Volume : V, Issue : IV, April - 2015

Some effects of moral context in economicdecisionmaking in Mexican workers

Francisco A. Laca, Germ N P Rez 45 Verduzco

Abstract :

 Several economic experiments have tested limitations of Rational Choice Theory. In most of them, researchers have found that people tend to be “irrational” when they have economic interactions with other agents. Some studies that explore social and moral aspects in economic decision–making indicate that people have 

different kinds of motivations, which is not necessarily increase their own utility. In this paper we examine the effects 
of moral context in economic decision–making. Specifically, decisions of people who participated in a Dictator Game. 
A sample of 46 Mexican employees was divided in two groups.A moral context variable was introduced in the experimental group to assess whether the moral variable increased the altruism to the Receiver. Our results showed that 
when Dictators were in a moral context they were more altruistic in monetary distributions. An important contribution 
of this study is that it was conducted in non–university population, unlike the majority ofeconomic experiments.

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Francisco A. Laca Some effects of moral context in economicdecisionmaking in Mexican workers Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 4 April 2015


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