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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 …
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This paper studies the dynamic effect of observability on prosocial behavior. We hypothesize a twofold positive effect …, we find only weak positive effects of observability on first-stage prosocial behavior and no effects on second …-stage prosocial behavior. …
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In prosocial decisions, decision-makers are inherently uncertain about how their decisions impact others’ utility – we … of prosocial behavior. First, using standard social allocation decisions, we replicate the classic patterns of ingroup … predicts behavior in both situations. Moreover, exogenously varying interpersonal uncertainty shifts prosocial behavior in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576953
The conflict between pro-self and pro-social behaviour is at the core of many key problems of our time, as, for example … crucial to find mechanisms to promote pro-social choices over egoistic ones. Particularly important, because cheap and easy to …) can promote pro-social behaviour. However, little is known about whether their effect persists over time and spills across …
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We extend the literature structurally estimating social preferences by accounting for the desire to adhere to social norms. Our representative agent is strongly motivated by norms and failing to account for this causes us to overestimate how much agents care about helping those who are worse...
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People use moral wiggle room to behave selfish. But does a narrow wiggle room necessarily produce better social outcomes? When people disagree on normative goals, economic theories of self-image predict that narrowing the moral wiggle room will make choices not only less selfish but also even...
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A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. Behavior in a laboratory experiment suggests that …
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Much is known about heterogeneity in social preferences and about heterogeneity in lying aversion - but little is known about the relation between the two at the individual level. Are the altruists simply up- right persons who do not only care about the well-being of others but also about...
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In prosocial decisions, decision-makers are inherently uncertain about how their decisions impact others' utility - we … of prosocial behavior. First, using standard social allocation decisions, we replicate the classic patterns of ingroup … predicts behavior in both situations. Moreover, exogenously varying interpersonal uncertainty shifts prosocial behavior in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014578386
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468273