FACE-SAVING OR FAIR-MINDED: WHAT MOTIVATES MORAL BEHAVIOR?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cappelen, Alexander W.; Halvorsen, Trond; Sorensen, Erik O.; Tungodden, Bertil
• 署名单位: Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); SINTEF
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1542-4766
• DOI: 10.1093/jeea/jvw014
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 540-557
• 关键词: dictator games; social preferences; altruism; redistribution; RECIPROCITY; generosity; decisions; ECONOMICS; MARKET; price

摘要

We study the relative importance of intrinsic moral motivation and extrinsic social motivation in explaining moral behavior. The key feature of our experiment is that we introduce a dictator game design that manipulates these two sources of motivation. In one set of treatments, we manipulate the moral argument for sharing, in another we manipulate the information given to the recipient about the context of the experiment and the dictator's decision. The paper offers two main findings. First, we provide evidence of intrinsic moral motivation being of fundamental importance. Second, we show that extrinsic social motivation matters and is crowding-in with intrinsic moral motivation. We also show that intrinsic moral motivation is strongly associated with self-reported charitable giving outside the lab and with political preferences.