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Generous with individuals and selfish to the masses

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2022
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Alós-Ferrer, C., García-Segarra, J., & Ritschel, A. (2022). Generous with individuals and selfish to the masses. Nature Human Behaviour, 6(1), 88–96. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01170-0

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The seemingly rampant economic selfishness suggested by many recent corporate scandals is at odds with empirical results from behavioural economics, which demonstrate high levels of prosocial behaviour in bilateral interactions and low levels of dishonest behaviour. We design an experimental setting, the ‘Big Robber’ game, where a ‘robber’ can obtain a large personal gain by appropriating the earnings of a large group of ‘victims’. In a large laboratory experiment (N = 640), more than half of all robbers took as much as possible and a

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6

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1

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88

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96

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Journal Article

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Discipline-based scholarship (basic research)

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English

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2022-01-01

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2021-08-30

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2397-3374

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Green

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merlin-id:21469

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784 since deposited on 2021-08-30
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204 since deposited on 2021-08-30
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Alós-Ferrer, C., García-Segarra, J., & Ritschel, A. (2022). Generous with individuals and selfish to the masses. Nature Human Behaviour, 6(1), 88–96. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01170-0

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