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The relationship between self-control and altruism in the light of discounting literature

Osiński, Jerzy; Karbowski, Adam; Rusek, Jan - In: Polish Psychological Bulletin 48 (2017) 4, pp. 433-439

On the basis of literature on delay discounting, potential mechanisms of relations between self-control and altruism … immediate benefits caused by selfish behaviour in favor of future benefits associated with altruism, e.g. reciprocation), common … self-control and altruism, and role of psychological distance (the idea of extended self and construal level theory …

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On the Economics of Others

Stark, Oded - In: Ekonomista (2013) 5, pp. 709-715

. In some contexts, these two forms of relatedness interact. Caring about others can conveniently be labeled altruism … deprivation. I provide examples of domains in which the incorporation of altruism and relative deprivation can point to novel … consideration of relative deprivation can substitute for the prevalence of altruism, and vice versa. I conclude that this is a …

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Strategic behavior of moralists and altruists

Alger, Ingela; Weibull, Jörgen W. - In: Games 8 (2017) 3, pp. 1-21

Does altruism and morality lead to socially better outcomes in strategic interactions than selfishness? We shed some … material payoff if others were to act like himself or herself. It turns out that both altruism and morality may improve or … worsen equilibrium outcomes, depending on the nature of the game. Not surprisingly, both altruism and morality improve the …

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Delaying rewards has greater effect on altruism when the beneficiary is socially distant

Osiński, Jerzy; Karbowski, Adam - In: PLoS ONE 12 (2017) 2, pp. e0170387

choices it was predicted that enhancement of altruism due to delaying rewards when choosing between a reward for oneself and …

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Social discounting rate is negatively correlated with fluid intelligence

Osiński, Jerzy; Ostaszewski, Paweł; Karbowski, Adam - In: Personality and Individual Differences 59 (2014), pp. 44-49

interpretation of the relationship between intelligence and altruism are discussed. …

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Social discounting: Choice between rewards for other people

Osiński, Jerzy; Karbowski, Adam; Ostaszewski, Paweł - In: Behavioural Processes 115 (2015) June 2015, pp. 61-63

The purpose of the present study was to test the prediction that when two rewards, a smaller but “socially closer” one and a larger but “socially more distant” one, are moved away from the subject by the same social distance, subjective value of the socially more distant reward will...

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To tender or not to tender? Deliberate and exogenous sunk costs in a public good game

Heine, Florian; Sefton, Martin - In: Games 9 (2018) 3, pp. 1-28

In an experimental study, we compare individual willingness to cooperate in a public good game after an initial team contest phase. While players in the treatment setup make a conscious decision on how much to invest in the contest, this decision is exogenously imposed on players in the control...

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Pledges of commitment and cooperation in partnerships

Deer, Lachlan; Bayer, Ralph-C. - In: Games 7 (2016) 1, pp. 1-16

We use experimental methods to investigate whether pledges of commitment can improve cooperation in endogenously-formed partnerships facing a social dilemma. Treatments vary in terms of the individual's: (1) opportunity to commit to their partner; (2) the cost of dissolving committed...

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Determinants of the possibilities by investors' risk-taking: Empirical evidence from Vietnam

Wong, Wing Keung - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-23

This paper focuses on determining the factors influencing investors' risk-taking through empirical evidence from Vietnam. This study investigates risk perception, expected return and herding behavior, and other determinants such as historical volatility and subjective financial risk attitude;...

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Choice, deferral, and consistency

Costa-Gomes, Miguel A.; Cueva, Carlos; Gerasimou, Georgios - In: Quantitative Economics 13 (2022) 3, pp. 1297-1318

We report on two novel choice experiments with real goods where subjects in one treatment are forced to choose, as is the norm in economic experiments, while in the other they are not but can instead incur a small cost to defer choice. Using a variety of measures, we find that the active choices...

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