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 …

This article studies socially responsible behavior in markets. We develop a laboratory
product market in which low-cost production creates a negative externality for third parties …

Avoiding information about adverse welfare consequences of self-interested decisions, or
willful ignorance, is an important source of socially harmful behavior. To understand this …

Research yields ample evidence that individual's behavior often reflects an apparent
concern for moral considerations. A natural way to interpret evidence of such motives using …

Previous research suggests that children develop an increasing concern with fairness over
the course of development. Research with adults suggests that the concern with fairness has …

Participants in dictator games frequently avoid learning whether their choice to maximize
their own earnings will help or hurt the recipient and then choose selfishly, exploiting the …

Altruism is central to organizational and social life, but its motivations are not well
understood. We propose a new theoretical distinction that sorts these motivations into two …

Meat consumption is associated with a tension, for example the tension between love of
meat and concern about animal welfare or health. Based on the literature we propose four …

In our experiment, a dictator game variant, the reported outcome of a die roll determines the
endowment (low/high) in a subsequent dictator game. In one treatment the experimenter is …

Uncertainty about how our choices will affect others infuses social life. Past research
suggests uncertainty has a negative effect on prosocial behaviour,,,,,,,,,,–by enabling people …