Tobias Regner on Moral Emotions and Partnership
- Supervisor
- Tobias Regner - Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
- Date and time
- Wednesday, December 25, 2013 at 12:30 PM - Aula E, Palazzo di Economia
- Contact person
- Angelo Zago
- External reference
- Publication date
- July 28, 2011
- Department
- Economics
Summary
Actual behaviour is influenced in important ways by moral emotions, for instance guilt or shame (see among others Tangney et al., 2007). Belief-dependant models of social preferences using the framework of psychological games aim to consider such emotions to explain other-regarding behaviour. Our study links recent advances in psychological theory on moral emotions to belief-dependant models in economics.
We fi nd that - in addition to the positive evffect of second-order beliefs and promises - individuals' disposition to guilt (their proneness to respond in an evaluative way to personal transgressions) is an important determinant
of kind behaviour. This applies to private as well as public settings.
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