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Evolutionary Stability of Preferences : Altruism, Selfishness and Envy

Park, Sung-Hoon - 2020

preferences of players are classified into three types: altruism, selfishness, and envy. In the stage game, players compete in … complements, envy is strictly dominated, whereas altruism is strictly dominated if efforts are strategic substitutes, implying …

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Envy and Altruism : Contrasting Bivariate and Univariate Prospect Preferences

Kaplanski, Guy - 2015

The effect of envy and altruism on investment choices is analyzed by employing utility-free bivariate First …-degree Stochastic Dominance (FSD) rule. Using the classic expected utility as the benchmark we find that envy or altruism may induce … an FSD inferior prospect may be selected inducing expected utility loss. Surprisingly, not only envy but also altruism …

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Altruism and Envy in Contests : An Evolutionarily Stable Symbiosis

Konrad, Kai A. - 2021

Altruists and envious people who meet in contests are symbionts. They do better than a population of narrowly rational …

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Keeping the Joneses from getting ahead in the first place : envy's influence on gift giving behavior

Givi, Julian; Galak, Jeff - In: Journal of business research : JBR 101 (2019), pp. 375-388

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Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society

Kingdon, Geeta; Knight, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

Using a South African data set, the paper poses six questions about the determinants of subjective well-being. Much of the paper is concerned with the role of relative concepts. We find that comparator income – measured as average income of others in the local residential cluster - enters the...

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The Desire to Influence Others

Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Schröder, Marina - Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaft, … - 2012

We introduce the give-or-destroy game that allows us to fully elicit an individual's social preference schedule. We find that about one third of the population exhibits both pro-social and anti-social preferences that are independent of payoff comparisons with those who are affected. We call...

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Envy Reduction in Economics : Equity, Altruism and 'Cultural Group Selection'

Tucci, Gianrocco - 2004

to spread group-beneficial cultural traits - such as altruism considered here as the opposite of envy - through …This paper develops a set of arguments for envy reduction within economics and tries to show that, if humans possess a …

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Inequality and Procedural Fairness in a Money Burning and Stealing Experiment

Zizzo, Daniel John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2003

This paper presents the results of an experiment where an unequal wealth distribution was created and then subjects could act to change this wealth distribution. Subjects received money by betting and possibly by arbitrary (undeserved) gifts; they could then pay to reduce, redistribute and, in...

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To Give or Not To Give? Equity, Efficiency and Altruistic Behavior in a Survey-Based Experiment

Pelligra, V.; Stanca, L. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2010

This paper presents the results of a survey-based experiment on the role of equity and efficiency for altruistic behavior. Using simple binary decisions for a representative pool of subjects, we find that both equity and efficiency are relevant for the decision to give. However, contrary to the...

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To Give or Not To Give? Equity, Efficiency and Altruistic Behavior in a Survey-Based Experiment

Pelligra, Vittorio; Stanca, Luca - Dipartimento di Economia, Metodi Quantitativi e … - 2010

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