Mind the framing when studying social preferences in the domain of losses

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FIŠAR Miloš ANTINYAN Armenak CORAZZINI Luca REGGIANI Tommaso

Year of publication 2024
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Economics and Administration

Citation
Web Mind the framing when studying social preferences in the domain of losses
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.12.024
Keywords Loss; Framing; Altruism; Dictator game; Experiment; Social norms
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Description There is no consensus in whether monetary losses make individuals more generous or selfish. Utilizing a dictator game (DG), we study the impact of loss framing on altruism and find that dictators’ altruism is sensitive to the loss frame they are embedded in. In a DG in which the dictators share a loss between themselves and a recipient, the monetary allocations are more benevolent than in a setting without a loss and in a DG in which the dictators share what remains of their endowments after a loss. These differences are explained by the social norms the loss frames invoke.
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