The Desire to Influence Others

Authors

  • Abdolkarim Sadrieh
  • Marina Schröder

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24352/UB.OVGU-2018-499

Keywords:

altruism, joy of destruction, other-regarding behavior, giving and destruction, kindness, fairness, spite, envy

Abstract

We introduce the give-or-destroy game that allows us to fully elicit an individual's social preference schedule. We find that about one third of the population exhibits both pro-social and anti-social preferences that are independent of payoff comparisons with those who are affected. We call this type of preference a desire to influence others. The other two thirds of the population consist to almost equal parts of payoff maximizers and pro-socials. Furthermore, we find that full information and experimenter demand may increase the extent of pro-social preferences, but neither treatment affects the extent of anti-social preferences or the distribution of social types in the population.

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2018-09-18

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