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Dark versus light personality types and moral choice

Dickinson, David L. - 2023

, participants completed 3 tasks of interest that contribute to an understanding or one's ethics: a task assessing prosociality, a …

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Incorporating conditional morality into economic decisions

Masclet, David; Dickinson, David L. - 2019

We present a framework that incorporates both moral motivations and fairness considerations into utility. The main idea is that individuals face a preference trade-off between their material individual interest and their desire to follow moral norms. In our model, we assume that moral motivation...

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Unethical decision making and sleep restriction: experimental evidence

Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David - 2021

Recent examinations into the cognitive underpinnings of ethical decision making has focused on understanding whether honesty is more likely to result from deliberative or unconscious decision processes. We randomly assigned participants to a multi-night sleep manipulation, after which they...

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Using ethical dilemmas to predict antisocial choices with real payoff consequences : an experimental study

Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David - 2018

Anti-social behaviours are costly to organizations, and the ability to identify predictors of such behaviours can be valuable. In this paper, we used a within-subjects laboratory design to study choices in the well-known (hypothetical) Trolley problem as well as in a real payoff money-burning...

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Personality, weak signals, and workplace relevant morality

Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David - 2024

Employers use applicant signals to help solve an asymmetric information problem in organizations. In this paper, we examine the impact of validated Dark versus Light personality traits on incentivized behaviors important to organizations: task effort, honesty, and reciprocity. A second study...

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Health and the political agency of women

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma - 2011

public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … in women's political representation results in a 1.5 percentage point reduction in neonatal mortality. Women politicians …. The results are topical given that a bill proposing quotas for women in state assemblies is currently pending in the …

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Path-breakers : how does women's political participation respond to electoral success?

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer - 2013

This paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the … regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman … subsequent election. This stems mainly from an increased probability that previous women candidates contest again, an important …

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Religion and abortion : the role of politician identity

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer - 2018

Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India, we find lower rates of female foeticide in districts with Muslim legislators, which we argue reflects a greater (religious) aversion to abortion among Muslims. These districts...

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