Exploiting moral wiggle room
Experiments demonstrating an illusory preference for fairness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23328506 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jason Dana (0000-0003-3558-5208, University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author), Roberto A Weber (0000-0001-8133-8131, Decision Sciences (United States)), Jason Xi Kuang (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-80 |
| Publication date | 2007-07-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0938-2259 • E-ISSN: 1432-0479 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s00199-006-0153-z |
| OpenAlex | W2170711847 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 240 |
| References cited | 31 |
Altruism (biology) · Baseline (sea) · Dictator · Dictator game · Economics · Experimental economics · Generosity · Microeconomics · Political science · Preference · Public finance · Social preferences · Ultimatum game · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology
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Autoestima en Niños, Niñas y Adolescentes chilenos
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Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger
Outsourcing Corruption
Do People Avoid Morally Relevant Information? Evidence from the Refugee Crisis
Ignorance by choice
Waste management
Sensitivity to the evaluation of others emerges by 24 months
Choosing to know
On the Generality of Age Differences in Social and Nonsocial Decision Making
Is Self‐Compassion Selfish? The Development of Self‐Compassion, Empathy, and Prosocial Behavior in Adolescence
Images and norms
Selective exposure reduces voluntary contributions
The Merit Primacy Effect
Behavioral Ethics Meets Behavioral Law and Economics
Testing for Altruism and Social Pressure in Charitable Giving
Morality
Conflict of Interest
Emotions and Intergroup Relations
Behavioural Insights for Public Integrity
The Evolution of Reputation-Based Cooperation
The Normalization of the Radical Right
Children discard a resource to avoid inequity.
Inequality Aversion, Efficiency, and Maximin Preferences in Simple Distribution Experiments
The Dishonesty of Honest People
The Pluralism of Fairness Ideals
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A Meta-Analytic Review of Moral Licensing
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Information Avoidance
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Need-Based Justice
Political distrust
Demand for Commitment in Credit and Saving Contracts
Casting Doubt
Information Avoidance and Image Concerns
Recall distortion and past choices
Social norm uncertainty
Self-signaling in voting
Moral Licensing
Information avoidance in a polarized society
Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility
The detrimental effect of group size on institution formation
Making up for harming others — An experiment on voluntary compensation behavior
Do Anti-Corruption Messages Improve Public Service Delivery? Insights from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Burundi
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Belief in Altruistic Motives Predicts Prosocial Actions and Inferences
Different norms of sexual activity and consent seeking among college students
Reference dependence and the role of information frictions
Social Image and Incentive Mechanisms for Climate Adaptation
Cognitive conflict in willful ignorance
Self-serving regret
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The Future of Decisions From Experience
Information Avoidance
Motivated Cognition in Cooperation
Conceptions of Happiness and Prosocial Behavior
When team play matters
The role of leaders in inducing and maintaining cooperation
Absolute outcome or relative standing? The difference between making decisions for the self and other
Moral failure and the evolution of appearing moral
Liability, morality, and image concerns in product accidents with third parties
Not my responsibility
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Moral identity as a goal of moral action
Indulgent citizens
Letting third parties who suffer from petty corruption talk
An experiment on donations, personal stories, and bad luck
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Replication
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Seeing Through the Fog
“Proof Under Reasonable Doubt”
Norms as obligations
Privacy and Information Avoidance
Responding to (un)reasonable requests by an authority
Social and moral distance in risky settings
When do the expectations of others matter? Experimental evidence on distributional justice and guilt aversion
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Rational inferences about social valuation
What drives disagreement about moral hypocrisy? Perceived comparability and how people exploit it to criticize enemies and defend allies
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The Social Psychology of Procedural Justice
The Grammar of Society
A theory of sequential reciprocity
What you don’t know won’t hurt me
When Social Outcomes Aren′t Fair
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Inequality Aversion, Efficiency, and Maximin Preferences in Simple Distribution Experiments
Understanding Social Preferences with Simple Tests
Fair Shares
Fairness and the Assumptions of Economics
On the Nature of Fair Behavior
Dictator game giving
Giving According to Garp
Erc
Incorporating Fairness into Game Theory and Economics
Economics and Identity
Incentives and Prosocial Behavior
Impure Altruism and Donations to Public Goods
Moral hypocrisy
A focus theory of normative conduct
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Ten years of research on group size and helping
| Unique citing works | 240 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 10,91 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2026 (23) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 225 |