The pleasure of being nasty

By Klaus Abbink, Abdolkarim Sadrieh. 2009

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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The Dark Side of Competition for Status (2014, background): “For example, destructive activities such as money burning can be partly explained by a desire for dominance (Abbink and Sadrieh, 2009).”
Can Social Contact Reduce Prejudice and Discrimination? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria (2018, background): “19 Abbink and Sadrieh (2009) implement a similar game absent payoffs for destruction.”
Imperfect Public Monitoring with Costly Punishment - An Experimental Study (2012, unknown): “Abbink and Sadrieh (2009) find that if contributions are observed perfectly but there is noise in observing punishment then subjects punish each other more, reducing overall efficiency.”
Sabotage in contests: a survey (2015, background): “2010), ‘‘nastiness’’ (Zizzo and Oswald 2001; Abbink and Sadrieh 2009), ‘‘risk taking’’ (Genakos and Pagliero 2012), and ‘‘cheating’’ (Preston and Szymanski 2003).”
The appearance of homo rivalis: Social preferences and the nature of rent seeking (2008, background): “Abbink and Sadrieh (2008) find that people seem to get pleasure from costlessly reducing someone else’s income, when they can hide this activity behind the veil of a lottery mechanism that sometimes destroys the other’s income independently.”
The Moral Costs of Nastiness (2011, unknown): “Abbink and Sadrieh (2009) remove inequity aversion as a possible motive to burn money from their joy-ofdestruction game and still obtain destruction frequencies of up to 40%.”
The promise of Mechanical Turk: how online labor markets can help theorists run behavioral experiments. (2012, background): “…(G ¨ achter and Herrmann, 2009; G ¨ achter and Herrmann, in press; Herrmann et al., 2008) and that people will even pay to punish each other in the absence of any motivations whatsoever (for example, in the so-called 'joy of destruction' game) (Abbink and Sadrieh, 2009; Abbink and Herrmann, 2011).”