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Selfishness as a potential cause of crime : a prison experiment
Chmura, Thorsten; Engel, Christoph; Englerth, Markus - 2013
the recipient is a charity. Prisoners give more, not less. -- Inequity aversion ; crime ; dictator game ; selfishness …For a rational choice theorist, the absence of crime is more difficult to explain than its presence. Arguably, the … explain how imperfect criminal sanctions deter crime. The critical component of the theory is aversion against outperforming …
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Selfishness as a Potential Cause of Crime - A Prison Experiment
Chmura, Thorsten - 2013
For a rational choice theorist, the absence of crime is more difficult to explain than its presence. Arguably, the … explain how imperfect criminal sanctions deter crime. The critical component of the theory is aversion against outperforming … the recipient is a charity. Prisoners give more, not less …
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At the mercy of a prisoner three dictator experiments
Chmura, Thorsten; Engel, Christoph; Englerth, Markus - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 10/12, pp. 774-778
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Greedy and selfish? : differences in fairness preferences of prospective lawyers and managers
Mertins, Vanessa; Warning, Susanne - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung : ZfP 28 (2014) 4, pp. 410-431
The question of whether lawyers and managers behave selfishly or fairly has inspired discussion for a long time. Empirical evidence, however, is sparse. Using data from an experiment with 359 law and business administration students, we investigate this question empirically and provide first...
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Large effects of small cues : priming selfish economic decisions
Snir, Avichai; Levy, Dudi; Wang, Dian; Chen, Haipeng; … - 2024 - Revised: April 21, 2024
Many experimental studies report that economics students tend to act more selfishly than students of other disciplines, a finding that received widespread public and professional attention. Two main explanations that the existing literature offers for the differences found in the behavior...
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Self-Interest and Equity Concerns : A Behavioural Allocation Rule for Operational Problems
Osório C., António M. - 2017
In many economic situations, individuals with different bargaining power must agree on how to divide a given resource. For instance, in the dictator game the proposer has all the bargaining power. In spite of it, the majority of controlled experiments show that she shares an important amount of...
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Divided in Morals, United in Selfishness : An Experiment
Kurschilgen, Michael J. - 2020
People use moral wiggle room to behave selfish. But does a narrow wiggle room necessarily produce better social outcomes? When people disagree on normative goals, economic theories of self-image predict that narrowing the moral wiggle room will make choices not only less selfish but also even...
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Strategic Self-Interest Can Explain Seemingly 'Fair' Offers in the Ultimatum Game
Wells, Jordan; Rand, David G. - 2013
Behavioral and economic analysis of law fundamentally depends on understanding what motivates individual actors. While it is often assumed that people care only about maximizing their own monetary payoff, recent experimental work has challenged this assumption. A canonical example involves...
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At the mercy of the prisoner next door: Using an experimental measure of selfishness as a criminological tool
Chmura, Thorsten; Engel, Christoph; Englerth, Markus; … - 2010
that reduce the degree of selfishness of their inmates? Using a tried and tested tool from experimental economics, we cast … calls for more refined versions of utility in rational choice theories of crime. Prisoners do not give less than average … improve their marks over time. This suggests that this correctional intervention also reduces selfishness. …
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Ashamed to be selfish
Dillenberger, David; Sadowski, Philipp - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 7 (2012) 1, pp. 99-124
We study a decision maker (DM) who has preferences over choice problems, which are sets of payoff-allocations between herself and a passive recipient. An example of such a set is the collection of possible allocations in the classic dictator game. The choice of an allocation from the set is...
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