The Role of Personal Involvement and Responsibility in Unfair Outcomes

A Classroom Investigation

Bibliographic Data

ID5917564
AuthorsPablo Brañas-Garza, Pablo Brañas–garza (0000-0001-8456-6009, Universidad de Granada, corresponding author), Miguel A Durán (0000-0002-2004-5586, Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad de Económicas y Empresariales, Campus El Ejido. AP. Of. Suc 4., E-29071 Málaga, SPAIN, corresponding author), María Paz Espinosa (University of the Basque Country), Marı́a Paz Espinosa (0000-0003-2189-4253, University of the Basque Country, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume21
Issue2
Pages225-248
Publication date2009-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRationality and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1043-4631 • E-ISSN: 1461-7358
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1043463109103900
OpenAlexW2136197340
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited19

This paper explores new motivations behind giving. Specifically, it focuses on personal involvement and responsibility to explain why decision makers give positive amounts in dictatorial decisions. The experiment is designed to uncover these motivations. Subjects face the problem of a dictator's allocation of an indivisible amount to one of two players; indivisibility creates an extremely unequal outcome and the dictator is given a chance to correct this outcome at a cost. The willingness to pay to correct the outcome is examined under different scenarios so that we learn about several features concerning preferences

Actuarial science · Dictator · Dictator game · Economics · Microeconomics · Political science · Sociology · Willingness to pay · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Law · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology

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