Exploiting moral wiggle room: Illusory preference for fairness? A comment

By Tara Larson, Monica Capra. Judgment and Decision Making, 2009

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We designed an experiment to test the robustness of Dana, Weber, and Kuang’s (DWK), 2007 results. DWK observed that, when participants were given a “costless” way — the click of a button — to ignore the consequences of their actions on others’ payoffs, they chose to remain ignorant and fair behavior diminished. By implementing a double-blind experiment together with a design that controls for alternative explanations for the observed behavior, we confirmed DWK’s findings.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences, Safety Research

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