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Risks to selves, risks to others

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Individuals sometimes impose health risks on others and even on themselves when they engage in activities such as smoking, drinking and sex. Health interventions that minimize risk to selves and others (RSO) and to selves (SELF) have been established to evaluate cost per-life year saved. RSO interventions recorded a lower cost per unit of benefit compared to SELF interventions. This difference exhibits decision-makers minimal consideration of the risk they impose on others.

Author: Heymann, S. Jody, Avery, Christopher, Zeckhauser, Richard
Publisher: American Economic Association
Publication Name: American Economic Review
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0002-8282
Year: 1995
Risk factors (Health), Health risk assessment

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Trust, risk and betrayal

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The impact of the risk of betrayal costs on trusting behavior of a person is examined. The experimental results indicated that the risk of betrayal decreased people's willingness to trust.

Author: Zeckhauser, Richard, Bohnet, Iris
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Publication Name: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0167-2681
Year: 2004
Analysis, Influence, Trust (Psychology), Betrayal

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Compensating the cooperators: is sorting in the prisoner's dilemma possible?

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The effect of relative payoffs on cooperation rates in assigned prisoner's dilemma game is examined by comparing various auction treatments.

Author: Bohnet, Iris, Kubler, Dorothea
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Publication Name: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0167-2681
Year: 2005
Science & research, Auctions

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