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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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Directed giving : evidence from an inter-household transfer experiment
Batista, Catia; Silverman, Dan; Yang, Dean - 2013
We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. Dictators share more with counterparts when they have the option...
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Reconciling pro-social vs. selfish behavior : evidence for the role of self-control
Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian Ove R.; Wollbrant, … - 2010
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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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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On the economics of others
Stark, Oded - 2013
. 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326706
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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment
Batista, Catia; Silverman, Dan; Yang, Dean - 2013
We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. Dictators share more with counterparts when they have the option...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329041
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Reconciling Pro-Social vs. Selfish Behavior: Evidence for the Role of Self-Control
Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian Ove R.; Wollbrant, … - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352069
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852704
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Unraveling fairness in simple games? The role of empathy and theory of mind
Artinger, Florian; Exadaktylos, Filippos; Koppel, Hannes; … - 2010
Economists have been theorizing that other-regarding preferences influence decision making. Yet, what are the corresponding psychological mechanisms that inform these preferences in laboratory games? Empathy and Theory of Mind (ToM) are dispositions considered to be essential in social...
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