Moral emotions and partnership

Actual behaviour is influenced in important ways by moral emotions, for instance guilt or shame. The framework of dynamic psychological games allows the economic modelling of such emotions. Our experimental study uses psychological scales to measure individuals’ dispositions to experience guilt/shame and analyses the role these emotions play in a partnership situation that features moral hazard.

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Bracht, Jürgen ; Regner, Tobias
Published in:	Journal of Economic Psychology. - Elsevier, ISSN 0167-4870. - Vol. 39.2013, C, p. 313-326
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Social preferences \| Pro-social behaviour \| Experiments \| Psychological game theory \| Guilt \| Shame

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	C70 - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory. General ; C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; D03 - Behavioral Economics; Underlying Principles ; D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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