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Doing Good vs. Avoiding Bad in Prosocial Choice : A Refined Test and Extension of the Morality Preference Hypothesis

Tappin, Ben - 2018

confounds and open questions that bear on influential psychological theory. Specifically, their design confounds: (i …) preferences for efficiency with self-interest; and (ii) preferences for action with preferences for morality. Furthermore, their … the morally right thing. Inconsistent with influential psychological theory, however, our results suggest the preference …

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Social Versus Moral Preferences in the Ultimatum Game : A Theoretical Model and an Experiment

Capraro, Valerio - 2018

In the Ultimatum Game (UG) one player, named “proposer”, has to decide how to allocate a certain amount of money between herself and a “responder”. If the offer is greater than or equal to the responder’s minimum acceptable offer (MAO), then the money is split as proposed, otherwise,...

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Predict-AI-bility of How Humans Balance Self-interest With the Interest of Others

Capraro, Valerio; Di Paolo, Roberto; Pizziol, Veronica - 2023

Generative artificial intelligence holds enormous potential to revolutionize decision-making processes, from everyday to high-stake scenarios. However, as many decisions carry social implications, for AI to be a reliable assistant for decision-making it is crucial that it is able to capture the...

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Cooperation, Fast and Slow : Meta-Analytic Evidence for a Theory of Social Heuristics and Self-Interested Deliberation

Rand, David G. - 2016

current situation. Therefore, this theory predicts that deliberation will undermine pure cooperation (i.e., cooperation in …

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Hierarchical Invasion of Cooperation in Complex Networks

Vilone, Daniele - 2018

The emergence and survival of cooperation is one of the hardest problems still open in science. Several factors such as the existence of punishment, repeated interactions, topological effects and the formation of prestige may all contribute to explain the counter-intuitive prevalence of...

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Efficiency criteria for nudges and norms

Viscusi, W. Kip - In: Public choice 191 (2022) 3/4, pp. 465-482

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Accounting for context : separating monetary and social incentives

Bergh, Andreas; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2014 - This Version: October 7, 2014

This paper proposes a simple framework to model social preferences in a game theoretic framework which explicitly separates economic incentives from social (context) effects. It is argued that such a perspective makes it easier to analyse contextual effects. Moreover, the framework is used to...

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A Theory of Causal Responsibility Attribution

Engl, Florian - 2018

People frequently reward and punish other people if they perceive them to be responsible for the implementation of events that they like or dislike. However, the determinants of such responsibility perceptions are not well understood within economics. In this paper, I propose a notion of causal...

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How to Promote Cooperation for the Well-Being of Individuals and Societies

Capraro, Valerio - 2023

The most successful human societies are those that have found better ways to promote cooperative behaviour. Yet, cooperation is individually costly and, therefore, it often breaks down, leading to enormous social costs. In this article, I review the literature on the mechanisms and interventions...

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Increasing Altruistic and Cooperative Behaviour with Simple Moral Nudges

Capraro, Valerio - 2019

The conflict between pro-self and pro-social behaviour is at the core of many key problems of our time, as, for example, the reduction of air pollution and the redistribution of scarce resources. For the well-being of our societies, it is thus crucial to find mechanisms to promote pro-social...

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