Do previous good deeds to a third party make people more tolerant of bad deeds against them? An experimental investigation

Christel Ndodjang Ngantchou (1, 2, 3) , Gilles Grolleau (1, 4) , Lisette Ibanez (1)

1 LAMETA - Laboratoire Montpelliérain d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée
2 Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier
3 Centre for Population, Poverty and Public Policy Studies
4 BSB - Burgundy School of Business (BSB) - Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Dijon Bourgogne (ESC)

How do people react to a mix of good deeds to a third party and bad deeds against them? A modified ultimatum game shows that previous good deeds make responders substantially more tolerant to unfair proposals

Mots clés: experiment; licensing; punishment; reciprocity; social norms; experimental study; theory of games; profit

Mots clés: étude expérimentale; théorie des jeux; bénéfice; réciprocité; sanction; norme sociale

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Christel Ndodjang Ngantchou, Gilles Grolleau, Lisette Ibanez. Do previous good deeds to a third party make people more tolerant of bad deeds against them? An experimental investigation. Economics Letters, 2013, 121 (3), pp.364-368. ⟨10.1016/j.econlet.2013.09.015⟩. ⟨hal-01485485⟩