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Assessing risk attitudes among physicians, medical students, and non-medical students with experimental data 用实验数据评估医生、医学生和非医学生的风险态度

IF 1.6 3区经济学

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102384

Calogero Guccio , Domenica Romeo , Massimo Finocchiaro Castro

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The effects of party size and dining duration on tipping behavior 聚会规模和用餐时间对付小费行为的影响

IF 1.6 3区经济学

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102386

Erik Haugom, Christer Thrane

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Moral preferences in ultimatum and impunity games 最后通牒与有罪不罚博弈中的道德偏好

IF 1.6 3区经济学

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102371

Valerio Capraro , Ismael Rodriguez-Lara

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Competitor ability, sorting and overconfidence: An experiment 竞争能力，分类和过度自信：一个实验

IF 1.6 3区经济学

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102373

Tianyi Li, Charles N. Noussair

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Does lobbying discourage individuals from fighting climate change? 游说会阻碍个人对抗气候变化吗？

IF 1.6 3区经济学

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2025-04-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102372

Raphael Epperson

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Influenced by others: Trusting behaviour and social influence 受他人影响：信任行为和社会影响

IF 1.6 3区经济学

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2025-04-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102370

Tobias Schütze , Kyle Nash , Britta Gehrke , Philipp C. Wichardt

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How gender and prosociality affect machine interaction in tax compliance: A game-theoretic experiment 性别和亲社会性如何影响税收遵从中的机器交互：一个博弈论实验

IF 1.6 3区经济学

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102369

Yutaro Murakami , Satoshi Taguchi

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Anticipated regret and respondent uncertainty in assessing public preferences for air pollution treatment policies: A choice experiment 评估公众对空气污染治理政策偏好的预期后悔和被调查者的不确定性：一个选择实验

IF 1.6 3区经济学

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102368

Debin Zheng , Yulin Long , Yuehua Wei , Zhenyu Cai , Zhiwen Cheng , Changlin Ao

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Anticipatory effects of competition on confidence and risk preference 竞争对信心和风险偏好的预期效应

IF 1.6 3区经济学

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102367

Stephen L. Cheung , Vindesh Nadan

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Happiness and willingness to compete 幸福和竞争的意愿

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Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102365

Karl Overdick

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