We run an experiment in order to evaluate the relationship between power, or the search for power, and the degree of … altruism. In particular we experimentally tested whether an organization structured in a strictly hierarchical way was able to … reduce the degree of altruism of a group of experimental subjects. The subjects were divided into groups and played a series …

We report a laboratory experiment that enables us to distinguish preferences for altruism (concerning tradeoffs between … preferences. We find that both social preferences and preferences for altruism are highly heterogeneous, ranging from utilitarian …

We test whether and, if so, how incentives to promote pro-social behavior affect the extent to which it spills over to … subsequent charitable giving. To do so, we conduct a two-period artefactual field experiment to study repeated donation decisions … of more than 700 participants. We vary how participants’ first pro-social behavior is incentivized by a wide range of …

) distinguishes three basic categories of motives underlying the act of giving: altruism, egoism and investment. The paper follows on …

. Consistent with our hypothesis, we find that trait self-control exhibits a positive and significant correlation with pro-social …

formation, and reproductive externalities. -- Altruism ; spite ; externalities ; conformity ; fixation ; signalling …

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 prevalence and the consistency of consequentialist and deontological … supplemented with six classical self-versus-other choice tasks, allowing us to relate consequential/deontological behavior to …