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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 114-124 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics |
| Volume | 63 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Aug 2016 |
Abstract
We introduce an experimental setup to elicit subjects' materialistic, pro-social, and anti-social preferences. We find one third of the population exhibits mixed social preferences, choosing to give, to destroy, and to keep some payoffs. Most others are either materialistic, keeping all payoffs, or pro-social, giving some and keeping some, but not destroying payoffs. For individuals with mixed social preferences, giving and destruction are positively correlated, but do not seem to be influenced by payoff comparisons. We find that full information and experimenter demand may increase the extent of pro-social preferences, but do not affect the extent of anti-social preferences or the distribution of social types in the population.
Keywords
- Altruism, Fairness, Giving and destruction, Joy of destruction, Other-regarding behavior, Spite
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Psychology(all)
- Applied Psychology
- Social Sciences(all)
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)
- Economics and Econometrics
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In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Vol. 63, 01.08.2016, p. 114-124.
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T1 - Materialistic, pro-social, anti-social, or mixed - A within-subject examination of self- and other-regarding preferences
AU - Sadrieh, Abdolkarim
AU - Schröder, Marina
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