On the independence of history: experience spill-overs between experiments

A central understanding in experimental economics is that subjects’ decisions in the lab are independent of history. We test whether this assumption of between-experiment independence is indeed justified. We analyze experiments with an allocation decision (like a dictator or ultimatum game) and find that participation in previous experiments tends to increase the amount subjects allocate to themselves. Hence, independence between experiments cannot be presumed if subjects participate repeatedly. The finding has implications for the interpretation of previous allocation decision results and deserves attention when running future experiments.     

Where I Belong: Identification Processes of Young Volunteers in Super-Diverse Cities

VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations - In the context of super-diverse cities, scholars and policy makers are increasingly interested in the potential of...     

Growing up with parental substance use disorder: The struggle with complex emotions,regulation of contact,and lack of professional support

The aim of the study was to explore young people's perceptions and reflections about growing up with parents who have substance use disorder (SUD). In qualitative interviews with 12 young people (aged 13–26) and in an interpretative phenomenological analysis, we investigated their experiences of everyday life, of the relationships with the parents with SUD, and of conversations about this, both retrospectively and at the present. The findings indicated that the relationships with the parents largely occupied the informants, even when they lived separately from the parent and were protected from the daily exposure of substance use. The informants described their mixed and contradictory emotions towards their parents and the struggle to determine regulation and type of contact. They asked for professional support in order to help them cope with this. Sociocultural discourses concerning family life and substance use were discussed in an attempt to understand the findings. The findings of the study suggest that children and young people should be offered sufficient professional support in order to cope with their mixed and contradictory emotions and to determine the regularity and type of contact with the parents.     

Ungleichheitssemantiken im Wandel — Wahrnehmungen und Bewertungen von MigrantInnen in privaten Unternehmen

Based on theories of social inequalities and of ethnic boundaries we can conceptualise integration and disintegration of migrants and ethnic minorities not as given structures, but as interactive processes in different societal systems. Due to the specific context in every domain, specific semantics of inequality are used. In the article different semantics of inequality in the range of Austrian politics and economy are described. Based on qualitative interviews in Austrian enterprises, changes of semantics of inequality in one societal field are shown. It is stressed that in the Austrian economic domain in contrast to the domain of politics usually pragmatic semantics of inequality are used. They currently differentiate and so enhance the synchrony of different structural types of occupational integration.     

A Changing Game: Ethnicity,Gender, and Nation in the US American Soccer Film

Both sport and film play a key role in contemporary US American popular culture. They are widely regarded as legitimate carriers and formative instances of social identities such as ethnicity, gender, or nationality, and they have capitalized upon one another with increasing success. Soccer and soccer films provide a case in point, as both the sport and its treatment in US American feature films are currently undergoing a change from a rather marginal position to a somewhat secure place within the cultural mainstream. This essay analyses five recent American soccer films with a particular focus on how they frame soccer as an ethnic, gendered, and ‘national’ game in a US context.     

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