Empathy promotes altruistic behavior in economic interactions

What are the determinants of altruism? While economists assume that altruism is mainly driven by fairness norms, social psychologists consider empathy to be a key motivator for altruistic behavior. To unite these two theories, we conducted an experiment in which we compared behavior in a standard ec...

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Main Authors: Klimecki, Olga M., Mayer, Sarah V., Jusyte, Aiste, Scheeff , Jonathan, Schönenberg, Michael
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5005993/