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Faculty Research Seminar Series:
"Identifying Social Norms Using Coordination Games: Why Does Dictator Game Sharing Vary?" |
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1:00 PM-2:00 PM
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Wed, February 04, 2009 |
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1202 SI North (in person)
Ehrlicher Room, 411 West Hall (videocast) |
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Speakers: |
Erin Krupka |
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Description: |
Erin L. Krupka is a research associate at IZA in Bonn, Germany. She holds a doctorate in behavioral decision research from Carnegie Mellon University. In her research she explores how social and environmental factors influence behavior. Her current research focuses primarily on social norms and inter-temporal choice. Her research on social norms suggests why individuals might engage in behaviors which appear inconsistent with self-interest and suggests why trivial modifications to a decision context can change behavior significantly. Her research on inter-temporal choice suggests that elicited impatience estimates are sensitive to environmental factors which, in turn, may have implications for high interest credit use among financially vulnerable populations.
In this talk, Krupka will explore the influence of social norms on behavior. In her research with Roberto Weber, she introduced a method for identifying norms, based on the property that social norms reflect social consensus regarding the appropriateness of different possible behaviors. She will demonstrate that the norms she elicited, along with a simple model combining concern for norm-compliance with utility for money, predicted changes in behavior across several variants of the dictator game in which behavior changes substantially followed the introduction of minor contextual variations. Her findings indicate that people care not just about monetary payoffs but also care about the social appropriateness of any action they take. Her work also suggests that a social norm is not always a single action that should or should not be taken, but rather a profile of varying degrees of social appropriateness for different available actions.
All are invited to attend. To promote in-depth intellectual engagement during the seminar, all are encouraged to read Krupka's paper in advance .
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Sponsor: |
School of Information |
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Contact: |
JoAnne Kerr |
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jmkerr@umich.edu |
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