Altruism and social integration
Branas-Garza, Pablo, Cobo-Reyes, Ramón, Espinosa, María Paz, Jiménez Jiménez, Natalia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9077-4824, Kovářík, Jaromír and Ponti, Giovanni
(2010)
Altruism and social integration.
Games and Economic Behavior, 69
(10)
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pp. 249-257.
ISSN 0899-8256
[Article]
(doi:10.1016/j.geb.2009.10.014)
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Abstract
We develop a two-stage experimental protocol by which i) we elicit the social network within a group of undergraduate students and ii) we measure their altruistic attitudes by way of a standard Dictator game. We observe that more socially integrated subjects are also more altruistic, as betweenness centrality and reciprocal degree are positively correlated with the level of giving, even after controlling for the effect of social distance, which has been shown to affect giving. Our findings suggest that social distance and network position are complementary determinants of altruistic behavior.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords (uncontrolled): | Altruism, centrality, social network experiments. |
Research Areas: | A. > Business School > Economics |
Item ID: | 10030 |
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Depositing User: | Pablo Branas Garza |
Date Deposited: | 13 Mar 2013 15:30 |
Last Modified: | 30 Nov 2022 01:02 |
URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/10030 |
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