Social responsibility promotes conservative risk behavior |
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Institution: | 1. George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States;2. Research Institute for Industrial Economics, Stockholm, Sweden;3. Telenor Research, Oslo, Norway;4. Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway;1. CGEMP, LEDA, CNRS, IRD, Université Paris-Dauphine, Université PSL, 75016 Paris, France;2. CEE-M, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, INRAe, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France;1. University of Bologna, Piazza Scaravilli 2, Bologna, 40126, Italy;2. Marche Polytechnic University, Piazzale Martelli 8, Ancona, 60121, Italy |
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Abstract: | Previous studies show that group risk taking can be more conservative than individual risk taking. Two common, but untested reasons for this greater caution are the influence of social responsibility and a tendency to conform to the preferences of others. We study changes in risk taking in simple settings, where another’s risk taking can sometimes be observed, and where decisions affect not only one’s own payoffs but sometimes also affect those of a passive, second party. We find that social responsibility leads to more conservative risk behavior in group decision making. Conformism has a more symmetric effect: observing the choice of another tends to lead both individual and social decisions toward whatever the other’s expressed risk preference is. Direct tests fail to link the social behavior we observe to the social preference for distributional fairness common in decision-making under certainty. |
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Keywords: | Lottery choice Risk aversion Social responsibility Conformism Social preferences |
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