| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w16373
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 16373
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| The Power of Asking: How Communication Affects Selfishness, Empathy, and Altruism |
| James Andreoni; Justin M. Rao
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| 发表日期 | 2010-09-16
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| 出版年 | 2010
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | To understand the "pure" incentives of altruism, economic laboratory research on humans almost always forbids communication between subjects. In reality, however, altruism usually requires interaction between givers and receivers, which clearly must influence choices. Charities, for example, speak of the "power of asking." Indeed, evolutionary theories of altruism are built on human sociality. We experimentally examine communication in which one subject allocates $10 between herself and a receiver, and systematically altered who in the pair could speak. We found that any time the recipient spoke, giving increased - asking is powerful. But when only allocators could speak, choices were significantly more selfish than any other condition. When empathy was heightened by putting allocators "in the receivers shoes," altruism appeared as if recipients had been able to ask, even when they were silent. We conclude that communication dramatically influences altruistic behavior, and appears to largely work by heightening empathy. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics
; Welfare and Collective Choice
; Public Economics
; Public Goods
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w16373
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/574048
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James Andreoni,Justin M. Rao. The Power of Asking: How Communication Affects Selfishness, Empathy, and Altruism. 2010.
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