (01.06.2017)“...We investigate whether automatic selling devices causally reduce investors' disposition effect (DE) in a laboratory experiment. Investors can actively buy and...”
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13by Spitzer, Manfred Fischbacher, Urs Herrnberger, Bärbel Grön, Georg Fehr, Ernst Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (2007)“...All known human societies establish social order by punishing violators of social norms. However, little is known about how the brain processes the punishment...”
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14“...Recently developed models of fairness can explain a wide variety of seemingly contradictory facts. One of the most controversial and yet unresolved issues in...”
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15by Fischbacher, Urs Zak, Paul J Heinrichs, Markus Kosfeld, Michael Fehr, Ernst Published in Nature (02.06.2005)“...Trust pervades human societies. Trust is indispensable in friendship, love, families and organizations, and plays a key role in economic exchange and politics...”
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16“...An apology is a strong and cheap device to restore social or economic relationships that have been disturbed. In a laboratory experiment in which apologies...”
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17by Baumgartner, Thomas Fischbacher, Urs Feierabend, Anja Lutz, Kai Fehr, Ernst Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (2009)“...Promises are one of the oldest human-specific psychological mechanisms fostering cooperation and trust. Here, we study the neural underpinnings of promise...”
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18by Schulz, Jonathan F Fischbacher, Urs Thöni, Christian Utikal, Verena Published in Journal of economic psychology (01.04.2014)“...► We investigate the effect of cognitive load on Dictator game giving. ► The cognitive load is intended to enhance the influence of affect on behavior. ►...”
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19by Bernhard, Helen Fehr, Ernst Fischbacher, Urs Published in The American economic review (01.05.2006)
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20“...This paper investigates the driving forces behind informal sanctions in cooperation games and the extent to which theories of fairness and reciprocity capture...”