When social preferences and anxiety drive behavior and vasopressin does not – An neuroeconomic analysis of vasopressin and the Hawk-Dove game –

Claudia Brunnlieb (), Stephan Schosser () and Bodo Vogt ()
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Claudia Brunnlieb: Institute of Social Medicine and Health Economics, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Stephan Schosser: Faculty of Economics and Management, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Bodo Vogt: Faculty of Economics and Management, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

No 150012, FEMM Working Papers from Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Faculty of Economics and Management

Abstract: We delineated the causal influence of vasopressin on behavior in an iterated Hawk-Dove game. While subjects treated with vasopressin tend to be more aggressive in response to group members who did not coordinate on equilibrium instantaneously, this effect vanishes as soon as the subjects reach an equilibrium. More than vasopressin, social preferences and trait anxiety of the subjects predict the observed behavior.

Keywords: Hawk-Dove game; anti-coordination game; neuroeconomic experiment; vasopressin; psychological aspects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C92 D03 D87 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 7 pages
Date: 2015-07
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