Affect and fairness : Dictator games under cognitive load

Schulz, Jonathan; Fischbacher, Urs; Thöni, Christian; Utikal, Verena

Affect and fairness : Dictator games under cognitive load

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Datum

2011

Autor:innen

Schulz, Jonathan

Fischbacher, Urs

Thöni, Christian

Utikal, Verena

Open Access-Veröffentlichung

Open Access Green

Sammlungen

Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Publikationstyp

Working Paper/Technical Report

Publikationsstatus

Published

Zusammenfassung

We investigate the role of affect and deliberation on social preferences. In our
laboratory experiment subjects decide on a series of mini Dictator games while they are under varying degrees of cognitive load. The cognitive load is intended to decrease deliberation and therefore enhance the influence of affect on behavior. In each game subjects have two options: they can decide between a fair or an unfair allocation. We find that subjects in a high-load condition are more generous - they more often choose the fair allocation than subjects in a
low-load condition. The series of mini Dictator games also allows us to investigate how subjects react to the games’ varying levels of advantageous inequality. Low-load subjects react considerably more to the degree of advantageous inequality. Our results therefore underscore the importance of affect for basic altruistic behavior and deliberation in adjusting decisions to a given situation.

Fachgebiet (DDC)

330 Wirtschaft

Schlagwörter

social preferences, cognitive load, affect and emotion, lab experiment

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ISO 690

SCHULZ, Jonathan, Urs FISCHBACHER, Christian THÖNI, Verena UTIKAL, 2011. Affect and fairness : Dictator games under cognitive load

BibTex

@techreport{Schulz2011Affec-16205,
  year={2011},
  series={Research paper series / Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut},
  title={Affect and fairness : Dictator games under cognitive load},
  number={68},
  author={Schulz, Jonathan and Fischbacher, Urs and Thöni, Christian and Utikal, Verena}
}

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