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Strategic behavior of moralists and altruists
Alger, Ingela; Weibull, Jörgen W. - 2017
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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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Increasing Altruistic and Cooperative Behaviour with Simple Moral Nudges
Capraro, Valerio - 2019
The conflict between pro-self and pro-social behaviour is at the core of many key problems of our time, as, for example, the reduction of air pollution and the redistribution of scarce resources. For the well-being of our societies, it is thus crucial to find mechanisms to promote pro-social...
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Screening teams of moral and altruistic agents
Sarkisian, Roberto - In: Games 12 (2021) 4, pp. 1-11
This paper studies the problem of screening teams of either moral or altruistic agents, in a setting where agents choose whether or not to exert effort in order to achieve a high output for the principal. I show that there exists no separating equilibrium menu of contracts that induces the...
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Who Cooperates in Repeated Games : The Role of Altruism, Inequity Aversion, and Demographics
Dreber, Anna; Fudenberg, Drew; Rand, David G. - 2014
We explore the extent to which altruism, as measured by giving in a dictator game (DG), accounts for play in a noisy … to be the key determinant of how play varies with the parameters of the repeated game. In particular, altruism does not …
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Divided in Morals, United in Selfishness : An Experiment
Kurschilgen, Michael J. - 2020
People use moral wiggle room to behave selfish. But does a narrow wiggle room necessarily produce better social outcomes? When people disagree on normative goals, economic theories of self-image predict that narrowing the moral wiggle room will make choices not only less selfish but also even...
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Evolutionarily stable strategies, preferences and moral values, in n-player Interactions
Alger, Ingela; Weibull, Jörgen - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2014
preferences, with degree of morality equal to the index of assortativity are evolutionarily stable. In particular, selfishness is …
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Evolutionarily stable strategies, preferences and moral values, in n-player Interactions
Alger, Ingela; Weibull, Jörgen - Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST), … - 2014
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A theory of indifference based on status-seeking behaviour
Marjit, Sugata; Dastidar, Krishnendu Ghosh; Pandey, … - 2023
This paper explores the reluctance of men (women) to acknowledge or recognise the work, comments, and claims of new ideas by other men (women) via widespread and intense demonstrations of indifference. Instances like desk rejections by journals by not allowing papers to reach a review stage,...
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The Origin of Behavior
Brennan, Thomas J. - 2010
We propose a single evolutionary explanation for the origin of several behaviors that have been observed in organisms ranging from ants to human subjects, including risk-sensitive foraging, risk aversion, loss aversion, probability matching, randomization, and diversification. Given an initial...
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