Do people intervene to make others behave prosocially?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ackfeld, Viola; Ockenfels, Axel
• 署名单位: University of Cologne
• 刊物名称: GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0899-8256
• DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2021.03.005
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 58-72
• 关键词: Charity experiment; prosocial behavior; Autonomy; bans; incentives

摘要

We experimentally investigate people's willingness to intervene in others' decision-making in order to promote a charitable donation. We find that only a minority of those subjects who would donate themselves enforce the donation by banning the selfish choice from the decision-maker's choice menu. Bans are more acceptable if they are implemented only after the decision-makers could choose between the selfish and the prosocial option themselves. Also, many subjects decide against offering decision-makers a monetary incentive to switch from the selfish to the prosocial choice. We discuss potential hypotheses about underlying motivations for the (non-)usage of interventions, with a special focus on the hypothesis that interventions to promote prosocial choice are more acceptable the more they respect the autonomy of others. (C) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc.