Experimental Research

This section introduces the most frequent experimental scenarios used to investigate aspects of other-regarding behavior in laboratory conditions. Each subsection describes a game, its common implementation along with the procedures, discussion of experimental results based on the existing literature, and offers possible explanations and parallelism to real-life situations. Where available, we also suggest software for running the particular scenario as a class experiment, otherwise, we refer to manual setups.

• Centipede Game
• Dictator Game
  • Dictator Controls for Investment Game
  • Dictator Controls for Moonlighting Game
  • Dictator Controls for Punishment-MUG Game
  • Dictator Controls for Trust Game
  • Dictator Control for Ultimatum Game
• Investment game
  • Advanced Discussion on Separating Trust and Reciprocity from Other-Regarding Preferences in the Investment Game
• Moonlighting Game
  • Advanced Discussion on Separating Various Motives of Behavior in the Moonlighting Game
• Prisoner's Dilemma
• Punishment (Mini-Ultimatum) Game
• Trust Game
• Ultimatum Game
• Wage-Effort Game

Summaries of Experimental Research Articles

• Joyce Berg, John Dickhaut, and Kevin McCabe (GEB'95): Trust, Reciprocity, and Social History.
• Elizabeth Hoffman, Kevin McCabe, and Vernon Smith (AER'96): Social Distance and Other-Regarding Behavior in Dictator Games.
• James C. Cox (GEB'04): How to Identify Trust and Reciprocity.