Summary This work is composed of four separate essays. Chapter 2 introduces an extortive scenario into the experimental corruption literature. Chapter 3 looks at displaced aggression, using economic experimental methods. Chapter 4 introduces psychological underpinnings into the experimental economic literature on gender and competitiveness. And Chapter 5 offers a solution to a well-known problem in the cooperation literature. Chapter 2, titled “Mitigating Extortive Corruption? Experimental Evidence”, implements a ...