Altruism and Patience in Choices between Financial Losses - Experimental Findings

• Authors: Adam Karbowski , Bartłomiej Wiśnicki

Title variants

PL

Altruizm i cierpliwość w wyborach w kontekście strat finansowych – wnioski z eksperymentu

Abstracts

PL

Przy użyciu badania eksperymentalnego (n = 102) przeanalizowano związek między altruizmem (mierzonym za pomocą indywidualnych stop dyskontowania społecznego) a cierpliwością (mierzoną za pomocą dyskontowania w czasie) w warunkach strat finansowych. Dzięki algorytmowi miareczkowania (Holt, Green i Myerson, 2003) oraz wskaźnikowi powierzchni pod krzywą (Myerson, Green i Warusawitharana, 2001) możliwe było zastosowanie procedury dyskontowania do oceny altruizmu i cierpliwości jednostek. Odkryto, że altruizm i cierpliwość mogą, ale nie muszą być pozytywnie skorelowane w dziedzinie strat ekonomicznych. Okazuje się, że występowanie pozytywnej korelacji między altruizmem a cierpliwością (jak jest to przedstawiane w literaturze ekonomii behawioralnej w przypadku materialnych korzyści) zależy od struktury czasowej zadania dyskontowania (czasowego kontekstu wyboru). Gdy zarówno strata decydenta, jak i drugiej osoby ze skali społecznej jest opóźniona, nie obserwuje się dodatnich korelacji pomiędzy altruizmem a cierpliwością. To ostatnie odkrycie jest nowatorskie i poszerza wiedzę ekonomii behawioralnej na temat związku między altruizmem a cierpliwością w wyborach ekonomicznych.

EN

In this empirical study (n = 102), the authors set out to investigate the relation between altruism (measured with the use of individual social discounting rates) and patience (measured with the use of delays) under the conditions of financial losses. Thanks to the titration algorithm by Holt et al. (2003), and the Area Under the Curve indicator by Myerson et al. (2001), the study could apply discounting procedures to assess the altruism and patience of individuals. It was found that altruism and patience can be but do not have to be positively correlated in the domain of economic losses. It turns out that the occurrence of a positive correlation between altruism and patience (as often reported in the behavioural economics literature devoted to economic gains) depends on the temporal structure of the discounting task (temporal context of choice). When both the loss for the decision maker and another person from the social distance scale is delayed (shifted in time), positive correlations between altruism and patience are not observed. The latter finding is novel and nuances the behavioural economics knowledge on the relation between altruism and patience in economic choices.

Keywords

EN

altruism; patience; delay discounting; social discounting; behavioural economics

PL

altruizm; cierpliwość; dyskontowanie w czasie; dyskontowanie społeczne; ekonomia behawioralna

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Prace Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 67
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 64-78

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Adam Karbowski

• SGH Warsaw School of Economics

author

Bartłomiej Wiśnicki

• SGH Warsaw School of Economics

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15611/pn.2023.1.04

Biblioteka Nauki

2184057