Why do some people engage in costly bystander intervention against norm violations without any personal direct or indirect gains? The present study investigates justice sensitivity and moral emotions as determinants of such altruistic punishment. We propose that the individual strength of...

The present research investigates the role of intuitive mental processing on cooperation in experimental games involving structural inequality. Results from an experiment using conceptual priming to induce intuitive mental processing provide the first evidence that cooperation is promoted by...

In reaction to the monetary turmoil created by the financial crisis of September 2008, both legislative and constitutional reforms have been proposed in different Countries to introduce Commodity Money alongside existing National Fiat Currency. A thorough evaluation of the Economic consequences...

This dissertation addresses human decision making in justice-related contexts. Experiments involving second and third party fairness situations as well as consumer psychological contexts show how people care about justice. Further, individual difference measures (justice sensitivity) help to...

In Deutschland leben etwa 1,6 Millionen Familien, die von einem alleinerziehenden Elternteil geführt werden. Durch frühkindliche Betreuung und Ganztagseinrichtungen ergeben sich bessere Bildungschancen speziell für die Kinder aus diesen Familien. Ganztagseinrichtungen haben aber auch einen...