RIEB Seminar
RIEB Seminar
RIEB Seminar
Jointly supported by Rokkodai Theory Seminar
| Date & Time | Wednesday, July 24, 2019, 3:00pm-4:30pm |
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| Place | Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor) |
| Intended Audience | Faculties, Graduate Students and People with Equivalent Knowledge |
| Language | English |
3:00pm-4:30pm
- Topics
- Two-Stage Moral Behaviors: Some New Evidence from Lab Experiments
- Speaker
- Xiangdong QIN (Antai College of Economics & Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University / RIEB, Kobe University)
- Abstruct
- Moral behavior is an integral part of economic interactions. We conducted a series of lab experiments studying intertemporal choices that conform to different paths of moral regularities. Our experimental findings indicate that the effect of "moral licensing" is significantly stronger in the "immediate" sequence of moral behavior, while "moral consistency" or "conformity" is more salient in "delayed" sequence (with a cooling period) of moral behavior. In terms of immoral choices made in the first stage, neither "immediate" sequence nor does "delayed" sequence alter the subjects' subsequent behaviors, implying strong consistence in immoral behaviors over time. Our experimental results have provided new empirical evidence to the investigation about intertemporal moral choices.