Generosity and guilt: The role of beliefs and moral standards of others
| Autor: | Karen Evelyn Hauge |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Generosity
Economics and Econometrics Disappointment Equity (economics) Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Feeling guilt Moral standards Dictator game 0502 economics and business medicine 050207 economics medicine.symptom Psychology Social psychology Applied Psychology 050205 econometrics Behavioural economics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Economic Psychology. 54:35-43 |
| ISSN: | 0167-4870 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.joep.2016.03.001 |
| Popis: | Why are people generous? One reason may be to avoid feeling guilt – in terms of failing to meet others’ expectations or in terms of failing to meet others’ moral standards. The present article reports an experiment using the ‘dictator game’ while manipulating the dictators’ beliefs about the receivers’ expectations and moral standards. The results indicate that generosity is indeed driven by guilt-aversion: Dictators are more generous when the receiver expects more, and also when the receiver considers that dictators should, morally speaking, give more. If dictators were motivated by pure altruism or equity concerns, the receiver’s expectations or moral beliefs should not matter. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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