Exploiting moral wiggle room: Illusory preference for fairness? A comment
We designed an experiment to test the robustness of Dana, Weber, and Kuang’s (DWK), 2007 results. DWK observed that, when participants were given a “costless” way — the click of a button — to ignore the consequences of their actions on others’ payoffs, they chose to remain ignorant and fair behavior...
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| description | We designed an experiment to test the robustness of Dana, Weber, and Kuang’s (DWK), 2007 results. DWK observed that, when participants were given a “costless” way — the click of a button — to ignore the consequences of their actions on others’ payoffs, they chose to remain ignorant and fair behavior diminished. By implementing a double-blind experiment together with a design that controls for alternative explanations for the observed behavior, we confirmed DWK’s findings. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1839cfe1df554f4e96036fa8af9af7992023-09-03T09:45:43ZengCambridge University PressJudgment and Decision Making1930-29752009-10-01446747410.1017/S1930297500004009Exploiting moral wiggle room: Illusory preference for fairness? A commentTara Larson0C. Monica Capra1University of Texas at DallasEmory UniversityWe designed an experiment to test the robustness of Dana, Weber, and Kuang’s (DWK), 2007 results. DWK observed that, when participants were given a “costless” way — the click of a button — to ignore the consequences of their actions on others’ payoffs, they chose to remain ignorant and fair behavior diminished. By implementing a double-blind experiment together with a design that controls for alternative explanations for the observed behavior, we confirmed DWK’s findings.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1930297500004009/type/journal_articledictator gamesexperimentsfairnessstrategic ignorance |
| spellingShingle | Tara Larson C. Monica Capra Exploiting moral wiggle room: Illusory preference for fairness? A comment Judgment and Decision Making dictator games experiments fairness strategic ignorance |
| title | Exploiting moral wiggle room: Illusory preference for fairness? A comment |
| title_full | Exploiting moral wiggle room: Illusory preference for fairness? A comment |
| title_fullStr | Exploiting moral wiggle room: Illusory preference for fairness? A comment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploiting moral wiggle room: Illusory preference for fairness? A comment |
| title_short | Exploiting moral wiggle room: Illusory preference for fairness? A comment |
| title_sort | exploiting moral wiggle room illusory preference for fairness a comment |
| topic | dictator games experiments fairness strategic ignorance |
| url | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1930297500004009/type/journal_article |
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