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Corrupted by algorithms? : how AI-generated and human-written advice shape (dis)honesty

Leib, Margarita; Köbis, Nils; Rilke, Rainer Michael; … - 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly becomes an indispensable advisor. New ethical concerns arise if AI persuades people to behave dishonestly. In an experiment, we study how AI advice (generated by a Natural-Language-processing algorithm) affects (dis)honesty, compare it to equivalent...

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Christianity and infant health in India

Menon, Nidhiya; McQueeney, Kathleen - 2015

scientific underpinnings of disease, the advent of Christianity has long-term health implications for India's children today. …

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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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The effect of behavioral codes and gender on honesty

Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Siniver, Erez; Tobol, Yossi - 2014

We examine the effect of adherence to behavioral codes, as measured by the degree of religiosity, on the level of honesty by conducting under-the-cup die experiments. The findings suggest that behavioral codes, which prohibit lying, offset the monetary incentive to lie. The highest level of...

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Whistle-blower protection : theory and experimental evidence

Mechtenberg, Lydia; Mühlheußer, Gerd; Roider, Andreas - 2017

issues in a theory-guided lab experiment. Easily attainable ("belief-based") protection indeed leads to more reports, both …

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Homo moralis : personal characteristics, institutions, and moral decision-making

Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Szech, Nora - 2016

This paper studies how individual characteristics, institutions, and their interaction influence moral decisions. We validate a moral paradigm focusing on the willingness to accept harming third parties. Consequences of moral decisions are real. We explore how moral behavior varies with...

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Where to look for the morals in markets?

Sutter, Matthias; Huber, Jürgen; Kirchler, Michael; … - 2016

Markets are ubiquitous in our daily life and, despite many imperfections, they are a great source of human welfare. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact, competitive pressure on markets may create strong...

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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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The economic approach to personality, character and virtue

Heckman, James J.; Galaty, Bridget; Tian, Haihan - 2023

economics of virtue ethics. Character traits and personality are not considered immutable in either field. They are shaped by … content to virtue ethics and suggest what virtue ethics contributes to the study of economic models. …

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Religion in economic history: a survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms … -Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up to WWII. Works on Judaism address Jewish occupational specialization …

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