The study’s primary focus is on examining fairness deliberations of bargainers in Germany and in China under symmetric and asymmetric bargaining power to understand whether they incorporate fairness into their decision process and, if so, how this affects bargaining outcomes. To this end, we...

We explore aversion to the use of algorithms in moral decision-making. So far, this aversion has been explained mainly by the fear of opaque decisions that are potentially biased. Using incentivized experiments, we study which role the desire for human discretion in moral decision-making plays....

We explore aversion to the use of algorithms in moral decision-making. So far, this aversion has been explained mainly by the fear of opaque decisions that are potentially biased. Using incentivized experiments, we study which role the desire for human discretion in moral decision-making plays....

Ethically, it is debatable whether we may program autonomous systems (AS) to actively impose harm on some to avoid greater harm for others. Responses to surveys on ethical dilemmas in the programming of self-driving cars have shown that people favor to impose harm on some people to save others...

Ethical outcomes in organizations can strongly be influenced by gender constellations and related stereotypical ascriptions in the workplace. In this paper, we investigate experimentally how people’s gender affects ethical outcomes in repeated same- or mixed-gender interactions. In our first...

The COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be exceptionally challenging for health care worldwide. Media and politicians currently pay attention to the ethical dilemma of distributing a prospective and potentially scarce COVID-19 vaccine. Meanwhile, physicians in intensive care units that are running...

Abstract Driven by methodological concerns, theoretical considerations, and previous evidence, we systematically test the validity of common dictator-game variants with probabilistic incentives. We include four approaches and compare them to a standard dictator game: involving fewer receivers...

Driven by methodological concerns, theoretical considerations, and previous evidence, we systematically test the validity of common dictator-game variants with probabilistic incentives. We include four approaches and compare them to a standard dictator game: involving fewer receivers than...

In a principal-agent setup, we investigate agents disclosure of conflict of interests revealing deliberate or undeliberate kindness and its affect on principals reciprocal behavior. To this end, we firstly introduce a theoretical model refering to Hart and Moore (2008) which captures aspects of...