Moral distance in dictator games

We perform an experimental investigation using a dictator game in which individuals must make a moral decision --- to give or not to give an amount of money to poor people in the Third World. A questionnaire in which the subjects are asked about the reasons for their decision shows that, at least in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fernando Aguiar, Pablo Branas-Garza, Luis M. Miller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2008-04-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/jdm71218.pdf