How Cortisol Reactivity Influences Prosocial Decision-Making: The Moderating Role of Sex and Empathic Concern by Qionghan Zhang, Qionghan Zhang, Jianhong Ma, Urs M. Nater

“…Subsequently, participants completed three economic tasks—the dictator game, the ultimatum game, and the third-party compensation game. …”
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Third-Party Punishment or Compensation? It Depends on the Reputational Benefits by Zhuang Li, Gengdan Hu, Gengdan Hu, Lei Xu, Qiangqiang Li

“…The participants were asked to choose a method to respond to an unfair result of the dictator game. There were two reputational contexts: secret and open. …”
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I win it's fair, you win it's not. Selective heeding of merit in ambiguous settings. by Serhiy Kandul, Olexandr Nikolaychuk

“…We examine a modified version of the dictator game, where dictatorship is assigned by a fair procedure that is linked to the participant actions but in effect is completely random, to illustrate that this belief is not independent of the outcome and is self-serving in its nature. …”
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Does Social Hierarchy Matter for Resource Distribution? by Débora Jeanette Mola, Juan Carlos Godoy, Cecilia Reyna

“…In Experiment 3, the role of SS, SVO and SSS in the DG and the Dictator Game Taking (DGT) was examined. In the three experiments, it was not found that SS had any effect on the decisions of the games. …”
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Get the happiness out–An online experiment on the causal effects of positive emotions on giving by Anja Köbrich Leon, Janosch Schobin

“…Using a lab-in-field experiment, we induce positive incidental emotions randomly and analyze their effects on donations using a dictator game with multiple beneficiaries. Although we find no significant overall effect of positive incidental emotions on donation levels, our results show a significant shift in the allocation of donations towards the host charity. …”
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Private provision of a public good: cooperation and altruism of internet forum users by Alejandro Ros-Galvez, Alfonso Rosa-Garcia

“…We ran an experiment with users of Internet forums. In a dictator game, we find that the level of altruism is positively related to the activity in the forum. …”
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Do I Really Want to Know? A Cognitive Dissonance-Based Explanation of Other-Regarding Behavior by Tobias Regner, Astrid Matthey

“…We investigate to what extent genuine social preferences can explain observed other-regarding behavior. In a dictator game variant subjects can choose whether to learn about the consequences of their choice for the receiver. …”
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Get the happiness out-An online experiment on the causal effects of positive emotions on giving. by Anja Köbrich Leon, Janosch Schobin

“…Using a lab-in-field experiment, we induce positive incidental emotions randomly and analyze their effects on donations using a dictator game with multiple beneficiaries. Although we find no significant overall effect of positive incidental emotions on donation levels, our results show a significant shift in the allocation of donations towards the host charity. …”
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The effect of anchors and social information on behaviour. by Tanya O'Garra, Matthew R Sisco

“…We use a 'multi-player dictator game' (MDG), with 'social information' about the monetary transfer made by a previous dictator to a recipient, to examine whether average contributions as well as the behavioural strategy adopted are affected by the first amount presented (the 'anchor') using a sequential strategy elicitation method. …”
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Laughter influences social bonding but not prosocial generosity to friends and strangers. by R I M Dunbar, Anna Frangou, Felix Grainger, Eiluned Pearce

“…Using changes in pain threshold as a proxy for endorphin upregulation in the brain and a standard economic game (the Dictator Game) as an assay of prosociality, we show that laughter does trigger the endorphin system and, through that, seems to enhance social bonding, but it does not reliably influence donations to others. …”
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Does Implicit Bias Predict Dictator Giving? by Daniel J. Lee

“…In doing so, I pair the Implicit Association Test (IAT), commonplace in other social sciences, with a laboratory dictator game with sorting. I find that despite its popularity, the IAT does not predict dictator giving and social pressure does not explain acts of giving from biased dictators. …”
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How to implement real-time interaction between participants in online surveys: A practical guide to SMARTRIQS by Molnar, Andras

“…This paper not only provides an overview of SMARTRIQS and its potential applications but also walks readers through the step-by-step instructions for setting up a particular study (Dictator Game with chat). These instructions start from the very basics, assuming no prior expertise in online experimentation, and are accessible to everyone, even those who are less---or not at all---familiar with Qualtrics.…”
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Competing social identities and intergroup discrimination: Evidence from a framed field experiment with high school students in Vietnam. by Tam Kiet Vuong, Ho Fai Chan, Benno Torgler

“…We conducted a framed field experiment to explore a situation where individuals have potentially competing social identities to understand how group identification and socialisation affect in-group favouritism and out-group discrimination. The Dictator Game and the Trust Game were conducted in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City on two groups of high school students with different backgrounds, i.e., French bilingual and monolingual (Vietnamese) students. …”
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Competing social identities and intergroup discrimination: Evidence from a framed field experiment with high school students in Vietnam by Tam Kiet Vuong, Ho Fai Chan, Benno Torgler

“…We conducted a framed field experiment to explore a situation where individuals have potentially competing social identities to understand how group identification and socialisation affect in-group favouritism and out-group discrimination. The Dictator Game and the Trust Game were conducted in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City on two groups of high school students with different backgrounds, i.e., French bilingual and monolingual (Vietnamese) students. …”
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In-group favouritism and out-group discrimination in naturally occurring groups. by Klaus Abbink, Donna Harris

“…We study in-group favouritism and out-group discrimination in a multiplayer dictator game in a naturally occuring group setting. …”
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Affect and prosocial behavior: The role of decision mode and individual processing style by Manja Gärtner, David Andersson, Daniel Västfjäll, Gustav Tinghög

“…Prosocial behavior was measured across a series of commonly used and incentivized games (prisoner’s dilemma game, public goods game, trust game, dictator game). Our results show that prosocial behavior increased for the affective (``heart'') decision mode. …”
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Homo aequalis: a cross-society experimental analysis of three bargaining games by Barr, A, Wallace, C, Ensminger, J, Henrich, J

“…Data from three bargaining games - the Dictator Game, the Ultimatum Game, and the Third-Party Punishment Game - played in 15 societies are presented. …”

Laughter influences social bonding but not prosocial generosity to friends and strangers by Dunbar, RIM, Frangou, A, Grainger, F, Pearce, E

“…Using changes in pain threshold as a proxy for endorphin upregulation in the brain and a standard economic game (the Dictator Game) as an assay of prosociality, we show that laughter does trigger the endorphin system and, through that, seems to enhance social bonding, but it does not reliably influence donations to others. …”

Bounded Solidarity in Cross-National Encounters: Individuals Share More with Others from Poor Countries but Trust Them Less by Felix Bader, Marc Keuschnigg

“…In a 109-country online experiment, we convey information on interaction partners' nationalities to indicate membership in a broader in- or out-group, cultural distance, and perceived material neediness—or status differences more generally—to 1,674 participants in incentivized games of generosity (dictator game) and trust (trust game). We find consistent evidence for in-group favoritism and—against this benchmark—demonstrate that individuals across the globe share more with but place less trust in interaction partners from poor countries and that cultural distance moderates this status effect.…”
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Exploring the trade-off between quality and fairness in human partner choice by Nichola J. Raihani, Pat Barclay

“…We used a modified Dictator Game to tackle this question. Choosers evaluated partners varying in quality (proxied by wealth) and fairness, in conditions when wealth was relatively stable or liable to change. …”
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