People sometimes avoid information about the impact of their actions as an excuse to be
selfish. Such “willful ignorance” reduces altruistic behavior and has detrimental effects in …

Social norms pervade human interaction, but their demands are often in conflict. To
understand behavior, it is thus crucial to know how individuals resolve normative tradeoffs …

Judges are human beings. Is their behavior therefore subject to the same effects that
psychology and behavioral economics have documented for convenience samples, like …

The term 'moral wiggle room'(MWR) is often used to describe features of social situations
that reduce the transparency between behaviors and their consequences. Previous …

Judicial decision-making has attracted a lot of interest in the experimental community. Over
decades, a rich literature has emerged. It has investigated to what degree judicial decision …

Although prosociality is a ubiquitous phenomenon, research on moral wiggle room shows
that people sometimes exploit certain situational characteristics as excuses and behave …

In everyday life, decisions do not always affect the decision maker but are sometimes
explicitly made on behalf of others. We investigate whether individuals weigh desirability …