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Registration

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Study Withdrawn No
Intervention Completion Date December 30, 2018
Data Collection Complete Yes
Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization) 144
Was attrition correlated with treatment status? No
Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations 144
Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms 144
Is there a restricted access data set available on request? No
Program Files No
Data Collection Completion Date December 30, 2018
Is data available for public use? No
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Papers

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Paper Abstract An extensive literature documents that people are willing to sacrifice personal material gain to adhere to a moral motive. However, less is known about the psychological mechanisms that operate when two moral motives come into conflict. We hypothesize that individuals engage in “moral motive selection,” adhering to the moral motive that aligns with their self-interest. We test this hypothesis using a laboratory experiment that induces a conflict between two of the most-studied moral motives: fairness and truth-telling. Consistent with our hypothesis, our results show that individuals prefer to adhere to the moral motive that is more aligned with their self-interest.
Paper Citation Barron, Kai and Stüber, Robert and Veldhuizen, Roel van, Moral Motive Selection in the Lying-Dictator Game (2022). CESifo Working Paper No. 9911, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4215030 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4215030
Paper URL https://ssrn.com/abstract=4215030 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4215030
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