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has moral preferences with a morality parameter equal to the level of assortment - is evolutionarily stable, while … leads to the evolution of moral or altruistic preferences. Their central result states that Homo Hamiltonenis - a type that …
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have a long-evolved and biologically-inherited basis. The social role of morality and its difference with altruism is … contained a powerful argument that morality has evolved in humans by natural selection. Essentially this stance is supported by … modern research. This paper considers the nature of morality and how it has evolved. It reconciles Darwin’s notion that a …
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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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Choosing what is morally right can be based on the consequences (ends) resulting from the decision - the Consequentialist view - or on the conformity of the means involved with some overarching notion of duty - the Deontological view. Using a series of experiments, we investigate the overall...
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Within a general equilibrium model, this paper identifies a novel animal welfare externality that occurs if the private animal friendliness in a market economy falls short of the social animal friendliness used by the social planner when determining the efficient allocation. The animal welfare...
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and effort choices, in these three jobs, to preferences for altruism and morality that are structurally estimated. The … predictions are tested in pre-registered experiments. We also estimate proxies for altruism/morality from the dictator … corrupt public sector job. The effects of altruism on occupational choice are subtle, but altruism positively influences the …
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