学术报告
报告主题:Asymmetric contagious effect of (dis)honesty: Self-serving bias in learning the social norm 报 告 人:邹文博 博士 时 间:2017年1月13日 上午10:00 主 持 人:白军飞 教授 地 点:经管学院行政楼313会议室 |
本次学术报告为食物与健康经济研究中心(C’FHER)系列学术报告第八期,由南开大学国家经济战略研究院史密斯实验室邹文博博士主讲。欢迎广大老师同学参加。 报告人简介:邹文博,女,2016年9月美国加州大学戴维斯分校发展经济学专业博士毕业,现就职于南开大学国家经济战略研究院史密斯实验室。研究方向为行为与实验。 报告内容:Social norms play an important role in determining individuals' moral behavior.. Existing experimental evidence suggests that observing others’ unethical behavior increases an individual's level of dishonesty. In this paper, we assess whether the flip side of dishonesty, i.e., honesty, has the same contagious effect. Using modified sender-receiver tasks and manipulating whether individuals receive information on other players' choices, and what kind of information they receive, we find that the social learning effect is asymmetric between honesty and dishonesty: people lie more when observing others lie, while they don’t reduce their own deception behavior when observing others being honest. We further investigate the learning process that underlies such an asymmetry using closed-form Bayesian posterior as the benchmark for comparison, and find supportive evidence of self-serving bias when updating new information on the social norm concerning deception. 中国农业大学经济管理学院食物与健康经济研究中心(Center for Food and Health Economic Research,C’FHER)成立于2016年1月。中心旨在用经济学的前沿理论与方法,探索食物消费、健康和人力资本发展的内在经济规律,服务国计民生。 C’FHER网站链接:http://cfher.cau.edu.cn |