How Does Empathy Affect Trade-Offs People Are Willing to Make Between Their Own and Other’s Income?
The research presented in this video focuses on the question how empathy affects economic choice-behavior. In order to refine existing models of decision-making, two different concepts of empathy “imagine-self” and “imagine-other”, the latter requiring a higher level of sophistication, were included in game theoretic models. As JUSTIN VALASEK explains, it is established that empathy does not necessarily lead to more altruistic behavior and in some settings even the reverse is the case.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10132Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB)
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Original Publication
A Note on Empathy in Games
Jan Grohn
,Steffen Huck
,Justin Valasek
Published in 2014