Mind the framing when studying social preferences in the domain of losses

Armenak Antinyan, Luca Corazzini, Miloš Fišar and Tommaso Reggiani ()

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, vol. 218, issue C, 599-612

Abstract: There is no consensus in whether monetary losses make individuals more generous or selfish. Utilizing a dictator game (DG), we study the impact of loss framing on altruism and find that dictators’ altruism is sensitive to the loss frame they are embedded in. In a DG in which the dictators share a loss between themselves and a recipient, the monetary allocations are more benevolent than in a setting without a loss and in a DG in which the dictators share what remains of their endowments after a loss. These differences are explained by the social norms the loss frames invoke.

Keywords: Loss; Framing; Altruism; Dictator game; Experiment; Social norms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D02 D64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2023.12.024

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