revealing of identities. Using a laboratory experiment, we implement a 20% donation share that is dependent on participants … end of the experiment leads to higher contributions to the public good. Non-parametric statistics indicate that when …

reported in the media. In a controlled and incentivized experiment, we investigate how observers rate different types of …

vivid images of the charity’s beneficiaries in order to stimulate affect. We hypothesized that the effect of an affective …

Does altruism and morality lead to socially better outcomes in strategic interactions than selfishness? We shed some … material payoff if others were to act like himself or herself. It turns out that both altruism and morality may improve or … worsen equilibrium outcomes, depending on the nature of the game. Not surprisingly, both altruism and morality improve the …

and varied in its conclusions. We then present new experimental results obtained using a coin-tossing experiment. Results …

Ethics is a field in which the gap between words and actions looms large. Game theory and the empirical methods it … comprises several illustrations of the fruitful application of this approach to ethics. …

utility is represented by a convex combination of selfish preferences and Kantian morality, or by altruism. In a moral hazard … incentives decreases with the degrees of morality and altruism displayed by the agents, thus leading to increased profits for the … high; and either the outside option for the agents is zero or the degree of morality is sufficiently low. …