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Social preferences and lying aversion in children
Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2013
of children aged between 7 and 14, we find strong aversion to lying at all ages. Lying is driven mainly by selfish … motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others … at no monetary cost. Older children lie less than younger children and require more self-justification to lie. …
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Social Preferences and Lying Aversion in Children
Maggian, Valeria - 2015
of children aged between 7 and 14, we find strong aversion to lying at all ages. Lying is driven mainly by selfish … motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others … at no monetary cost. Older children lie less than younger children and require more self justification to lie …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034454
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Social Preferences and Lying Aversion in Children
Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2014
of children aged between 7 and 14, we find strong aversion to lying at all ages. Lying is driven mainly by selfish … motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others … at no monetary cost. Older children lie less than younger children and require more self-justification to lie …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014150727
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Crime and self-control revisited : disentangling the effect of self-control on risk and social preferences
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014
In economic models, risk and social preferences are major determinants of criminal behavior. In criminology, low self-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. Relating the arguments from both disciplines, this paper studies the relationship between self-control and both risk and...
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Does revealing personality data affect prosocial behavior?
Drouvelis, Michalis; Georgantzís, Nikolaos - 2019
Many modern organisations collect data on individuals' personality traits as part of their human resource selection processes. We test experimentally whether revealing information on personality data impacts on pro-social behaviour as measured in a one-shot modified dictator game and a public...
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Chapter 7 The Formation of Social Preferences: Some Lessons from Psychology and Biology
Lvy-Garboua, Louis; Meidinger, Claude; Rapoport, Benot - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 545-613). 2006
The goal of this paper is to draw some lessons for economic theory from research in psychology, social psychology and, more briefly, in biology, which purports to explain the formation of social preferences. We elicit the basic mechanisms whereby a variety of social preferences are determined in...
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Chapter 10. Lab in the Field : Measuring Preferences in the Wild
Gneezy, U.; Imas, A. - 2017
In this chapter, we discuss the “lab-in-the-field” methodology, which combines elements of both lab and field experiments in using standardized, validated paradigms from the lab in targeting relevant populations in naturalistic settings. We begin by examining how the methodology has been...
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Do the altruists lie less?
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel; Gruber, Alexander - 2017
Much is known about heterogeneity in social preferences and about heterogeneity in lying aversion - but little is known about the relation between the two at the individual level. Are the altruists simply up- right persons who do not only care about the well-being of others but also about...
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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence : a large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin; … - 2010 - This version: 15 June 2010
present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions … and across gender. Our results show that when children and teenagers grow older, inequality aversion becomes a gradually … boys, and maximin-preferences turn more important in shaping decisions of girls. -- social preferences ; children ; age …
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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence : a large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008658544