Social Preferences and Self-Control
- Author(s)
- Alexander K. Wagner, Anja Achtziger, Carlos Alos-Ferrer
- Abstract
We provide new evidence on the impact of diminished self-control on social preferences in the ultimatum game. In a sample of German university students (N=312), depleted proposers made lower offers, and depleted responders rejected unfair offers as often as non-depleted ones. This agrees with previous evidence on the Dictator Game but stands in contrast with a previous study with a sample of Spanish university students. A possible explanation is that selfish motives are the default mode of behavior, but there is individual heterogeneity on whether strategic fairness (fear of rejection) can overcome them.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Economics, Vienna Center for Experimental Economics
- External organisation(s)
- Universität Zürich (UZH), Zeppelin Universität
- Journal
- Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
- Volume
- 74
- Pages
- 161-166
- No. of pages
- 6
- ISSN
- 2214-8043
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2018.04.009
- Publication date
- 06-2018
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 502045 Behavioural economics
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Social Sciences, Economics and Econometrics, Applied Psychology
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/a0ef9f3b-4891-4331-858c-a61d1bb84736