Moral values and increasing stakes in a dictator game - Kölner UniversitätsPublikationsServer

Schier, Uta K., Ockenfels, Axel ORCID: 0000-0003-1456-0191 and Hofmann, Wilhelm ORCID: 0000-0003-0295-4679 (2016). Moral values and increasing stakes in a dictator game. J. Econ. Psychol., 56. S. 107 - 116. AMSTERDAM: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV. ISSN 1872-7719

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DOI:10.1016/j.joep.2016.06.004

Abstract

Using data from a large representative US sample (N=1519), we compare hypothetical moral fairness values from the Moral Foundations Sacredness Scale with actual fairness behavior in an incentivized dictator game with either low or high stakes. We find that people with high moral fairness values fail to live up to their high fairness standards, when stake size increases. This violates principles from consistency theories according to which moral values are supposedly aligned with moral behavior, but is in line with temptation theories that question the absoluteness of morality values. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Creators	Email	ORCID	ORCID Put Code
Schier, Uta K.	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Ockenfels, Axel	UNSPECIFIED	orcid.org/0000-0003-1456-0191	UNSPECIFIED
Hofmann, Wilhelm	UNSPECIFIED	orcid.org/0000-0003-0295-4679	UNSPECIFIED