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Are happier people less judgmental of other people's selfish behaviors? Experimental survey evidence from trust and gift exchange games
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Drouvelis, Michalis and Powdthavee, Nattavudh (2015) Are happier people less judgmental of other people's selfish behaviors? Experimental survey evidence from trust and gift exchange games. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 58 . pp. 111-123. doi:10.1016/j.socec.2015.07.007 ISSN 2214-8043.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2015.07.007
Abstract
What determines people's moral judgments of selfish behaviors? Here we study whether people's normative views in trust and gift exchange games, which underlie many situations of economic and social significance, are themselves functions of positive emotions. We use experimental survey methods to investigate the moral judgments of impartial observers empirically, and explore whether we could influence subsequent judgments by deliberately making some individuals happier. We find that moral judgments of selfish behaviors in the economic context depend strongly on the behavior of the interaction partner of the judged person, but their relationships are significantly moderated by an increase in happiness for the person making the judgment.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics | ||||
Publisher: | Elsevier BV | ||||
ISSN: | 2214-8043 | ||||
Official Date: | October 2015 | ||||
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Volume: | 58 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 111-123 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.socec.2015.07.007 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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