On sympathy and games

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Strategic conversation (2012, background): “A move that adds to the positive face of the interlocutor also looks good in the eyes of the judge and the jury (Sally (2001) and Mazar & Ariely (2006) echo similar themes by speaking of empathy with the prosecutor or a penchant to stay within social norms).”
An entrepreneur's choice of venture capitalist or angel-financing: A behavioral game-theoretic approach (2011, background): “After a search of the literature, we decided to focus on the effects of trust and empathy.10 Our behavioral approach to empathy and trust is closest in spirit to that of Levine (1998), Sally (2001), and Herold (2008).”
The Physiology of Moral Sentiments (2011, unknown): “First, many economic models have been proposed to explain prosocial behaviors (e.g. Rabin, 1993; Sally, 2000, 2001; Camerer, 2003), but all are based on the standard approach in economics of deducing a model and then testing it.”