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received little empirical scrutiny. Using Internet donations after the 2004 tsunami as a case study, we show that media …
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Social preferences such as altruism, reciprocity, intrinsic motivation and a desire to uphold ethical norms are …
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Social preferences such as altruism, reciprocity, intrinsic motivation and a desire to uphold ethical norms are …
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One lingering puzzle is why voluntary contributions to public goods decline over time in experimental and real-world settings. We show that the decline of cooperation is driven by individual preferences for imperfect conditional cooperation. Many people's desire to contribute less than others,...
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influences of altruism and bravery in the evolution of heroism. Our study found that females do prefer risk-prone brave males to … factor influencing female choice of short-term partners, long-term partners, and male friends, with altruism playing a lesser … part in their choice. Altruism was deemed important in long-term relationships and friendships, but for short-term liaisons …
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Resource transfers among households have received considerable interest among economists in recent years. Two of the main reasons for the surge of interest in household transfers are the information on human nature conveyed by transfer behavior and the implication on income redistribution policy...
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Two books edited by members of the MacArthur Norms and Preferences Network (an interdisciplinary group, mainly anthropologists and economists) are reviewed here. These books in large part reflect a renewed interest in group selectionthat has occurred among these researchers: they promote the...
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altruism, and (3) the possibility of sustained mutual cooperation in finitely repeated social dilemmas is affected by the …
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across individuals. In the research reported here, we examine two models of heterogeneous utility, linear-altruism and …
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