Do past good deeds to third party make people more tolerant to unfair behaviors?

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

1 Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier
2 Centre for Population, Poverty and Public Policy Studies
3 LAMETA - Laboratoire Montpelliérain d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée

How do people react to a mix of good deeds for others and bad deeds against them? Do they punish the bad deeds regardless of previous good deeds towards other people or are they more tolerant to bad deeds because of the good deeds done previously? A classroom experiment shows that previous good deeds make responders substantially more tolerant to unfair proposals which are usually refused.

Mots clés: experiment; licensing; punishment; social norms; reciprocity; human behaviour

Mots clés: comportement humain; économie expérimentale; réciprocité; tolérance

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Peguy Ndodjang Ngantchou, Gilles Grolleau, Lisette Ibanez. Do past good deeds to third party make people more tolerant to unfair behaviors?. 9. International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Economics (IMEBE 2013), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). ESP., Apr 2013, Madrid, Spain. ⟨hal-01506328⟩