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Daniel Houser

Professor of Economics, George Mason University
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A functional imaging study of cooperation in two-person reciprocal exchange

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K McCabe, D Houser, L Ryan… - Proceedings of the …, 2001 - National Acad Sciences
Abstract Cooperation between individuals requires the ability to infer each other's mental
states to form shared expectations over mutual gains and make cooperative choices that
realize these gains. From evidence that the ability for mental state attribution involves the ...
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Reputation in auctions: Theory, and evidence from eBay

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D Houser… - Journal of Economics & Management …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
1. We thank Sam Allen for research assistance with the data. Andrew Ching and Diego
Moreno provided useful thoughts on early drafts of this paper. We are grateful to two
anonymous referees and the coeditor for helpful comments.
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Emotion expression in human punishment behavior

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E Xiao… - … of the National Academy of Sciences of …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
Abstract Evolutionary theory reveals that punishment is effective in promoting cooperation
and maintaining social norms. Although it is accepted that emotions are connected to
punishment decisions, there remains substantial debate over why humans use costly ...
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Revisiting kindness and confusion in public goods experiments

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D Houser… - The American Economic Review, 2002 - JSTOR
There has been substantial recent interest in determining why there is cooperation in public
goods experiments even in environments that provide all subjects with the incentive to free
ride (see eg, John O. Ledyard, 1995). Theories used to explain such cooperation ...
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[PDF] Reputation in auctions: Theory and evidence from eBay

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D Houser… - University of Arizona (Tucson), …, 2000 - mason.gmu.edu
Abstract Employing a procedure suggested by a simple theoretical model of auctions in
which bidders and sellers have observable and heterogenous reputations for default, we
examine the effect of reputation on price in a data set drawn from the online auction site ...
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Disposition, history and contributions in public goods experiments

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A Gunnthorsdottir, D Houser… - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2007 - Elsevier
Novel voluntary contribution mechanism experiments are used to investigate how
individuals' experience (history) and cooperative disposition and interact. We find that a
subject's initial public contribution is a useful measure of cooperative disposition. History ...
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Behavior in a dynamic decision problem: An analysis of experimental evidence using a Bayesian type classification algorithm

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D Houser, M Keane… - Econometrica, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Different people may use different strategies, or decision rules, when solving complex
decision problems. We provide a new Bayesian procedure for drawing inferences about the
nature and number of decision rules present in a population, and use it to analyze the ...
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Individual differences in cooperation in a circular public goods game

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R Kurzban… - European Journal of Personality, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Research using the public goods game to examine behaviour in the context of
social dilemmas has repeatedly shown substantial individual differences in patterns of
contributions to the public good. We present here a new method specifically designed to ...
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When punishment fails: Research on sanctions, intentions and non-cooperation

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D Houser, E Xiao, K McCabe… - Games and Economic Behavior, 2008 - Elsevier
People can become less cooperative when threatened with sanctions, and previous
research suggests both “intentions” and incentives underlie this effect. We report data from
an experiment aimed at determining the relative importance of intentions and incentives in ...
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Anxiety impairs decision-making: Psychophysiological evidence from an Iowa Gambling Task

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AC Miu, RM Heilman… - Biological psychology, 2008 - Elsevier
Using the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) and psychophysiological correlates of emotional
responses (ie, heart rate and skin conductance), we investigate the effects of trait anxiety
(TA) on decision-making. We find that high TA is associated with both impaired decision- ...
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Long-memoried processes, unit roots, and causal inference in political science

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J Freeman, D Houser, PM Kellstedt… - American Journal of …, 1998 - JSTOR
Long-Memoried Processes, Unit Roots, and Causal Inference in Political Science John
Freeman, University of Minnesota Daniel Houser, University of Minnesota Paul M. Kellstedt, Brown
University John T. Williams, Indiana University Theory: It has been argued that because ...
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Selling favors in the lab: Experiments on campaign finance reform

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D Houser… - Public Choice, 2008 - Springer
Abstract Campaign advertising can provide benefits to constituencies when used to fund the
distribution of useful information, but voters can be harmed if candidates finance such
advertising by trading policy favors to special interests in exchange for contributions. We ...
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[PDF] How do behavioral assumptions affect structural inference? Evidence from a laboratory experiment

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D Houser… - Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2004 - ASA
We use laboratory experiments to investigate the effect that assuming rational expectations
has on structural inference in a dynamic discrete decision problem. Our design induces
preferences up to the subjective rate of time preference, leaving unrestricted both this ...
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Neural responses to sanction threats in two-party economic exchange

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J Li, E Xiao, D Houser… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Abstract Sanctions are used ubiquitously to enforce obedience to social norms. However,
recent field studies and laboratory experiments have demonstrated that cooperation is
sometimes reduced when incentives meant to promote prosocial decisions are added to ...
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A Computable Equilibrium Model for the Study of Political Economy

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JR Freeman… - American Journal of Political Science, 1998 - JSTOR
Theory: The need for the development and use of a concept of joint, political-economic
equilibrium is increasingly recognized by students of democracy and markets. Yet, to date,
no adequate theoretical and methodological synthesis of this kind has been produced. ...
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Emotion regulation and decision making under risk and uncertainty.

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RM Heilman, LG Crişan, D Houser, M Miclea… - Emotion, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract 1. It is well established that emotion plays a key role in human social and economic
decision making. The recent literature on emotion regulation (ER), however, highlights that
humans typically make efforts to control emotion experiences. This leaves open the ...
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Distinguishing trust from risk: An anatomy of the investment game

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D Houser, D Schunk… - Journal of economic behavior & …, 2010 - Elsevier
The role of trust in promoting economic activity and societal development has received
considerable academic attention by social scientists. A popular way to measure trust at the
individual level is the so-called “investment game”(Berg et al., 1995). It has been widely ...
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[PDF] Emotion expression and fairness in economic exchange

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E Xiao… - University of Pennsylvania, 2007 - socionet.org
Abstract: Research in economics and psychology has established that informal sanctions,
particularly expressions of negative emotion, can enforce fair economic exchange. However,
scholars are only beginning to understand the reasons informal sanctions affect economic ...
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Avoiding the sharp tongue: Anticipated written messages promote fair economic exchange

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E Xiao… - Journal of Economic Psychology, 2009 - Elsevier
Research in economics and psychology has established that informal non-monetary
sanctions, particularly expressions of negative emotion or disapproval, can enforce fair
economic exchange. Scholars, however, are only beginning to understand the reasons ...
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[PDF] Conditional cooperation and group dynamics: Experimental evidence from a sequential public goods game

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D Houser… - … Center for Economic Science, Greg Mason …, 2003 - 129.3.20.41
Abstract: We design a novel sequential public goods experiment to study reciprocity, or
conditional cooperation. In contrast to the standard simultaneous contribution game, our
sequential design provides direct evidence on how subjects condition their own ...
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Classification of natural language messages using a coordination game

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D Houser… - Experimental Economics, 2011 - Springer
Abstract The role of natural language communication in economic exchange has been the
focus of substantial experimental analysis. Recently, scholars have taken the important step
of investigating whether certain types of communication (eg, promises) might affect ...
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Simulation based inference for dynamic multinomial choice models

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J Geweke, D Houser… - A companion to theoretical …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last decade econometric inference based on simulation techniques has become
increasingly common, particularly for latent variable models. The reason is that such models
often generate econometric objective functions that embed high-order integrals, and ...
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Economic consequences of political approval management in comparative perspective

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D Houser… - Journal of Comparative Economics, 2001 - Elsevier
We develop a dynamic, stochastic, computable general equilibrium model of political
approval management and fiscal policy in order to analyze how political approval
management affects United States' Presidential and United Kingdom's parliamentary ...
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Trust games measure trust

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D Houser, D Schunk… - 2006 - epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de
Abstract The relationship between trust and risk is a topic of enduring interest. Although
there are substantial differences between the ideas the terms express, many researchers
from different disciplines have pointed out that these two concepts become very closely ...
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Bayesian analysis of a dynamic stochastic model of labor supply and saving

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D Houser - Journal of econometrics, 2003 - Elsevier
This paper empirically implements a dynamic, stochastic model of life-cycle labor supply and
human capital investment. The model allows agents to be forward looking. But, in contrast to
prior literature in this area, it does not require that expectations be formed “rationally”. By ...
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Identifying individual differences: An algorithm with application to Phineas Gage

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D Houser, A Bechara, M Keane, K McCabe… - Games and Economic …, 2005 - Elsevier
In many research contexts it is useful to group experimental subjects into behavioral “types.”
Usually, this is done by pre-specifying a set of candidate decision-making heuristics and
assigning each subject to a heuristic in that set. Such approaches might perform poorly ...
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Competing demands of prosociality and equity in monkeys

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SF Brosnan, D Houser, K Leimgruber… - Evolution and Human …, 2010 - Elsevier
Prosocial decisions may lead to unequal payoffs among group members. Although an
aversion to inequity has been found in empirical studies of both human and nonhuman
primates, the contexts previously studied typically do not involve a trade-off between ...
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Punish in public

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E Xiao… - Journal of Public Economics, 2011 - Elsevier
We report data from public goods games showing that privately-implemented punishment
reduces cooperation in relation to a baseline treatment without punishment. When that same
incentive is implemented publicly, however, cooperation is sustained at significantly ...
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[PDF] Unit Roots and Causal Inference in Political Science

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J Freeman, D Houser, P Kellstedt… - Meeting of the Political …, 1996 - polmeth.wustl.edu
In the 1980s political scientists were introduced to vector autoregression (Sims, 1980). In the
years that followed, they used this method to evaluate competing theories (Goldstein and
Freeman, 1990, 199l; Freeman and Alt, 1994; Williams, 1990) and to test the validity of the ...
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Social environments with competitive pressure: Gender effects in the decisions of German schoolchildren

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D Houser… - Journal of Economic Psychology, 2009 - Elsevier
Systematic differences in decision making between genders have been discovered in both
competitive and pro-social environments. These contexts, however, have been previously
studied in isolation while in naturally occurring settings pro-social and competitive ...
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Fairness and Cheating

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D Houser, S Vetter… - 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We present evidence from a laboratory experiment showing that individuals who
believe they were treated unfairly in an interaction with another person are more likely to
cheat in a subsequent unrelated game. Specifically, subjects first participated in a dictator ...
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Hard and soft closes: a field experiment on auction closing rules

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D Houser… - Experimental Business Research, 2005 - Springer
Late bidding in online auctions has attracted substantial theoretical and empirical attention.
This paper reports the results of a controlled field experiment on late bidding behavior. Pairs
of $50 gift certificates were auctioned simultaneously on Yahoo! Auctions, using a ...
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[PDF] Excluding free-riders improves reciprocity and promotes the private provision of public goods

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A Gunnthorsdottir, D Houser, K McCabe… - 2000 - Citeseer
It is well known that property rights can privatize incentives for the provision of goods that
provide public benefits. Unfortunately, it is often infeasible to implement a property rights
system which truly privatizes incentives by making benefits proportional to investments. 1 ...
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Anxiety and decision-making: Toward a neuroeconomics perspective

AC Miu, M Miclea… - Neuroeconomics (Advances in …, 2008 - emeraldinsight.com
Purpose – This chapter focuses on individual differences in anxiety, by reviewing its
neurobiology, cognitive effects, with an emphasis on decision-making, and recent developments
in neuroeconomics. ... Methodology – A review and discussion of anxiety and decision- ...
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[PDF] Public Choice Issues in International Collective Action: Global Warming Regulation

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JJ Bial, D Houser… - Draft dated June, 2001 - Citeseer
We have benefited from comments by Doug Allen, Robert Fischman, Ron Johnson, Thomas
Lyon, John McGinnis, Gordon Tullock, and participants at the Conference of the International
Association for the Study of Common Property, Bloomington, June 2000 and at the ...
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Getting it right the first time: Belief elicitation with novice participants

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L Hao… - GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 10-12, 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: The auction design literature makes clear that theoretically equivalent mechanisms
can perform very differently in practice. Though of equal importance, much less is known
about the empirical performance of theoretically equivalent mechanisms for belief ...
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[CITATION] Understanding context effects

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D Houser… - Journal of economic behavior & …, 2010 - econpapers.repec.org
By Daniel Houser and Erte Xiao; Understanding context effects.
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[PDF] Checking out temptation: A natural experiment with purchases at the grocery register

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D Houser, DH Reiley… - … manuscript, University of …, 2008 - msk.socionet.ru
Abstract: A long literature in psychology, as well as a more recent theory literature in
economics, suggests that prolonged exposure to a tempting stimulus can eventually lead
people to―succumb‖ to that temptation. Here we develop a model for decision under ...
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[BOOK] Experimental neuroeconomics and non-cooperative games

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D Houser… - 2009 - books.google.com
Embodied brain activity leads to emergent computations that determine individual decisions.
In turn, individual decisions, in the form of messages sent to an institution, lead to emergent
computations that determine group-level outcomes. Computations can be understood in ...
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[PDF] Combining brain and behavioral data to improve econometric policy analysis

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D Houser, D Schunk… - Analyse & Kritik, 2007 - analyse-und-kritik.net
Abstract: For an economist, ultimate goals of neuroeconomic research include improving
economic policy analysis. One path toward this goal is to use neuroeconomic data to
advance economic theory, and productive efforts have been made towards that end. ...
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[PDF] Bayesian analysis of a dynamic, stochastic model of labor supply and saving

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D Houser - Unpublished manuscript, University of Arizona, 1998 - econ.arizona.edu
A substantial amount of recent empirical research has analyzed models of life-cycle labor
supply that include human capital. Such research has typically taken dogmatic stands on the
way people form expectations. In principle, however, inferences about human capital's ...
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[PDF] Cultural group selection, co evolutionary processes and large-scale cooperation (by Joseph Henrich)

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D Houser, K McCabe… - Journal of economic behavior & …, 2005 - Citeseer
Before addressing Joseph Henrich's evolutionary explanation for altruism, it is important to ask
whether the existing evidence taken in its entirety actually suggests that preferences are
non-selfish in the standard game-theoretic (myopic) sense. Our own research corrobo- ...
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Inequality-seeking punishment

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D Houser… - Economics Letters, 2010 - Elsevier
We report data from a laboratory experiment using dictator games to inform individual
preferences over punishment outcomes. We find that many people punish after receiving
disadvantageous outcomes, and those who do systematically prefer to use punishment to ...
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[CITATION] Fairness, competition and gender: Evidence from German schoolchildren

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[CITATION] Temptation, Commitment, and Self-control in the Laboratory

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[PDF] Behavior in a dynamic decision problem: Evidence from the Laboratory

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D Houser, M Keane, K McCabe… - Manuscript, University of …, 2001 - econ.arizona.edu
The question “how do people behave when placed in environments where optimal decision
making would require solution of complex optimization problems?” is of fundamental
importance to economic analysis. Predictions of individual and market behavior can differ ...
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Three parts natural, seven parts man-made: Bayesian analysis of China's Great Leap Forward demographic disaster

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D Houser, B Sands… - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2009 - Elsevier
The millions of deaths that occurred during China's great famine of 1959–1961 were the
result of one of the world's greatest civil demographic disasters. Two primary hypotheses
have been advanced to explain the famine. One is that China experienced three ...
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[CITATION] Reputation in Auctions: Theory and Evidence from eBay “, forthcoming in Journal of Economics and Management Strategy

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The causal effect of market participation on trust: An experimental investigation using randomized control

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O Al-Ubaydli, D Houser, J Nye, M Paganelli… - 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: In randomized control laboratory experiments, we find that those primed to think
about markets exhibit more trusting behavior. We randomly and unconsciously prime
experimental participants to think about markets and trade. We then ask them to play a ...
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[PDF] Revisiting confusion in public goods experiments

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D Houser, R Kurzban, D Porter… - … manuscript, University of …, 2000 - Citeseer
ABSTRACT Theories put forth to explain cooperation in public goods experiments usually
assume either that subjects cooperate because they do not understand the game's
incentives or that cooperation stems from social motives such as altruism and reciprocity. ...
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Temptation and productivity: A field experiment with children

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A Bucciol, D Houser… - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2011 - Elsevier
Substantial evidence from psychology suggests that resisting temptation (exercising self-
control) in one domain subsequently reduces one's capacity to regulate behavior in other
domains. A reason is that people have limited self-regulatory resources, and self- ...
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[CITATION] A Minimal Property Right System for the Sustainable Provision of Public Good

H Ameden, A Gunnthorsdottir, D Houser… - Unpublished paper. University …, 1998
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6. Measuring trust and trustworthiness

J Leland, D Houser… - Trust and entrepreneurship: a …, 2005 - books.google.com
Social scientists have long held the view that trust has a significant influence on the
economic prosperity of nations. But researchers have only recently started to find empirical
support for this belief. Up to now this empirical research has relied on measures of trust ...
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[BOOK] Temptation and Commitment in the Laboratory

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D Houser… - 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Temptation and self-control in intertemporal choice environments are receiving
increasing attention in the theoretical economics literature. Nevertheless, there remains a
scarcity of empirical evidence from controlled environments informing behavior under ...
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[PDF] A Note on Norms in Experimental Economics

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D Houser - Eastern Economic Journal, 2010 - mason.gmu.edu
Many prominent recent contributions to economic theory [Charness and Dufwenberg, 2006;
Laibson, 1997; Camerer, 2003] are motivated by the findings of economics experiments, and
are then advanced by further experimentation [Xiao and Houser, 2005; Houser and ...
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Leadership: Who Matters

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D Houser, D Levy, K Padgitt, S Peart… - 2007 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Previous research provides compelling evidence that human leaders are sufficient
for efficiency-enhancing leadership effects on cooperation in groups, yet little is known
regarding the contexts in which human leadership is necessary in this regard. For ...
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What you don't know won't hurt you: A laboratory analysis of betrayal aversion

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JA Aimone… - Experimental Economics, 2008 - Springer
Abstract Recent research argues “betrayal aversion” leads many people to avoid risk more
when a person, rather than nature, determines the outcome of uncertainty. However, past
studies indicate that factors unrelated to betrayal aversion, such as loss aversion, could ...
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Turned on or turned out? Campaign advertising, information and voting

D Houser, R Morton… - European Journal of Political Economy, 2011 - Elsevier
We present results from laboratory experimental elections in which voter information is
endogenously provided by candidates and voting is voluntary. We also compare
advertisements that are costless to voters with those that reduce voter payoffs. We find that ...
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Willpower in children and adults: a survey of results and economic implications

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A Bucciol, D Houser… - International Review of Economics, 2010 - Springer
Abstract This paper reviews key contributions to the psychology and economics literature on
willpower. Understanding how willpower develops can shed important light on time-
inconsistent economic decision making, a topic that has received substantial attention ...
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[BOOK] Public Implementation Eliminates Detrimental Effects of Punishment on Human Cooperation

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E Xiao… - 2006 - econstor.eu
Development of human societies requires cooperation among unrelated individuals and
obedience to social norms. Although punishment is widely agreed to be potentially useful in
fostering cooperation, many recent results in psychology and economics highlight ...
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[CITATION] Reputation in auctions: Theory and evidence from ebay, 2000

D Houser… - University of Arizona Working Paper
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Leadership, cheap talk and< i> really</i> cheap talk

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DM Levy, K Padgitt, SJ Peart, D Houser… - Journal of Economic …, 2011 - Elsevier
Previous research offers compelling evidence that leaders suffice to effect efficiency-
enhancements on cooperation, yet the source of this effect remains unclear. To investigate
whether leadership effects can be attributed exclusively to the common information that ...
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[CITATION] Revisiting Kindness and Confusion in Public Goods Experiments

R Kurzban… - American Economic Review, 2005
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[PDF] Status and altruism in children

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K Häger, D Houser… - 2008 - uni-graz.at
Abstract: Status seeking and altruism have been studied extensively in adults. Here, we
report data from a field experiment studying status seeking and altruistic behavior in
children. We study a sample of German school children aged seven to ten in a natural ...
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[PDF] Temptation at work: a field experiment on willpower and productivity

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A Bucciol, D Houser… - Working Papers, 2009 - repec.ices-gmu.org
Temptations are a largely unavoidable part of life. Resisting them is usually seen as a
virtuous behavior. Recent research in social psychology, however, suggests that using
willpower to delay gratification can detrimentally impact performance on immediately ...
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Social Approval, Competition, and Cooperation

X Pan… - 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Holländer (1990) argued that when non-monetary social approval from peers is
sufficiently valuable, it works to promote cooperation. Holländer, however, did not define the
characteristics of environments in which high valued approval is likely to occur. This paper ...
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Belief elicitation in the presence of naïve respondents: An experimental study

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L Hao… - Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2011 - Springer
Abstract It is often of interest to elicit beliefs from populations that may include naïve
participants. Unfortunately, elicitation mechanisms are typically assessed by assuming
optimal responses to incentives. Using laboratory experiments with a population that ...
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Turned Off or Turned Out? Campaign Advertising, Information, and Voting

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D Houser, R Morton… - 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We present results from laboratory experimental elections in which voter
information is endogenously provided by candidates and voting is voluntary. We also
compare advertisements that are costless to voters with those that reduce voter payoffs. ...
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Punish in public

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E Xiao… - 2006 - repository.cmu.edu
Convergent evidence for detrimental effects of punishment on cooperation has been
obtained in a wide variety of environments, ranging from American students facing
punishment in laboratory experiments, to Israeli parents facing fines for arriving late to ...
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Dynamic decision makers, classification of types of

D Houser - Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Suppose a general orders his troops into battle against an approaching enemy and valiantly
leads the charge himself. One of his soldiers takes advantage of the momentary confusion
surrounding the order by slipping away from the battlefield to an area of relative safety. ...
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Honest lies

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L Hao… - Working Papers, 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We report data from a two-stage prediction game, where the accuracy of
predictions (in the first stage) regarding die roll outcomes (in the second stage) is rewarded
using a proper scoring rule. Thus, given the opportunity to self-report the die roll outcomes ...
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[BOOK] Time preference and decision rules in a price search experiment

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D Houser… - 2000 - Citeseer
Abstract: Structural econometric methods that assume agents have rational expectations are
often criticized. Yet, little is known about the relative costs and benefits of adopting
alternative empirical strategies. This paper compares three procedures for inference about ...
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[PDF] Identifying Individual Differences: An Algorithm WITH Application TO Phineas Gage

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D Houser, A Bechara… - Games and …, 2004 - research.economics.unsw.edu.au
Abstract: In many research contexts it is necessary to group experimental subjects into
behavioral “types.” Usually, this is done by pre-specifying a set of candidate decisionmaking
heuristics and then assigning each subject to the heuristic that best describes his/her ...
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[PDF] Does deceptive advertising reduce turnout? Theory and laboratory evidence

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D Houser, S Ludwig… - 2009 - socialpolitik.ovgu.de
Abstract We consider two-candidate elections in which voters are uncertain about
candidates' qualities and candidates can inform voters of their quality by sending
advertisements. We compare campaigns where advertising must be true to campaigns ...
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Does deceptive advertising reduce political participation? Theory and evidence

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D Houser, S Ludwig… - 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We examine the effect of deceptive advertising on voting decisions in elections. We
model two-candidate elections in which 1) voters are uncertain about candidates' attributes;
and 2) candidates can inform voters of their attributes by sending advertisements. We ...
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[PDF] QUANTITATIVE RESOURCE ALLOCATION MECHANISMS: ALLOCATION MECHANISMS: EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSES

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DE Houser, SRPDS Rassenti, D Porter… - 2010 - dtic.mil
Page 1. QUANTITATIVE RESOURCE ALLOCATION MECHANISMS: ALLOCATION MECHANISMS:
EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSES Daniel E. Houser, Ph.D. dhouser@gmu.edu; 703.993.4856 (office);
703.625.5637 (cell) ICES, MSN 1B2, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA. 22030 ...
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[CITATION] A Study of projects initiated with public law 89-10 Title I funds in Missouri that were but are not now supported by federal funds

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Leverage and Asset Prices: An Experiment

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M Cipriani, A Fostel… - 2012 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This is the first paper to test the asset pricing implication of leverage in a laboratory.
We show that as theory predicts, leverage increases asset prices: when an asset can be
used as collateral (ie, when the asset can be bought on margin), its price goes up. This ...
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High Stakes Behavior with Low Payoffs: Inducing Preferences with Holt-Laury Gambles

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J Dickhaut, D Houser, JA Aimone, D Tila… - Working …, 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: A continuing goal of experiments is to understand risky decisions when the
decisions are important. Often a decision's importance relates to the magnitude of the
associated monetary stake. Khaneman and Tversky (1979) argue that risky decisions in ...
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[PDF] Receipt By OIC

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DS Houser, SA Morris, HD Webb, AIG Insurance… - Policy - carneylaw.com
Page 1. INSURER FAIR CONDUCT NOTICE 6/13/2008 - 7/25/2008 Sorted by Insurer Name
Date Of Receipt By OIC Postmark Date INS CO Complainant/ Insured Complainant Attorney Line
of Ins RCW/WAC Unreasonable Denial of Claim 7/23/2008 7/21/2008 ...
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How do behavioral assumptions affect structural inference? Evidence from a laboratory experiment

J Winter… - 2004 - en.scientificcommons.org
Abstract We use a laboratory experiment to investigate the effect that assuming rational
expectations has on structural inference on a dynamic discrete choice decision problem. Our
experimental design induces preferences up to each subject's subjective rates of time ...
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[PDF] Harnessing the Benefits of Betrayal Aversion

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JA Aimone… - 2012 - repec.ices-gmu.org
Abstract: Recent research suggests that while there are negative effects of betrayal aversion,
that the presence of betrayal-averse agents is beneficial in reducing trustees' willingness to
betray trust. If true, then many common knowledge institutions may have adopted ...
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[CITATION] PUBLIC CHOICE ISSUES IN COLLECTIVE ACTION: CONSTITUENT GROUP PRESSURES AND INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL WARMING REGULATION

JR Bial, D Houser… - 2000
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[PDF] An experimental investigation of repeated auctions and secondary market trading in emissions markets with bankable allowances

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M Olson, K Hoffman… - wwwsrv1tmp.mitre.org
We report data from laboratory emissions allowance markets in which allowances do not
expire and can be banked between compliance periods. These periods consist of a sealed
bid auction, trading, and then compliance. The markets consist of multiple sequential ...
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[PDF] Time preference and heuristics in a price search experiment

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D Houser… - 2001 - econ.yale.edu
Abstract: Structural econometric methods that assume agents have rational expectations are
often criticized. Yet, little is known about the relative costs and benefits of adopting
alternative empirical strategies. This paper compares three procedures for inference about ...
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Public Choice Issues in Collective Action: Global Warming Treaty Negotiation and Compliance

JR Bial, D Houser… - 2000 - en.scientificcommons.org
Abstract" There is a large and growing body of literature on scientific issues and regulatory
instruments, such as emissions permits, in international efforts to control greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions. The underlying collective action issues have received much less ...
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Social Approval, Competition and Cooperation

D Houser - Working Papers, 2011 - ideas.repec.org
HollŠnder (1990) argued that when non-monetary social approval from peers is sufficiently
valuable, it works to promote cooperation. HollŠnder, however, did not define the
characteristics of environments in which high valued approval is likely to occur. This paper ...
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The Costs of Conflict

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A Smith, D Houser, P Leeson… - 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Violent conflict destroys resources. It generates “destruction costs.” These costs
have an important effect on individuals' decisions to cooperate or conflict. We develop two
models of conflict: one in which conflict's destruction costs are independent of individuals' ...
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[CITATION] Public Implementation Eliminates DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS OF PUNISHMENT ON Human Cooperation

D Houser… - 2006
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[PDF] When Punishment Fails: Research ON Sanctions, Intentions AND Non-Cooperation

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DHEXK MCCABE, V SMITH… - 2005 - 129.3.20.41
Abstract: People can become less cooperative when threatened with sanctions, and
researchers have pointed to both" intentions" and incentives as sources of this effect. This
paper reports data from a novel experimental design aimed at determining the relative ...
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Preliminary And Incomplete-Please Do Not Quote Without Permission Behavior In A Dynamic Decision Problem

H Daniel, K Michael, M Kevin - ukpmc.ac.uk
this paper is as follows: In section 2 we give some background onthe literature on
experimental analysis of behavior in complex decision problems. Insection 3 we present our
experimental design. In section 4 we describe the Bayesianalgorithm for classifying ...
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[PDF] HOW CENTRALLY PLANNED WAS CHINA'S GREAT LEAP FORWARD DEMOGRAPHIC DISASTER?

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D Houser… - 2000 - econ.eller.arizona.edu
ABSTRACT The millions of deaths that occurred during China's great famine of 1959-1961
represent one of the world's greatest civil demographic disasters. Two primary hypotheses
have been advanced to explain the famine. One is that China experienced three ...
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Mating Strategies and Gender Differences in Pro-sociality: Theory and Evidence

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X Pan… - CESifo Economic Studies, 2011 - CESifo Group
Abstract This article examines gender differences in pro-sociality using theories from
evolutionary psychology and empirical evidence from experimental economics. Although
there has been extensive prior research in both fields, there remains a large disconnect ...
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[CITATION] Paul W. Glimcher, Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, London, UK (2003) ISBN 0-262-07244-0, 375+ xx pp., index, US …

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D Houser - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2005 - ideas.repec.org
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The life and times of Gordon Tullock

CK Rowley… - Public Choice, 2011 - Springer
Abstract Gordon Tullock is a founding father of public choice. In an academic career that has
spanned 50 years, he forged much of the research agenda of the public choice program and
he founded and edited Public Choice, the key journal of public choice scholarship. Tullock ...
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[CITATION] Were Black Workers Harmed by Industrial Segregation? The Case of Pennsylvania, 1916-1950

RS Johnson, D Houser, S Kantor…
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Private and Public Decisions in Social Dilemmas: Evidence from Children 脮 s Behavior

D Houser, N Montinari… - 2012 - ideas.repec.org
Substantial research with adult populations has found that selfish impulses are less likely to
be pursued when decisions are publicly observable. To the best of our knowledge, however,
this behavioral regularity has not been systematically explored as potential solution to ...
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[DOC] MANNING TO THE EDGE: BEHAVIORAL ISSUES IN DECISION MAKING & RESOURCE ALLOCATION MECHANISMS

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T Blackstone, DE Houser, S Rassenti, D Porter… - economicsystemdesign.com
MANNING TO THE EDGE: BEHAVIORAL ISSUES IN DECISION MAKING. &
RESOURCE ALLOCATION MECHANISMS. Final Report. Contract # N0018907PN653
& N0018907PPV02. Submitted To: Tanja Blackstone, Ph.D. Navy ...
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Public Choice Issues in Collective Action: Constituent Group Pressures and International Global Warming Regulation

D Houser, J Bial… - 2000 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: There is a large and growing literature on scientific estimates and regulatory
instruments associated with international efforts to control greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions. The underlying collective action processes have received much less attention. ...
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