‘Do the Right Thing’ for Whom? An Experiment on Ingroup Favouritism, Group Assortativity and Moral Suasion

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ennio Bilancini ◽  
Leonardo Boncinelli ◽  
Valerio Capraro ◽  
Tatiana Celadin ◽  
Roberto Di Paolo
Keyword(s):  
Moral Suasion ◽  
The Right ◽  
Do The Right Thing ◽  
Ingroup Favouritism

scholarly journals "Do the Right Thing" for Whom? An Experiment on Ingroup Favouritism, Group Assorting and Moral Suasion

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ennio Bilancinio ◽  
Leonardo Boncinelli ◽  
Valerio Capraro ◽  
Tatiana Celadin ◽  
Roberto Di Paolo
Keyword(s):  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Design Experiment ◽  
Mixed Design ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Moral Suasion ◽  
The Right ◽  
Do The Right Thing ◽  
Ingroup Favouritism

In this paper we investigate the effect of moral suasion on ingroup favouritism. We report a well-powered, pre-registered, two-stage 2x2 mixed-design experiment. In the first stage, groups are formed on the basis of how participants answer to a set of questions, concerning non-morally relevant issues in one treatment (assortativity on non-moral preferences), and morally relevant issues in another treatment (assortativity on moral preferences). In the second stage, participants choose how to split a given amount of money between participants of their own group and participants of the other group, first in the baseline setting and then in a setting where they are told to do what they believe to be morally right (moral suasion). Our main results are: (i) in the baseline, participants tend to favour their own group to a greater extent when groups are assorted according to moral preferences, compared to when they are assorted according to non-moral preferences; (ii) the net effect of moral suasion is to decrease ingroup favouritism, but there is also a non-negligible proportion of participants for whom moral suasion increases ingroup favouritism; (iii) the effect of moral suasion is substantially stable across group assortativity and four pre-registered individual characteristics (gender, political orientation, religiosity, pro-life vs pro-choice ethical convictions).

: Do the Right Thing . Spike Lee.

1989 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Doherty
Keyword(s):  
Spike Lee ◽  
The Right ◽  
Do The Right Thing

Do the Right Thing

CFA Magazine ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 13-14
Author(s):  
Crystal Detamore
Keyword(s):  
The Right ◽  
Do The Right Thing

Do the Right Thing: The Imprinting of Deonance at the Upper Echelons

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Curtis L. Wesley ◽  
Gregory W. Martin ◽  
Darryl B. Rice ◽  
Connor J. Lubojacky
Keyword(s):  
Upper Echelons ◽  
The Right ◽  
Do The Right Thing

The Conundrum of Charitability: Reassessing Tax Exemption For Hospitals

1990 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-380
Author(s):  
David A. Hyman
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Health Care Environment ◽  
Care Environment ◽  
Sharp Focus ◽  
The Right ◽  
Do The Right Thing

Tax exemption is an ancient, honorable and expensive tradition. Tax exemption for hospitals is all of these three, but it also places in sharp focus a fundamental problem with tax exemption in general. Organizations can retain their tax exemption while changing circumstances or expectations undermine the rationale that led to the exemption in the first place. Hospitals are perhaps the best example of this problem. The dramatic changes in the health care environment have eliminated most of the characteristics of a hospital that originally persuaded the citizenry to grant it an exemption. Hospitals have entered into competition with tax-paying businesses, and have increasingly behaved like competitive actors. Such conduct may well be beneficial, but it does not follow that tax exemption is appropriate. Rather than an undifferentiated subsidy, a shift to focused goals will provide charitable hospitals with the opportunity and incentive to “do the right thing.”

Beyond Willpower: Strategies for Reducing Failures of Self-Control

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 102-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela L. Duckworth ◽  
Katherine L. Milkman ◽  
David Laibson
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Intervention ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Contemporary Research ◽  
The Right ◽  
Do The Right Thing

Almost everyone struggles to act in their individual and collective best interests, particularly when doing so requires forgoing a more immediately enjoyable alternative. Other than exhorting decision makers to “do the right thing,” what can policymakers do to reduce overeating, undersaving, procrastination, and other self-defeating behaviors that feel good now but generate larger delayed costs? In this review, we synthesize contemporary research on approaches to reducing failures of self-control. We distinguish between self-deployed and other-deployed strategies and, in addition, between situational and cognitive intervention targets. Collectively, the evidence from both psychological science and economics recommends psychologically informed policies for reducing failures of self-control.

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