The Moral Costs of Nastiness
Klaus Abbink and
Benedikt Herrmann (benedikt.herrmann@gmail.com)
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Benedikt Herrmann: School of Economics, The University of Nottingham
No 2009-10, Discussion Papers from The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham
Abstract:
We introduce two variants of the one-shot joy-of-destruction minigame (mini-JOD). Two players are endowed with the same amount of money. They simultaneously decide whether or not to reduce the payoff of the other player at an own cost. In one treatment there was a probability that Nature would destroy the opponent’s money anyway. We test whether this feature reduces the moral costs of being nasty, and find that destruction rates rise significantly, despite the absence of strategic reasons.
Date: 2009-06
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