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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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problem as well as in a real payoff money-burning experiment that can inform our understanding of moral preferences and …
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-control problems, moral values may increase individual material welfare (and utility) by serving as a self-commitment device. The model … sanctions and moral self-punishment and the spread and strength of individually optimal moral values. The empirical analysis …
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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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This paper studies the long‐term impact of societal socialization on values using the example of doping behavior in sports. We apply the German Reunification Approach to the microcosm of Berlin and exploit its 40‐year long division into a capitalist and a communist sector. We deliberately...
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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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. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact … competitiveness. While markets have been considered as detrimental for moral behavior, it has turned out a challenging task to … identify where moral behavior is reflected in a market. Recent work has suggested that falling prices in markets with …
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We conduct an experiment where subjects are matched in groups of three and vote on a moral transgression. Analyzing … different voting rules, the frequency of votes for the moral transgression increases with the number of votes required for it …. This effect persists when considering pivotal votes only, which eliminates opportunities to save on own moral costs and to …
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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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