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What's important for you in life? A general and pluralistic model of economic agents’ motivation

Zibell, Laurent - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 40 (2011) 5, pp. 503-515

-interest and a generic altruism. It addresses the potential weakness of ‘altruism’ theories that the number of ‘others’ claiming …

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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment

Batista, Catia; Silverman, Dan; Yang, Dean - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 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 versus selfish behavior: Evidence for the role of self-control

Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian Ove R.; Wollbrant, … - European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) - 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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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment

Batista, Catia; Silverman, Dan; Yang, Dean - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013

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Sex differences in psychological factors associated with social discounting

Olson, Elizabeth A.; Rosso, Isabelle M.; Demers, Lauren A. - In: Journal of behavioral decision making 29 (2016) 1, pp. 60-66

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Cross-dynastic intergenerational altruism

Nesje, Frikk - 2022

cross-dynastic intergenerational altruism, saving for one’s descendants benefits present members of other dynasties. These …

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Social discounting rate is negatively correlated with fluid intelligence

Osiński, Jerzy; Ostaszewski, Paweł; Karbowski, Adam - 2014

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 - 2015

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 increase...

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Cross-dynastic intergenerational altruism

Nesje, Frikk - 2020 - This version: February 27, 2020

-dynastic intergenerational altruism, savings for one's own descendants benefit present members of other dynasties, giving rise to preference …-dynastic intergenerational altruism. I also show that the external effect of present saving decreases over time. This means that intertemporal … preferences inferred from saving behavior are time-inconsistent, unless cross-dynastic intergenerational altruism is accounted for. …

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A social discounting model based on Tsallis’ statistics

Takahashi, Taiki - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 389 (2010) 17, pp. 3600-3603

Social decision making (e.g. social discounting and social preferences) has been attracting attention in economics, econophysics, social physics, behavioral psychology, and neuroeconomics. This paper proposes a novel social discounting model based on the deformed algebra developed in the...

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