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Gender Differences in Altruism on Mechanical Turk : Expectations and Actual Behaviour

Brañas-Garza, Pablo - 2018

Whether or not there are gender differences in altruistic behaviour in Dictator Game experiments has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Earlier studies found women to be more altruistic than men. However, this conclusion has been challenged by more recent accounts, which have...

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Risking Your Life Without a Second Thought : Intuitive Decision-Making and Extreme Altruism

Rand, David G.; Epstein, Ziv - 2014

-stakes extreme altruism may be largely motivated by automatic, intuitive processes …

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Altruism, Equity, and Reciprocity in a Gift Exchange Experiment : An Encompassing Approach

Charness, Gary; Haruvy, Ernan - 2000

economic contexts. Recent models of non-pecuniary motives can be classified as either altruism- based, equity-based, or …

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On the evolution of preferences

Gamba, Astrid - 2011

behavior, non-selfish preferences may be evolutionarily successful. -- evolution of preferences ; altruism ; learning ; self …

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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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Dynasties and destiny : on the roles of altruism and impatience in the evolution of consumption and bequests

Stark, Oded; Falk, Ita - 2000

We study the joint role of altruism and impatience, and the impact of evolution in the formation of long-term time … relate to altruism and to impatience and we reason that long-lived dynasties will be characterized by a higher degree of … altruism and a lower degree of impatience than short-lived dynasties. -- altruism ; impatience ; intergenerational transfers …

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Cooperation, motivation and social balance

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

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

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....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414267

The Bonus-Income Donation Norm

Drouvelis, Michalis - 2019

Can social norms affect fundamental patterns of behavior such as income effects? Studies of determinants of giving to charities and other individuals yield a wide range of income-effect estimates. We conduct two experiments to first test whether the effect of income on charitable giving depends...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858205

Altruism and Egoism in Investment Decisions

Brodback, Daniel - 2018

We provide survey evidence that personal values have an impact on individual investment decisions, in particular the decision to invest socially responsible. Our findings show that there is a positive link between altruistic values and the relative importance of social responsibility. This...

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