Moral Emotions and Partnership

Juergen Bracht () and Tobias Regner

No 2011-028, Jena Economics Research Papers from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

Abstract: 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 experimental study links recent advances in psychological theory on moral emotions to belief-dependant models in economics. We find that - in addition to 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 pro-social behaviour.

Keywords: social preferences; other-regarding behaviour; experiments; psychological game theory; guilt aversion; guilt from blame; shame; beliefs; emotions; partnership; moral hazard; principal agent (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C70 C91 D03 D82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-06-28
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-evo, nep-exp, nep-hpe, nep-neu and nep-soc
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