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Cooperation, motivation and social balance

Bosworth, Steven; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

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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The influence of induced care and anger motives on behavior, beliefs and perceptions in a public goods game

Bartke, Simon; Bosworth, Steven; Snower, Dennis J.; … - 2016

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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Motivations to volunteer and their associations with volunteers' well-being

Stukas, Arthur A.; Hoye, Russell; Nicholson, Matthew; … - In: Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly 45 (2016) 1, pp. 112-132

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Cooperation, motivation and social balance

Bosworth, Steven; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452082

On the compatibility of benevolence and self-interest : philanthropy and entrepreneurial orientation

Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Sauka, Arnis; Stephan, Ute - In: International small business journal : researching … 34 (2016) 3, pp. 303-328

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Empathy is a choice : people are empathy misers because they are cognitive misers

Cameron, C. Daryl; Hutcherson, Cendri A.; Ferguson, … - 2016

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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Motivations for peer-support volunteering : social identities and role-identities as sources of motivation

Thoits, Peggy A. - In: Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly : journal of … 50 (2021) 4, pp. 797-815

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Essays on social contexts for prosocial behavior

Gelhaar, Felix - 2019

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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Regulation of morally responsible agents with motivation crowding

Fünfgelt, Joachim; Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2012

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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A Price is a signal: on intrinsic motivation and crowding-out

Bolle, Friedel - 2007

If a previously unpaid activity (donating blood) is paid then we often observe that this activity is reduced. In this paper, it is hypothesised that the price offered is taken as a proxy for the "market value" of the activity. Depending on how the actor valued the activity previously,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297251

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