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Chakraborty, Anujit; Henkel, Luca - 2025

In prosocial decisions, decision-makers face interpersonal uncertainty - uncertainty about how their choices impact others' utility. We use three approaches to show how it shapes classic patterns of prosocial behavior like ingroup favoritism, merit-based fairness, and self-favoring behavior....

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Chapter 6 Reciprocity: Its Scope, Rationales, and Consequences

Kolm, Serge-Christophe - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 371-541). 2006

Reciprocity is one of the main basic social relations that constitute societies. It consists of being favourable to others because others are favourable to you (and not from an exchange in the strict sense). It rests on three possible rationales: (1) balance (comparison, matching), often related...

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Evolution of environmentally mediated social interactions under isolation by distance

Mullon, Charles; Peña, Jorge; Lehmann, Laurent - 2023

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Inequalities, social justice and the web of social interactions

Fleurbaey, Marc - In: Revue de philosophie économique 21 (2020) 1, pp. 19-63

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It's not you (well it is a bit you), it's me : self- versus social image in warm-glow giving

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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences : a study on altruism in primary school children

Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2014

We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …

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Who is in favor of affirmative action? : representative evidence from an experiment and a survey

Herzog, Sabrina; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; … - 2023

investigates preferences for affirmative action by combining causal evidence from an experiment on the role of self-serving motives … (e.g., related to an individual's altruism, fairness perceptions, concerns for efficiency, and political views). By …

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Theories of fairness and reciprocity : evidence and economic applications

Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2000

Most economic models are based on the self-interest hypothesis that assumes that all people are exclusively motivated by their material self-interest. In recent years experimental economists have gathered overwhelming evidence that systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests...

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Who is in favor of affirmative action? : representative evidence from an experiment and a survey

Herzog, Sabrina; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; … - 2023

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Who is in favor of affirmative action? : representative evidence from an experiment and a survey

Herzog, Sabrina; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; … - 2023

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