Consequentialist view - or on the conformity of the means involved with some overarching notion of duty - the Deontological view. Using … a series of experiments, we investigate the overall prevalence and the consistency of consequentialist and deontological … supplemented with six classical self-versus-other choice tasks, allowing us to relate consequential/deontological behavior to …

laboratory experiment to cleanly fix beliefs about the person's likelihood of being pivotal in reaching a donation threshold that … prosocial behavior …

We empirically test an information economics based theory of social preferences in which ego utility and self … a large price discount for the good. The combined evidence supports the self-signaling theory whereby price discounts … crowd out a consumer's self-inference of altruism from buying a good bundled with a charitable donation. Alternative …

.g., discounting, risk aversion and altruism) and most cultural traits, social norms, and ideological tenets ( e.g., attitudes towards …

are characterized by multifaceted social preferences, encompassing reciprocity, altruism, and inequality aversion …

find consistent evidence that children from treatment and spillover groups are more or less prosocial than children from …

We present evidence from a natural field experiment involving nearly 100,000 individuals on the effects of offering … these findings for understanding pro-social behavior …

Despite extensive use of bargaining models in economics and despite Becker's insistence on the importance of altruism … in families, the theoretical literature on bargaining ignores altruism and assumes that everyone is an egoist. This paper … shows that incorporating altruism into cooperative bargaining models shrinks the set potential cooperative bargaining …