What Behaviors are Disapproved? Experimental Evidence from Five Dictator Games

The literature on social norms has often stressed that social disapproval is crucial to foster compliance with norms and promote fair and cooperative behavior. With this in mind, we explore the disapproval of allocation decisions using experimental data from five dictator games with a feedback stage...

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الحاوية / القاعدة:Games
المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Marc Vorsatz, Raúl López-Pérez
التنسيق: مقال
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: MDPI AG 2012-04-01
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4336/3/2/78
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الملخص:The literature on social norms has often stressed that social disapproval is crucial to foster compliance with norms and promote fair and cooperative behavior. With this in mind, we explore the disapproval of allocation decisions using experimental data from five dictator games with a feedback stage. Our data suggests that subjects are heterogeneous in their disapproval patterns, distinguishing two main groups: (1) Subjects who only disapprove choices that harm them, and (2) subjects who disapprove socially inefficient choices.
تدمد:2073-4336