On the interpretation of giving, taking and destruction in dictator games and joy-of-destruction games

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On the interpretation of giving, taking and destruction in dictator games and joy-of-destruction games

The literature on dictator [D] and joy-of-destruction [JoD] games demonstrates that people can be nice and nasty. We study, by way of an experiment with between-subjects and within-subjects features, to what extent behaviors are context dependent and consistent. We find that, for one-shot D and JoD...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Zhang, Lyla, Ortmann, A.
Format:	Working Paper
Published:	University of New South Wales 2013
Subjects:	Mach-IV test Dictator game Altruism Joy-of-Destruction game Nastiness Efficiency considerations
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/62388

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