Temptation and guilt

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Noor, Jawwad; Ren, Linxia
• 署名单位: Boston University
• 刊物名称: GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0899-8256
• DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2023.02.010
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 272-295
• 关键词: Guilt; Normative preference; temptation; Social preference; Perfectionism; welfare

摘要

Submitting to temptation gives rise to guilt, and the anticipation of guilt can generate guilt-avoidance. But guilt-avoidance may itself cause guilt. To account for this, we model guilt-avoidance as a temptation. The model unifies evidence pertaining to social preferences, perfectionism and information avoidance. While the social preference literature interprets moral hypocrisy as reflecting selfishness in true preferences, the model suggests that it may reflect a temptation to be selfish instead. (c) 2023 Published by Elsevier Inc.