Equality over intentionality: The normative social preferences of neutral third-parties.
This paper studies whether intentionality is more prevalent than fairness in social preferences. We do this by introducing a new three-player game in which the choices of neutral third-party arbiters are isolated from any monetary or strategic concerns. This allows us to study the normative preferen...
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| description | This paper studies whether intentionality is more prevalent than fairness in social preferences. We do this by introducing a new three-player game in which the choices of neutral third-party arbiters are isolated from any monetary or strategic concerns. This allows us to study the normative preferences of subjects, and to compare the relative weight they give to intentions and inequality. The results show that arbiters are mainly concerned with inequality, while other's (selfish) intentions seem to play a minor role in their preferences. This result is robust to a series of experimental designs, suggesting that the role of intentions in social preferences might be smaller than implied by the previous literature. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e5121027db3b4e7d94c7f5da571f320b2022-12-22T00:43:21ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032018-01-011311e020524010.1371/journal.pone.0205240Equality over intentionality: The normative social preferences of neutral third-parties.Ciril Bosch-RosaThis paper studies whether intentionality is more prevalent than fairness in social preferences. We do this by introducing a new three-player game in which the choices of neutral third-party arbiters are isolated from any monetary or strategic concerns. This allows us to study the normative preferences of subjects, and to compare the relative weight they give to intentions and inequality. The results show that arbiters are mainly concerned with inequality, while other's (selfish) intentions seem to play a minor role in their preferences. This result is robust to a series of experimental designs, suggesting that the role of intentions in social preferences might be smaller than implied by the previous literature.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6235270?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Ciril Bosch-Rosa Equality over intentionality: The normative social preferences of neutral third-parties. PLoS ONE |
| title | Equality over intentionality: The normative social preferences of neutral third-parties. |
| title_full | Equality over intentionality: The normative social preferences of neutral third-parties. |
| title_fullStr | Equality over intentionality: The normative social preferences of neutral third-parties. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Equality over intentionality: The normative social preferences of neutral third-parties. |
| title_short | Equality over intentionality: The normative social preferences of neutral third-parties. |
| title_sort | equality over intentionality the normative social preferences of neutral third parties |
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