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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2021

This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...

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A Little Good Is Good Enough : Ethical Consumption, Cheap Excuses, and Moral Self-Licensing

Engel, Jannis - 2017

We explore the role of cheap excuses in product choice. If a product improves upon one ethically relevant dimension, agents may care less about other, completely independent ethical facets of the product. This ‘static moral self-licensing' would extend the logic of the well studied moral...

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Does Instrumental Reciprocity Crowd Out Prosocial Behavior?

Johnsen, Åshild - 2014

In repeated games, it is hard to distinguish true prosocial behavior from strategic instrumental behavior. In particular, a player does not know whether a reciprocal action is intrinsically or instrumentally motivated. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the relationship between...

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The Many Faces of Human Sociality : Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences

Bruhin, Adrian - 2016

preferences while still being able to predict behavior over time and across situations. We tackle this task with an experiment and …

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Playing with the Good Guys - A Public Good Game with Endogenous Group Formation

Brekke, Kjell Arne - 2013

In public good games, voluntary contributions tend to start off high and decline as the game is repeated. If high contributors are matched, however, contributions tend to stay high. We propose a formalization predicting that high contributors will self-select into groups committed to charitable...

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Pleasures of Skill and Moral Conduct

Falk, Armin - 2016

This paper provides controlled experimental evidence that striving for pleasures of skill can have negative moral consequences and causally reduce moral values. Subjects perform an IQ-test. They know that each correctly solved question increases the likelihood of moral transgression. In terms of...

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Impure Prosocial Motivation in Charity Provision : Warm-Glow Charities and Implications for Public Funding

Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2013

We show that warm-glow motives in provision by competing suppliers can lead to inefficient charity selection. In these situations, discretionary donor choices can promote efficient charity selection even when provision outcomes are non-verifiable. Government funding arrangements, on the other...

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Disentangling the Sources of Pro-Social Behavior in the Workplace : A Field Experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2021

This paper presents evidence from a field experiment, which aims to identify the two sources of workers’ pro …-social motivation that have been considered in the literature: action-oriented altruism and output-oriented altruism. To this end we …-oriented altruism. We then compare the latter to effort exerted in an environment where both types of altruistic preferences are …

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Of Morals, Markets and Mice : A Comment on Falk and Szech

Breyer, Friedrich; Weimann, Joachim - 2021

A recent experimental study by Falk and Szech (Science, 2013) concludes that "markets erode moral values". If this were true, economists, who have emphasized the efficiency enhancing effects of markets for centuries, would have to reconsider their judgments fundamentally. This would be no less...

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Moral Judgments in Social Dilemmas : How Bad is Free Riding?

Cubitt, Robin P.; Drouvelis, Michalis; Gaechter, Simon; … - 2021

social significance. Using insights from moral philosophy and psychology we provide an analysis of the morality of free … judgments of a free rider depend strongly on others’ behaviour; and that failing to give is condemned more strongly than …

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