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Organizations, diffused pivotality and immoral outcomes
Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013
money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment … subject opts for killing. The fraction of subjects deciding to kill is higher when pivotality is diffused. The likelihood of … killing is monotone in subjective perceptions of pivotality. On an aggregate level many more mice are killed in Diffused-Pivotality …
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Too lucky to be true : fairness views under the shadow of cheating
Bortolotti, Stefania; Soraperra, Ivan; Sutter, Matthias; … - 2017
experiment, we let third parties redistribute resources between two stakeholders who could earn money either by choosing a safe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011674398
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Efficiency-morality trade-offs in repugnant transactions : a choice experiment
Elías, Julio; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2016
conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …
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Moral motive selection in the lying-dictator game
Barron, Kai; Stüber, Robert; Veldhuizen, Roel van - 2022
hypothesis using a laboratory experiment that induces a conflict between two of the most-studied moral motives: fairness and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362378
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Why people oppose trade institutions : on morality, fairness and risky actions
Hauge, Karen E.; Kverndokk, Snorre; Lange, Andreas - 2021 - This version: November 2021
from engaging in actual trade in the experiment. We show that distributional concerns primarily drive opposition to trade …
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Cognitive flexibility or moral commitment? : evidence of anticipated belief distortion
Saccardo, Silvia; Serra-Garcia, Marta - 2020
Do people anticipate the conditions that enable them to manipulate their beliefs when confronted with unpleasant information? We investigate whether individuals seek out the "cognitive flexibility" needed to distort beliefs in self-serving ways, or instead attempt to constrain it, committing to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271757
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Status inequality, moral disengagement and violence
Falk, Armin - 2017
behavior, in the experiment, a subject can inflict a painful electric shock on another subject in return for money. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700465
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The (in)elasticity of moral ignorance
Serra-Garcia, Marta; Szech, Nora - 2019
We investigate the elasticity of moral ignorance with respect to monetary incentives and social norm information. We propose that individuals suffer from higher moral costs when rejecting a certain donation, and thus pay for moral ignorance. Consistent with our model, we find significant...
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Gender differences in honesty : groups versus individuals
Mühlheußer, Gerd; Roider, Andreas; Wallmeier, Niklas - 2014
Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412393
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Can moral reminders curb corruption? : evidence from an online classroom experiment
Claus, Corinna; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Krieger, Tim - 2022
Using an incentivized online classroom experiment, we assess the effectiveness of deontological vs. consequentialist … experiment was conducted before and after the unexpected announcement by pharmaceutical companies BioNTech and Pfizer on November …
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