Hyper-altruistic behavior vanishes with high stakes
dc.contributor.author | Branas-Garza, Pablo | |
dc.contributor.author | Jorrat, Diego | |
dc.contributor.author | Kovářík, Jaromír | |
dc.contributor.author | López, María | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-04-04T10:00:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-04-04T10:00:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.description.abstract-translated | Using an incentivized experiment with statistical power, this paper explores the role of stakes in charitable giving of lottery prizes, where subjects commit to donate a fraction of the prize before they learn the outcome of the lottery. We study three stake levels: 5€ (n = 177), 100€ (n = 168), and 1,000€ (n = 171). Although the donations increase in absolute terms as the stakes increase, subjects decrease the donated fraction of the pie. However, people still share roughly 20% of 1,000€, an amount as high as the average monthly salary of people at the age of our subjects. The number of people sharing 50% of the pie is remarkably stable across stakes, but donating the the whole pie–the modal behavior in charity-donation experiments–disappears with stakes. Such hyper-altruistic behavior thus seems to be an artifact of the stakes typically employed in economic and psychological experiments. Our findings point out that sharing with others is a prevalent human feature, but stakes are an important determinant of sharing. Policies promoted via prosocial frames (e.g., stressing the effects of mask-wearing or social distancing on others during the Covid-19 pandemic or environmentally-friendly behaviors on future generations) may thus be miscalibrated if they disregard the stakes at play. | en |
dc.format | 12 s. | cs |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.identifier.citation | BRANAS-GARZA, P. JORRAT, D. KOVÁŘÍK, J. LÓPEZ, M. Hyper-altruistic behavior vanishes with high stakes. PLoS One, 2021, roč. 16, č. 8, s. nestránkováno. ISSN: 1932-6203 | cs |
dc.identifier.document-number | 729171700055 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0255668 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1932-6203 | |
dc.identifier.obd | 43933828 | |
dc.identifier.uri | 2-s2.0-85113734317 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11025/47309 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.project.ID | GA21-22796S/Difuze v sítích a sociální koheze: vliv koeficientu shlukování | cs |
dc.publisher | Public Library of Science | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | PLoS One | en |
dc.rights | © Creative Commons Attribution License | en |
dc.rights.access | openAccess | en |
dc.subject.translated | altruistic behavior | en |
dc.subject.translated | stakes | en |
dc.subject.translated | sharing | en |
dc.title | Hyper-altruistic behavior vanishes with high stakes | en |
dc.type | článek | cs |
dc.type | article | en |
dc.type.status | Peer-reviewed | en |
dc.type.version | publishedVersion | en |
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