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We show that temporally distancing the decision task from the payment of the reward increases honest behavior. Each of 427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory military service rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the outcome to the unit's cadet coordinator. For every point...
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Using a real-effort experiment, we study whether group identity affects unethical behavior in a contest game. We vary whether minimal group identity is induced or not, whether individuals have to report their own outcome or the outcome of their competitor, and whether pairs of competitors share...
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We present a framework that incorporates both moral motivations and fairness considerations into utility. The main idea … moral norms. In our model, we assume that moral motivation is conditional and may be influenced by others' actions …. Specifically, in our framework moral obligation is a combination of two main components: an autonomous component and a social …
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degree of moral behavior when subjects make decisions that can generate negative externalities on uninvolved parties … different interventions to a kind of robustness check. We find that the threat of monetary punishment promotes moral behavior in …
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This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for …
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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 individual characteristics and how these characteristics interact with market …
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This paper studies the causal effect of status differences on moral disengagement and violence. To measure violent …
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difficulty is the conflict between certain moral intuitions and analytical results identifying requirements for rational (in the … relevant. Each experiment shows evidence (among at least some participants) of dual-process moral reasoning, in which cognitive … between moral mathematics and population intuition …
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We compare social preference and social norm based explanations for peer effects in a three-person gift-exchange game experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who then make effort choices sequentially. In our baseline treatment we observe that the second...
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"community standards" are also what shapes social judgements and moral sentiments. Setting law thus means both imposing material …
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