Hauge, Karen Evelyn; Brekke, Kjell Arne; Johansson, … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009
We study the impact of cognitive load in dictator games to test two conflicting views of moral behavior. Are social preferences skindeep in the sense that they are the result of humans’ cognitive reasoning while the natural instinct is selfish, or is rather the natural instinct to share fairly...