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Differences in social preferences : are they profitable for the firm?
Küpper, Hans-Ulrich; Sandner, Kai - 2008
This paper analyzes the impact of heterogeneous (social) preferences on the weighting and combination of performance measures as well as on a firm's profitability. We consider rivalry, egoism and altruism as extreme forms within the continuum of possible preferences and show that the principal...
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Do reciprocators exploit or resist moral wiggle room? : an experimental analysis
Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2015
By now there is substantial experimental evidence that people make use of "moral wiggle room" (Dana et al., 2007), that is, they tend to exploit moral excuses for selfish behavior. However, this evidence is limited to dictator games. In our experiment, a trust game variant, we study whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446176
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Reciprocity under moral wiggle room : is it a preference or a constraint?
Regner, Tobias - 2016
We analyze reciprocal behavior when moral wiggle room exists. Dana et al. (2007) show that giving in a dictator game is only partly due to distributional preferences as the giving rate drops when situational excuses for selfish behavior are provided. Our binary trust game closely follows their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576929
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Charitable giving among females and males: An empirical test of the competitive altruism hypothesis
Böhm, Robert; Regner, Tobias - 2012
We conduct a real-effort task experiment where subjects' performance translates into a donation to a charity. In a within-subjects design we vary the visibility of the donation (no/private/public feedback). Confirming previous studies, we find that subjects' performance increases, that is, they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291810
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Stochastic income and conditional generosity
Kellner, Christian; Reinstein, David; Riener, Gerhard - 2015
; theories of affect predict the reverse. In field and lab experiments, we allow people to donate from lottery winnings, varying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346238
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The many faces of human sociality : uncovering the distribution and stability of social preferences
Bruhin, Adrian; Fehr, Ernst; Schunk, Daniel - 2016
There is vast heterogeneity in the human willingness to weigh others' interests in decision making. This heterogeneity raises the question how one can parsimoniously model and characterize heterogeneity across several dimensions of social preferences while still being able to predict behavior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421679
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That's just - not fair : gender differences in notions of justice
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2015
In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination … experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences for giving and notions of justice in experiments using the same … men and women in dictator experiments are explained by differences in their notion of justice and not by different levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339883
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That's just : not fair ; gender differences in notions of justice
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2015
In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination … experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences for giving and notions of justice in experiments using the same … men and women in dictator experiments are explained by differences in their notion of justice and not by different levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327335
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Social preferences under uncertainty
Gaudeul, Alexia - 2013
Willingness to take risk depends on whether the risk affects others as well as oneself and on how the risk affects oneś position vis-á-vis others. Taking a bet can improve oneś position relative to others or threaten it. We present an experiment that explores individual attitudes to lotteries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784058
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Revealed notions of distributive justice II : experimental evidence
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013
experiments by a combination of selfishness and concerns for distributive justice. Most participants conform very well with the … therefore demonstrates that most participants' behaviour in dictator experiments can be explained by a combination of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370990