Empathy: A clue for prosocialty and driver of indirect reciprocity. by Frauke von Bieberstein, Andrea Essl, Kathrin Friedrich

“…Furthermore, in a second dictator game, participants indirectly reciprocate by sending more money to more empathetic recipients. …”
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An exploration of the motivational basis of take-some and give-some games by Tessa Haesevoets, Alain Van Hiel, Jasper Van Assche, Dries H. Bostyn, Chris Reinders Folmer

“…Yet, our second experiment revealed that these motives did differentiate choices in the Bandit Game and the Dictator Game. More specifically, prosocial motives are more strongly related to giving behavior in the Dictator Game than to taking behavior in the Bandit Game. …”
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Variation in cooperative behaviour within a single city. by Daniel Nettle, Agathe Colléony, Maria Cockerill

“…Human cooperative behaviour, as assayed by decisions in experimental economic dilemmas such as the Dictator Game, is variable across human populations. …”
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The effects of exposure to images of others' suffering and vulnerability on altruistic, trust-based, and reciprocated economic decision-making. by Philip A Powell, Olivia Wills, Gemma Reynolds, Kaisa Puustinen-Hopper, Jennifer Roberts

“…The experimental manipulation also significantly increased altruistic giving in the standard "dictator game" and trust-based giving in the "investment game", but only in those who were lower in in-group trust and also high in affective or cognitive empathy. …”
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An exploration of the motivational basis of take-some and give-some games by Tessa Haesevoets, Alain Van Hiel, Jasper Van Assche, Dries H. Bostyn, Chris Reinders Folmer

“…Yet, our second experiment revealed that these motives did differentiate choices in the Bandit Game and the Dictator Game. More specifically, prosocial motives are more strongly related to giving behavior in the Dictator Game than to taking behavior in the Bandit Game. …”
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Maladaptive personality traits as predictors of prosocial and trusting behavior in two economic games by Johanna Hepp, Melissa R. M. Mohr, Inga Niedtfeld

“…Specifically, we examined antagonism as a predictor of prosocial behavior in a dictator game, and suspiciousness as a predictor of trust in the faith game. …”
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Altruism, trust and reciprocity : an experimental analysis by Chai, Hui Yi, Neo, Hui Lin, Oon, Wei Jian

“…We conducted four studies: a Dictator Game, an Investment Game, and two hybrids of the two games. …”
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Individual differences in decision making: Drive and reward responsiveness affect strategic bargaining in economic games by Sanfey Alan G, Scheres Anouk

“…</p> <p>Results</p> <p>We found that higher scores on BAS Drive and on BAS Reward Responsiveness were associated with a pattern of higher offers on the Ultimatum Game, lower offers on the Dictator Game, and a correspondingly larger discrepancy between Ultimatum Game and Dictator Game offers.…”
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Role of the prefrontal cortex in prosocial and self-maximization motivations: an rTMS study by Oksana Zinchenko, Olga Savelo, Vasily Klucharev

“…The aim of this paper was to compare predictions of the intuitive and reflective models using the classic dictator game and generosity game and continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS). …”
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Contact Heterogeneity as a Mediator of the Relationship between Social Class and Altruistic Giving by Andreas Tutić, Ulf Liebe

“…We show that social class has a positive effect on altruistic giving in the dictator game with a sizeable sample of residents of the United States using both an objective measure of social class—that is, a composite of income, education, and occupational prestige—and a subjective measure. …”
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No association between oxytocin receptor (OXTR) gene polymorphisms and experimentally elicited social preferences. by Coren L Apicella, David Cesarini, Magnus Johannesson, Christopher T Dawes, Paul Lichtenstein, Björn Wallace, Jonathan Beauchamp, Lars Westberg

“…Two standard economic games, the dictator game and the trust game, both involving real monetary consequences, were used to elicit such preferences. …”
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Distanced self-talk increases rational self-interest by Izzy Gainsburg, Walter J. Sowden, Brittany Drake, Warren Herold, Ethan Kross

“…Here we adjudicate between these perspectives by testing the effects of adopting a third-person perspective on decision making in a task that pits rational self-interest against impartiality: the dictator game. Aggregating across three experiments (N = 774), participants who used third-person (i.e., distanced) vs. first-person (i.e., immersed) self-talk during the dictator game kept more money for themselves. …”
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The Influence of Social Category and Reciprocity on Adults' and Children's Altruistic Behavior by Michaela Gummerum, Masanori Takezawa, Monika Keller

“…Adults and sixth-grade children allocated more to ingroup than to outgroup receivers in the dictator game, and adults punished ingroup non-cooperators more in the third-party punishment game than outgroup non-cooperators. …”
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The Effect of Preceding Self-Control on Prosocial Behaviors: The Moderating Role of Awe by Jin Li, Jin Li, Anke Li, Anke Li, Yu Sun, Yu Sun, Hui’ e Li, Hui’ e Li, Lei Liu, Youlong Zhan, Youlong Zhan, Wei Fan, Wei Fan, Yiping Zhong, Yiping Zhong

“…The anonymous economic dictator game is an effective index of prosocial behaviors. …”
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Fairness in Risky Environments: Theory and Evidence by Silvester Van Koten, Andreas Ortmann, Vitezslav Babicky

“…We find that: (1) Those who are more risk-averse are also more inequality-averse in the Dictator game (and also in the Ultimatum game but there not statistically significantly so) in that they give more; (2) Using the within-subject feature of our design, and in line with our theoretical prediction, varying risk does not influence behavior in the Dictator game, but does so in the Ultimatum game (contradicting our theoretical prediction for that game); (3) Using the within-subject feature of our design, subjects tend to make inconsistent decisions across games; this is true on the level of individuals as well as in the aggregate. …”
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Exploring the effects of working for endowments on behaviour in standard economic games. by Freya Harrison, Claire El Mouden

“…The requirement for endowments to be 'earned' through labour did not affect behaviour in the dictator game. However, the requirement to complete a dull task reduced cooperation in the public goods game among the subset of participants who were not familiar with game theory. …”
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The social learning and development of intra- and inter-ethnic sharing norms in the Congo Basin: A registered report protocol. by Sarah Pope-Caldwell, Sheina Lew-Levy, Luke Maurits, Adam H Boyette, Kate Ellis-Davies, Daniel Haun, Harriet Over, Bailey R House

“…Children (5-17 years) and adults (17+ years) will also participate in a modified Dictator Game to investigate the developmental trajectories of children's intra- and inter-ethnic sharing choices. …”
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No Association between Oxytocin Receptor (OXTR) Gene Polymorphisms and Experimentally Elicited Social Preferences by Cesarini, David Alexander, Apicella, Coren L., Johannesson, Magnus, Dawes, Christopher T., Lichtenstein, Paul, Wallace, Björn, Beauchamp, Jonathan, Westberg, Lars

“…Two standard economic games, the dictator game and the trust game, both involving real monetary consequences, were used to elicit such preferences. …”
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Exploring the effects of working for endowments on behaviour in standard economic games. by Harrison, F, El Mouden, C

“…The requirement for endowments to be 'earned' through labour did not affect behaviour in the dictator game. However, the requirement to complete a dull task reduced cooperation in the public goods game among the subset of participants who were not familiar with game theory. …”

Helping "us" vs. "them": ingroup favouritism in prosocial behaviour by Everett, J

“…In Chapter 4, I explore ingroup favouritism in the context of real religious groups using games that either have (Trust Game) or lack (Dictator Game) interdependent outcomes. I find ingroup favouritism only by atheist participants in a Dictator Game. …”