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Ends versus means : kantians, utilitarians, and moral decisions
Bénabou, Roland; Falk, Armin; Henkel, Luca - 2024
Choosing what is morally right can be based on the consequences (ends) resulting from the decision – the 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014461859
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Ends versus means : Kantians, utilitarians, and moral decisions
Bénabou, Roland; Falk, Armin; Henkel, Luca - 2024 - This version: January 15, 2024
Choosing what is morally right can be based on the consequences (ends) resulting from the decision - the 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014465011
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Modeling strong reciprocity
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs - In: Moral sentiments and material interests : the …, (pp. 193-214). 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003048930
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Psychological foundations of incentives
Fehr, Ernst; Falk, Armin - 2002
During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organisations …. Yet, they constrained their attention to a very narrow and empirically questionable view of human motivation. The purpose … of this paper is to show that this narrow view of human motivation may severely limit understanding the determinants and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409795
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Preferences for Consistency
Falk, Armin; Zimmermann, Florian - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
principal-agent experiment that shows that consistency is valued by others and thatthis value is anticipated. The second … experiment underlines the crucial role of earlycommitment for consistency preferences. Finally we show how preferences for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009347594
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Preferences for consistency
Falk, Armin; Zimmermann, Florian - 2011
principal-agent experiment that shows that consistency is valued by others and that this value is anticipated. The second … experiment underlines the crucial role of early commitment for consistency preferences. Finally we show how preferences for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310996
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Preferences for consistency
Falk, Armin; Zimmermann, Florian - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317571
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Preferences for consistency
Falk, Armin; Zimmermann, Florian - 2011
principal-agent experiment that shows that consistency is valued by others and that this value is anticipated. The second … experiment underlines the crucial role of early commitment for consistency preferences. Finally we show how preferences for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009240883
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The formation of prosociality : causal evidence on the role of social environment
Kosse, Fabian; Deckers, Thomas; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2016
This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socio-economic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers’ prosocial attitudes are systematically related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455853
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The formation of prosociality : causal evidence on the role of social environment
Kosse, Fabian; Deckers, Thomas; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2016
This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socio-economic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011477514