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Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001

This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by the intention underlying this action. The theory...

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Social preferences under risk : ex-post fairness vs. efficiency

Gaudeul, Alexia - 2015

Social lotteries are lotteries that are played along with someone else. The experimental literature indicates that risk attitudes depend on how one’s situation in the safe alternative compares to that of a peer. Evaluation of the risky alternative also depends on whether the lottery gives...

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The bonus-income donation norm

Drouvelis, Michalis; Isen, Adam; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2019

the effects by income source can be explained by social norms. Our first experiment induces random variation in both … earned income and windfall bonuses and shows that only bonuses increases charitable donations. The second experiment uses an … elicited in the second experiment match the donation patterns in the first experiment both overall and across subject …

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Ends versus means : Kantians, utilitarians, and moral decisions

Bénabou, Roland; Falk, Armin; Henkel, Luca - 2024 - This version: January 15, 2024

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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The role of equality and efficiency in social preferences

Fehr, Ernst; Naef, Michael; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2004

Engelmann and Strobel (AER 2004) claim that a combination of efficiency seeking and minmax preferences dominates inequity aversion in simple dictator games. This result relies on a strong subject pool effect. The participants of their experiments were undergraduate students of economics and...

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Letting off steam! : experimental evidence on inappropriate punishment

Khachatryan, Elina; Bühren, Christoph - 2020

Aggression is displaced when provocations cannot be directly retaliated against and when it is redirected towards a target innocent of any wrongdoing. While this phenomenon is widespread, it has not been widely explored in experimental economics. We fill this gap and find that a sizeable...

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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

public goods experiment in which subjects were induced with the motives of Care and Anger through autobiographical recall …

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Revealed notions of distributive justice I : theory

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013

We provide a framework to decompose preferences into a notion of distributive justice and a selfishness part and to recover individual notions of distributive justice from data collected in appropriately designed experiments. "Dictator games" with varying transfer rates used in Andreoni and...

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Revealed notions of distributive justice I : theory

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013

We provide a framework to decompose preferences into a notion of distributive justice and a selfishness part and to recover individual notions of distributive justice from data collected in appropriately designed experiments. “Dictator games” with varying transfer rates used in Andreoni and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010192945

Social preferences under uncertainty

Gaudeul, Alexia - 2013

position vis-á-vis others. Taking a bet can improve oneś position relative to others or threaten it. We present an experiment …

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