Alex Wagner, a behavioral economist from Zurich who works on moral issues, will be giving a paper on the disapproval of lying, looking at the influence both situational and personality factors. The talk will be in the Philosophy Board Room, 2.00pm - 4.00pm, Monday 10th November 2014. Abstract below.
The choice of honesty: An experiment regarding heterogeneous responses to situational social norms We conduct a laboratory experiment in which we expose participants to situational social norms of approval or disapproval of lying. Participants conform to the situational pressure, but there are important differences in individual reactions. We document that resistance to situational norms is predicted by proxies for agent-specific costs of lying. The extent and direction of the interaction of individual characteristics with situational norms and with economic incentives shed new light on why people act more truthfully than predicted by standard economic models. Collectively, the evidence from the experiment is convincingly accounted for by a model of self-signaling under situational pressure. _________________ Richard Holton Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge CB3 9DA Tel: +44 (0)1223 760827 http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/rjh221/index.html _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
