Anyone up for helping the Fisherman's wife? More solidarity with accidental misery than with man-made misery
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Philipps-Universität Marburg
Abstract
We examine the willingness to donate depending on whether “misery” is random generated or self-inflicted by too high demands in bilateral negotiations. We find that randomness has a positive influence on the total amount of donation. In case of self-inflicted “misery” we observe that the subject who may have caused the unfavourable situation receives significantly less than the perceived innocent subject.
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altruism, bargaining experiment