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Choosing what is morally right can be based on the consequences (ends) resulting from the decision - the 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...
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behavioral patterns in the combined domain and is the first to disentangle elementary attitudes on risk, altruism, social …We present a theoretical framework to study risk and other-regarding preferences. The model can explain the main … model, most subjects significantly alter their risk attitudes due to ex-post inequality concerns; and exhibit ex …
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Combining a standard measure of concern about low relative wealth and a standard measure of relative risk aversion … leads to a novel explanation of variation in risk-taking behavior identified and documented by social psychologists and … individual’s relative risk aversion decreases when he becomes more relatively deprived as a result of an increase in the average …
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about risk, time-discounting and altruism in variations of two conditions: 'Quantitative First' and 'Qualitative First'. We … patience and altruism while using quantitative items first increases the cross-method correlation for risk and time preferences …
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Among residents of an informal housing area in Cairo, we examine how dictator giving varies by the social distance between subjects - friend versus stranger - and by the anonymity of the dictator. While giving to strangers is high under anonymity, we find - consistent with Leider et al. (2009) -...
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Among residents of an informal housing area in Cairo, we examine how dictator giving varies by the social distance between subjects - friend versus stranger - and by the anonymity of the dictator. While giving to strangers is high under anonymity, we find - consistent with Leider et al. (2009) -...
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experiments. Contrary to the traditional view of expected utility theory, the choices can be explained in large part by previous … outcomes experienced during the game. Risk aversion decreases after earlier expectations have been shattered by unfavorable … outcomes or surpassed by favorable outcomes. Our results point to reference-dependent choice theories such as prospect theory …
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We test the proposition that individuals may experience a self-control conflict between short-term temptation to be selfish and better judgment to act pro-socially. Using a dictator game and a public goods game, we manipulated the likelihood that individuals identified self-control conflict, and...
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Charitable donations provide positive externalities and can potentially be increased with an understanding of donor preferences. We obtain a uniquely comprehensive characterization of donation motives using an experiment that varies treatments between and within subject. Donations are increasing...
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Risk is one of the key aspects in financial decision-making and therefore an integral part of the behavioral economics … and finance literature. Focusing on the conceptualization of the term "risk", which researchers have addressed from … numerous angles, this comment aims to offer a critical perspective on the interactions between risk preferences (a latent trait …
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