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Front Psychol. 2019 Mar 01;10:337. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00337. eCollection 2019.

Experimentally Induced Empathy Has No Impact on Generosity in a Monetarily Incentivized Dictator Game.

Frontiers in psychology

Jan-Erik Lönnqvist, Gari Walkowitz

Affiliations

  1. Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
  2. TUM School of Governance, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
  3. Center Digitization Bavaria, Munich, Germany.
  4. Higher School of Economics, National Research University, Moscow, Russia.

PMID: 30881325 PMCID: PMC6405521 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00337

Abstract

In a monetarily incentivized Dictator Game, we expected Dictators' empathy toward the Recipients to cause more pro-social allocations. Empathy was experimentally induced via a commonly used perspective taking task. Dictators (

Keywords: altruism; dictator game; empathy; experimental economics; generosity

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