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Us and them : distributional preferences in small and large group

Schumacher, Heiner; Kesternich, Iris; Kosfeld, Michael; … - 2014

We analyze distributional preferences in games in which a decider chooses the provision of a good that benefits a receiver and creates costs for a group of payers. The average decider takes into account the welfare of all parties and has concerns for efficiency. However, she attaches similar...

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A theory of causal responsibility attribution

Engl, Florian - 2022

People often act out of a desire to be responsible for good and not for bad events. Similarly, people frequently reward and punish other people if they perceive them to be responsible for the implementation of events that they like or dislike. When the implementation of an event depends on the...

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The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence

Fehr, Ernst; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2011

; parochialism ; experiments with children and adolescents …

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Status inequality, moral disengagement and violence

Falk, Armin - 2017

the role of status inequality on violence suggests an important societal cost of economic and social inequalities. …

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Does willful ignorance deflect punishment? : an experimental study

Bartling, Björn; Engl, Florian; Weber, Roberto A. - 2013

This paper studies whether people can avoid punishment by remaining willfully ignorant about possible negative consequences of their actions for others. We employ a laboratory experiment, using modified dictator games in which a dictator can remain willfully ignorant about the payoff...

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Inequality of opportunity and income redistribution

Preuß, Marcel; Reyes, Germán; Somerville, Jason; Wu, Joyce - 2023

, and help to explain the gap between lab evidence on support for redistribution and U.S. inequality trends. …

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"It's not about the money. It's about sending a message!" : unpacking the components of revenge

Molńar, András; Chaudhry, Shereen J.; Loewenstein, … - 2020

We examine whether belief-based preferences - caring about what transgressors believe - play a crucial role in punishment decisions: Do punishers want to make sure that transgressors understand why they are being punished, and is this desire to affect beliefs often prioritized over distributive...

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Peer effects and social preferences in voluntary cooperation

Christian, Thöni; Gaechter, Simon - 2014

Social preferences and social influence effects ("peer effects") are well documented, but little is known about how peers shape social preferences. Settings where social preferences matter are often situations where peer effects are likely too. In a gift-exchange experiment with independent...

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Organizations, diffused pivotality and immoral outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013

This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...

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Fairness in winner-take-all markets

Bartling, Björn; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Ekström, Mathias - 2018

The paper reports the first experimental study on people's fairness views on extreme income inequalities arising from … winner-take-all reward structures. We find that the majority of participants consider extreme income inequality generated in …" fairness argument for no redistribution: the winner deserves all the earnings because these earnings were determined by his or …

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