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The opportunity to tell a white lie (i.e., a lie that benefits another person) generates a moral conflict between two opposite moral dictates, one pushing towards telling always the truth and the other pushing towards helping others. Here we study how people resolve this moral conflict. What...
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We explore the role of cognitive dissonance in dictator and public goods games. Specifically, we motivate cognitive dissonance between one's perception of “fair treatment” and self-interested behaviour by having participants answer a question about fairness. Utilizing two manipulations...
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There is a large body of evidence showing that a substantial proportion of people contribute positive amounts in public goods games, even if the situation is one-shot and completely anonymous. Clearly, this is in conflict with the prediction of neoclassic economic theory. One of the most...
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Evidence suggests that there are substantial and systematic differences in cooperation rates under varying framing conditions in social dilemmas. Several explanations of these differences have been presented. Some (e.g. McCusker and Carnevale, 1995; van Dijk and Wilke, 2000) argue that social frames...
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We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals' cooperation … novel test as to whether there are "types" of players who behave consistently with their elicited preferences. We find clear …
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We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals’ cooperation … novel test as to whether there are "types" of players who behave consistently with their elicited preferences. We find clear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003261927
Evidence of gender differences in cooperation in social dilemmas is inconclusive. This paper experimentally elicits unconditional contributions, a contribution vector (cooperative preferences), and beliefs about the level of others' contributions in variants of the public goods game. We show...
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We study the heterogeneity of preferences regarding the limited substitutability of environmental public goods vis-a-vis private consumption goods and how it affects the economic valuation of environmental public goods. We show theoretically that mean marginal willingness to pay for an...
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We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals' cooperation … novel test as to whether there are types of players who behave consistently with their elicited preferences. We find clear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783408
Our research investigates whether social preferences are stable across contexts in the field. We build a unique data set by recruiting participants from a low-income urban neighborhood to participate in a series of laboratory experiments. Their decisions are used to demonstrate the stability of...
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