The Associations between Perceived Parenting Styles, Empathy, and Altruistic Choices in Economic Games: A Study of Chinese Children by Qingke Guo, Linlin Feng

“…Four hundred and ninety-four children (Mage = 8.92 years) completed four simple binary-choice dictator games which are widely used in the study of other-regarding preferences (concerns for the interests of others). …”
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Rewarding the good and punishing the bad: the role of karma and afterlife beliefs in shaping moral norms by Willard, AK, Baimel, A, Turpin, H, Jong, J, Whitehouse, H

“…Study 2 (N = 830) exploited religious syncretism in this population by reminding participants about either moral afterlife beliefs (reincarnation or heaven/hell), ancestor veneration beliefs, or neither, before assessing norms of generosity in a series of hypothetical dictator games. When reminded of their ancestor veneration beliefs, Buddhists and Taoists (but not Christians) endorsed parochial prosocial norms, expressing willingness to give more to their family and religious group than did those in the control condition. …”

A daily diary study on adolescents' mood, empathy, and prosocial behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. by Suzanne van de Groep, Kiki Zanolie, Kayla H Green, Sophie W Sweijen, Eveline A Crone

“…To this end, we utilized novel hypothetical Dictator Games with ecologically valid targets associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Daily prosocial actions during the COVID-19 pandemic contribute to giving behavior in adolescence by Sophie W. Sweijen, Suzanne van de Groep, Kayla H. Green, Lysanne W. te Brinke, Moniek Buijzen, Rebecca N. H. de Leeuw, Eveline A. Crone

“…At all timepoints, participants performed Dictator Games to measure giving to peers, friends and COVID-19 targets (medical doctors, COVID-19 patients, individuals with a poor immune system). …”
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Modes of Collective Action in Village Economies: Evidence from Natural and Artefactual Field Experiments in a Developing Country by Yasuyuki Sawada, Ryuji Kasahara, Keitaro Aoyagi, Masahiro Shoji, Mika Ueyama

“…To achieve this, we collect and employ artefactual field experimental data such as public goods and dictator games conducted in southern Sri Lanka under a natural experimental situation where the majority of farmers were relocated to randomly selected communities based on the government lottery. …”
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Neuronal correlates of social decision making are influenced by social value orientation – an fMRI study by Katarina eKuss, Katarina eKuss, Armin eFalk, Armin eFalk, Peter eTrautner, Christian eMontag, Christian eMontag, Bernd eWeber, Bernd eWeber, Bernd eWeber, Klaus eFliessbach, Klaus eFliessbach

“…They made decisions in multiple modified Dictator-Games (DG) that addressed self- and other-regarding motives to a varying extent (self gain, non-costly social gain, mutual gain, costly social gain). …”
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Trust, fairness and cooperation in times of conflict : a behavioral economics approach to measuring intergroup norms of behavior in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict by Binur, Anat

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The political economy of violence and post-conflict recovery in sub-Saharan Africa by Cilliers, E, Jacobus Cilliers

“…I find that foreigner presence substantially increases player contributions in dictator games, by an average of 19 per cent. Furthermore, the treatment effect is smaller for players who hold positions of authority; and subjects from villages with greater exposure to development aid give substantially less and are more inclined to believe that the behavioural games were conducted to test them for future aid.…”

Essays in Public and Behavioral Economics by Rafkin, Charlie

“…We detect heterogeneous social preferences: 24% of tenants and 15% of landlords exhibit hostility, giving up money to hurt the other in real-stakes Dictator Games, yet more than 50% of both are highly altruistic. …”
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