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Social norms and preferences for generosity are domain dependent
Erkut, Hande - In: Games and economic behavior 131 (2022), pp. 121-140
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Mind the framing when studying social preferences in the domain of losses
Antinyan, Armenak; Corazzini, Luca; Fišar, Miloš; … - 2022
framing on altruism. The main methodological result is that the dictators' prosocial behaviour is sensitive to the loss frame …
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Mind the framing when studying social preferences in the domain of losses
Antinyan, Armenak; Corazzini, Luca; Fišar, Miloš; … - 2022
framing on altruism. The main methodological result is that the dictators' prosocial behaviour is sensitive to the loss frame …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013484987
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The solidarity motive
Engel, Christoph - 2016
For decades, experimental economics has been very interested in behavior that could be characterized as practicing solidarity (although the term is rarely used). Solidarity is a key concept in Catholic Social Teaching. This paper builds a bridge between these two endeavors that, thus far, had...
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Ashamed to be selfish
Dillenberger, David; Sadowski, Philipp - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 7 (2012) 1, pp. 99-124
We study a decision maker (DM) who has preferences over choice problems, which are sets of payoff-allocations between herself and a passive recipient. An example of such a set is the collection of possible allocations in the classic dictator game. The choice of an allocation from the set is...
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Measuring socially appropriate social preferences
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Robbett, Andrea - 2022
We extend the literature structurally estimating social preferences by accounting for the desire to adhere to social norms. Our representative agent is strongly motivated by norms and failing to account for this causes us to overestimate how much agents care about helping those who are worse...
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Social norms and preferences for generosity are domain dependent
Erkut, Hande - 2018
Experimental research on generosity has focused predominantly on behavior in the monetary domain, although many real … life decisions take place in the non-monetary domain. Investigating generosity preferences in the non-monetary domain is … study explores whether generosity differs between the monetary and non-monetary domains and if so why. The results show that …
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More than outcomes : the role of self-image in other-regarding behavior
Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2014
We conduct a modified dictator game in order to analyze the role self-image concerns play in other-regarding behavior. While we generally follow Konow (2000), a cognitive dissonance-based model of other-regarding behavior in dictator games, we relax one of its assumptions as we allow for...
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Fairness-based altruism
Breitmoser, Yves; Vorjohann, Pauline - 2022
preferences admit a generalized prospect-theoretical utility representation reminiscent of fairnessbased altruism. As in prospect …
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Generosity across contexts
Davis, Alexander L.; Miller, John H.; Weber, Roberto A. - 2011
monetary contexts. -- Altruism ; generosity ; harm ; experiment …Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations, while generosity in non … generosity may be higher in such contexts. We compare generosity in decisions that vary whether allocations are monetary or non …
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