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Recruitment into illegal and paramilitary organisations, 2006-2010
This comparative research has examined two political insurgency cases: paramilitary groups in the Northern Ireland conflict and the Red Brigades in Italy; and two organised... -
The UK 2015 General Election, Twitter data
This archive includes files containing the IDs of Tweets collected during the 2015 General Election for the project Social Media - Developing Understanding, Infrastructure &... -
Household-level agricultural inputs-outputs, off-farm income and wild-harvest...
This data collection consists of primary dataset with accompanying documents for ''Agricultural inputs-outputs and off-farm income' and 'Wild-harvested products' segments of the... -
Religion, discrimination and trust across three cultures
We propose that religion impacts trust and trustworthiness in ways that depend on how individuals are socially identified and connected. Religiosity and religious affiliation... -
Combining 'real effort' with induced effort costs: The ball-catching task
We introduce the “ball-catching task”, a novel computerized task, which combines a tangible action (“catching balls”) with induced material cost of effort. The central feature... -
Peer effects and social preferences in voluntary cooperation: A theoretical a...
Social preferences and social influence effects (“peer effects”) are well documented, but little is known about how peers shape social preferences. Settings where social... -
Discrimination in the laboratory: A meta-analysis of economics experiments
Economists are increasingly using experiments to study and measure discrimination between groups. In a meta-analysis containing 441 results from 77 studies, we find groups... -
The dynamics of deferred decision, experimental data
Decision makers are often unable to choose between the options that they are offered. In these settings they typically defer their decision, that is, delay the decision to a... -
Decision making in environments with non-independent dimensions, experimental...
This paper tests whether the dimensions involved in preferential choice tasks are evaluated independently from one another. Common decision heuristics satisfy dimensional... -
Event construal and temporal distance in natural language
Construal level theory proposes that events that are temporally proximate are represented more concretely than events that are temporally distant. We tested this prediction... -
Attention and attribute overlap in preferential choice
Attributes that are common, or overlapping, across alternatives in two-alternative forced preferential choice tasks are often non-diagnostic. In many settings, attending to and... -
Reciprocity and the tragedies of maintaining and providing the commons
Social cooperation often requires collectively beneficial but individually costly restraint to maintain a public good 1,2,3,4, or it needs costly generosity to create one 1,5.... -
Reducing avoidance of debt-related information: a simple questionnaire experi...
Experimental dataset resulting from a modified Howell and Shepperd (2013) questionnaire which was originally designed to prompt contemplation of diabetes and applied it to... -
On the beliefs off the path: Equilibrium refinement due to quantal response a...
The extensive form game we study has multiple perfect equilibria, but it has a unique limiting logit equilibrium (QRE) and a unique level-k prediction as k approaches infinity.... -
Efficiency, equality, and labelling: An experimental investigation of focal p...
We investigate Schelling’s hypothesis that payoff-irrelevant labels (“cues”) can influence the outcomes of bargaining games with communication. In our experimental games,... -
Using a video to prompt contemplation of debt-related avoidance, 2013-2016
The present data pertains to a study where participants were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: (1) video contemplation and (2) control. Specifically, we prompted... -
Intergroup emotional exchange: Ingroup guilt and outgroup anger increase repa...
Intergroup exchanges are an integral part of social life but are compromised when one group pursues its interests at another group’s expense. The present research investigates... -
Risky choice in the limelight, experimental data
This paper examines how risk behavior in the limelight differs from that in anonymity. In two separate experiments, we find that subjects are more risk averse in the limelight.... -
Standing united or falling divided? High stakes bargaining in a TV game show
We examine high stakes three-person bargaining in a game show where contestants bargain over a large money amount that is split into three unequal shares. We find that... -
Credit union study: Improving estimates of expenditure with a simple interven...
Collection consists of data collected within the loan application form that the credit unions use to assess loan applications. The aim was to investigate if contemplation can...