Do people try to avoid unpleasant information about the environmental consequences of their actions? If so, do they react with hostility towards others who provide the unwanted information? Fearing such hostility, do others abstain from providing the information? These are the questions we set out to explore by means of lab experiments presented here. To our surprise, and in stark contrast to related previous literature, we found few indications of willful ignorance. In a binary dictator game with an environmental charity as the recipient, an option to stay uninformed about the effects of one's actions for the charity was infrequently chosen, and did not significantly affect generosity. When another subject might choose to impose informatio...
In most laboratory experiments concerning prosocial behavior subjects are fully informed how their d...
Optimal decision making requires individuals to know their available options and to anticipate corre...
There is some evidence from field studies and natural experiments that levels of charitable donation...
How robust are social preferences to variations in the environment in which a decision is made? By ...
Participants in dictator games frequently avoid learning whether their choice to maximize their own ...
Are people strategically ignorant of the negative externalities their activities cause the environme...
Are people strategically ignorant of the negative externalities their activities cause the environme...
Experimental results suggest that subjects maximize a utility function that includes both getting th...
Previous experimental literature on reputation studies its effects in environments where they are of...
In most laboratory experiments concerning prosocial behavior subjects are fully informed how their d...
Experimental dictator games have been used to explore unselfish behaviour. Evidence is presented her...
International audienceWe experimentally study the social transmission of "inconvenient" information ...
It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable giving because they know little ...
People often have incomplete information about the consequences of their actions for the payoffs of ...
In most laboratory experiments concerning prosocial behavior subjects are fully informed how their d...
Optimal decision making requires individuals to know their available options and to anticipate corre...
There is some evidence from field studies and natural experiments that levels of charitable donation...
How robust are social preferences to variations in the environment in which a decision is made? By ...
Participants in dictator games frequently avoid learning whether their choice to maximize their own ...
Are people strategically ignorant of the negative externalities their activities cause the environme...
Are people strategically ignorant of the negative externalities their activities cause the environme...
Experimental results suggest that subjects maximize a utility function that includes both getting th...
Previous experimental literature on reputation studies its effects in environments where they are of...
In most laboratory experiments concerning prosocial behavior subjects are fully informed how their d...
Experimental dictator games have been used to explore unselfish behaviour. Evidence is presented her...
International audienceWe experimentally study the social transmission of "inconvenient" information ...
It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable giving because they know little ...
People often have incomplete information about the consequences of their actions for the payoffs of ...
In most laboratory experiments concerning prosocial behavior subjects are fully informed how their d...
Optimal decision making requires individuals to know their available options and to anticipate corre...
There is some evidence from field studies and natural experiments that levels of charitable donation...