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This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....
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This study analyzes the stability of preferences through the lens of psychological motives. We report the results of a public goods experiment in which subjects were induced with the motives of Care and Anger through autobiographical recall. Subjects' preferences, beliefs, and perceptions under...
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This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....
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Empathy is considered a virtue, yet fails in many situations, leading to a basic question: when given a choice, do people avoid empathy? And if so, why? Whereas past work has focused on material and emotional costs of empathy, here we examined whether people experience empathy as cognitively...
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This dissertation studies the role of social contexts for prosocial behavior. Motivated by insights from psychology, preferences are assumed to be context-sensitive. The extent to which individuals are prosocial depends therefore on the social and economic context. This dissertation investigates...
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motivation crowding. In particular, we analyze how various governmental interventions affect the agent's motivation to assume … moral responsibility. Employing a motivation-crowding model, we find that morally motivated behavior will, in general, not … ensure Pareto efficiency without intervention. A Pigouvian tax may be efficient under motivation crowding. But the efficient …
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We investigate the effect of reputational motivation on output in a scenario of overprovision of medical treatment. We … greedy. We show that better reputational motivation unambiguously reduces the costs of healthcare provision and the magnitude …Wir untersuchen den Effekt von Motivation durch Reputation in einem Szenario der Überversorgung von medizinischen …
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