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Payment Procedure in a Public Good Game Experiment: The Effects of Endowment Timing, Tangibility, and Source [Dataset]
No full textWe study whether and how payment procedure affects behavior in a repeated public good game. To this end, we conducted five treatments, varying the times of paying the initial endowment (week before, before, or after the decisions) and the source of the initial endowment (windfall vs. earned money in a real-effort task). We find little evidence for effects of tangible endowment, windfall endowment, or prepaid endowment. However, we observe that payment procedures do influence decisions in a repeated public good game experiment
Group Size and the (In)Efficiency of Pure Public Good Provision [Dataset]
No full textAre larger groups better at cooperation than smaller groups? This paper investigates, under controlled conditions, the presence and direction of a possible group size effect in pure public good provision by large heterogeneous groups. Employing subjects drawn from the general population and introducing Internet-based procedures to study this question, we collected experimental evidence from 1,110 subjects playing a linear public goods game in groups of 10, 40, and 100 members. We find a positive and significant group size effect: Increasing group size by a factor of 10 (4) increased efficiency by 10 (6) percent. The effect arose at the intensive margin and with repetition. Those who contributed contributed more in larger groups. Larger and smaller groups had similar initial contribution levels, but cooperation rates declined more slowly in the larger groups. Free-riding was invariant to group size, despite subjects' persistent beliefs of a negative group size effect at the extensive margin. Further econometric examination of the data supports these findings and provides starting points for future theoretical an
d experimental research on the group size effect
Social Network Centralization Dynamics in Print Production in the Low Countries, 1550-1750
No full textData on prints held by the Rijksmuseum and the British Museum, with derived network analysis data and visualization code
The role of personal interaction in the assessment of risk attitudes [Dataset]
No full textMany decisions under uncertainty are delegated to professionals, such as financial advisors or medical doctors, requiring them to assess the risk attitudes of their clients or patients. To gain a better under- standing of the potential factors influencing risk attitude assessments, the current study investigates the role of personal interaction in these assessments. Controlling for information transmitted, we find that personal interaction leads to more risk-averse assessments, but does neither harm nor benefit assess- ments in terms of precision. We replicate previous findings of stereotypes in risk preference predictions, and discuss the influence of the assessor’s own risk attitude on her assessments
Ambiguity Attitudes in Decisions for Others [Dataset]
No full textWe probe the pattern of ambiguity aversion for moderate-likelihood gain prospects, and ambiguity seeking for low-likelihood gain prospects, if people make decisions not for themselves but as agents for others. We confirm the pattern both with and without accountability
Protein abundance control by non-coding antisense transcription [Dataset]
No full textData accompanying the paper "Protein abundance control by non-coding antisense transcription" by Huber et al, 2016, Cell Reports. This contains FACS data for the noise analysis in the publication as well as single cell data from microscopy
Who never tells a lie? [Data set and Programs]
No full textI experimentally investigate the hypothesis that many people avoid lying even in a situation where doing so would result in a Pareto improvement. Replicating (Erat and Gneezy, Management Science 58, 723-733, 2012), I find that a significant fraction of subjects tell the truth in a sender-receiver game where both subjects earn a higher payoff when the partner makes an incorrect guess regarding the roll of a die. However, a non-incentivized questionnaire indicates that the vast majority of these subjects expected their partner not to follow their message. I conduct two new experiments explicitly designed to test for a 'pure' aversion to lying, and find no evidence for the existence of such a motivation. I discuss the implications of the findings for moral behavior and rule following more generally
Augustinian Correspondence Database (ACDb)
No full textThe Augustinian Correspondence Database, Version 3, (ACDb 3) contains all intertextual references noted in the editions of Alois Goldbacher, Klaus-Detlef Daur, and Johannes Divjak. In different sheets you find frequency of references sorted by content and scale of identifiability, a list of all references mentioned by Goldbacher, Daur, and Divjak, graphs and data analysing the distribution of references within a letter, a list of all indications of sources Augustine uses, statistics of all indications of source and terms of illocution Augustine uses, all repeated references within a letter, rankings among the correspondence of Augustine concerning total number of words and references, frequency and distribution of repeated references within a letter, and total number of sources which are also sorted by marking level, a list of all references added or omitted by Daur, a list of all abbreviations used in the database, and a list of all literature and tools used in creating the database. </ol
Appendix zur Dissertation "Filmische Bestattungen im Spiegel des Diskurses um den ,Guten Todʻ - Eine gegenstandsbezogene Programmatik für eine religionswissenschaftliche Filmanalyse: Motivcluster der Bestattungslandschaft im Spielfilm"
No full textDas Motivcluster der Bestattungslandschaft im Spielfilm zeigt die motivische Vielfalt und Gewichtung filmischer Bestattungen innerhalb eines Korpus von 50 Spielfilmen aus dem nordamerikanischen und europäischen Raum, der für die Dissertationsschrift "Filmische Bestattungen im Spiegel des Diskurses um den ,Guten Todʻ - Eine gegenstandsbezogene Programmatik für eine religionswissenschaftliche Filmanalyse" untersucht worden ist. Die Filme stammen aus dem Zeitraum 1971-2012 und sind in dem Motivcluster mit ihrem jeweiligen Erscheinungsjahr aufgelistet. Das Motivcluster stellt einen ersten Baustein für eine Grundlagenforschung der Medialisierung der Bestattung im Spielfilm dar und bildet zugleich das Fundament für die in der Arbeit vorgenommenen ausführlichen Analysen einzelner filmischer Bestattungen. Es kann als eine Form der Bestandsaufnahme verstanden werden, die einen makroorientierten und quantitativen Zugang zum Untersuchungsgegenstand bietet. Unterschiedliche Charakteristika der filmischen Bestattungen werden hier entsprechend der in der Arbeit vorgestellten Programmatik für eine religionswissenschaftliche Filmanalyse im Überblick dargestellt. Hierzu gehören Aspekte der Medienästhetik, der Narration, der Figuren,
des Inhalts und des Kontextes der filmischen Bestattungen. Der durch das Motivcluster und die einzelnen untersuchten Kategorien entstehende Überblick lässt erste Formen der Politiken der Repräsentation in der Bestattungslandschaft ersichtlich werden und zeigt hier ein dominantes jüdisch-christliches religiöses Feld. Eine ausführliche Aufarbeitung, Beschreibung und Auswertung des Motivclusters findet sich in Kapitel 4 der Dissertation: „Ausschnitte aus der Bestattungslandschaft im Spielfilm – Eine explorative Vorstudie“
HDAMM-predictor: prediction of progression in asymptomatic myeloma patients
No full textThe HDAMM-predictor is based on microarray gene expression and predicts the risk of progression from asymptomatic to symptomatic myeloma. It divides the patients in three groups, from low to high risk to progress. It was generated according to the method published by Rème et al. 2013. Gene expression profiles of 259 asymptomatic myeloma patients were used as trainingset