Close your eyes and be nice: deliberate ignorance behind pro-social choices

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2017.02.010zbMath1396.91056OpenAlexW2583244529MaRDI QIDQ1672897

Serhiy Kandul, Ilana Ritov

Publication date: 11 September 2018

Published in: Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2017.02.010

zbMATH Keywords

self-imagedeliberate ignorancemoral wiggle roompro-social behavior

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social choice (91B14) Experimental studies (91A90)

Uses Software

• Z-Tree
• ORSEE

Cites Work

• Do I really want to know? A cognitive dissonance-based explanation of other-regarding behavior
• Exploiting moral wiggle room: experiments demonstrating an illusory preference for fairness
• Identity, Morals, and Taboos: Beliefs as Assets *

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