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Image versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy
Ali, S. Nageeb; Benabou, Roland - 2016
We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public-spiritedness, private signal about the value of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494319
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Cooperation, Motivation and Social Balance
Bosworth, Steven J.; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479221
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Enforcement of contribution norms in public good games with heterogeneous populations
Reuben, Ernesto; Riedl, Arno - 2009
heterogeneous groups. When punishment is not allowed all groups converge towards free-riding. With punishment, contributions … that these differences are not accidental but enforced by punishment. The enforced contribution norms are related to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269498
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Enforcement of Contribution Norms in Public Good Games with Heterogeneous Populations
Reuben, Ernesto; Riedl, Arno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
heterogeneous groups. When punishment is not allowed all groups converge towards free-riding. With punishment, contributions … that these differences are not accidental but enforced by punishment. The enforced contribution norms are related to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005002828
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Emotions, sanctions and cooperation
Joffily, Mateus; Masclet, David; Noussair, Charles N.; … - 2011
We use skin conductance responses and self-reports of hedonic valence to study the emotional basis of cooperation and … punishment in a social dilemma. Emotional reaction to free-riding incites individuals to apply sanctions when they are available …. The application of sanctions activates a virtuous emotional circle that accompanies cooperation. Emotionally aroused …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278702
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Emotions, Sanctions and Cooperation
Joffily, Mateus; Masclet, David; Noussair, Charles N.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We use skin conductance responses and self-reports of hedonic valence to study the emotional basis of cooperation and … punishment in a social dilemma. Emotional reaction to free-riding incites individuals to apply sanctions when they are available …. The application of sanctions activates a "virtuous emotional circle" that accompanies cooperation. Emotionally aroused …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876559
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Caste and punishment: the legacy of caste culture in norm enforcement
Hoff, Karla Ruth; Kshetramade, Mayuresh; Fehr, Ernst - 2009
hierarchy - the caste system - affects individuals' willingness to punish violations of a cooperation norm. Although we control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269625
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Caste and Punishment: The Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement
Hoff, Karla; Kshetramade, Mayuresh; Fehr, Ernst - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
hierarchy – the caste system – affects individuals' willingness to punish violations of a cooperation norm. Although we control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976904
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Incentives and prosocial behavior
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2005
We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or image-related) create doubt about the true motive for which good deeds are performed and this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267545
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Fighting Climate Change: The Role of Norms, Preferences, and Moral Values
Andre, Peter; Boneva, Teodora; Chopra, Felix; Falk, Armin - 2021
We document individual willingness to fight climate change and its behavioral determinants in a large representative sample of US adults. Willingness to fight climate change – as measured through an incentivized donation decision – is highly heterogeneous across the population. Individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658097