Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/326877 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
UNU-MERIT Working Papers No. 2023-027
Publisher: 
United Nations University (UNU), Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), Maastricht
Abstract: 
Using two lab-in-the-field experiments, we study whether initial transgression promote subsequent anti-social behavior. In the first stage subjects participated in an experimental market game. In the second stage, subjects were given an opportunity to participate in antisocial experiment. We find that subjects who impose a negative externality on uninvolved third parties in the market game are also more likely to burn their partner's income in the second experiment. This finding is consistent with a conscience-numbing effect but could possibly also be explained by participants' preferences for consistency.
Subjects: 
Markets
negative externality
conscience numbing
moral licensing
moral cleansing
JEL: 
C93
D03
D62
D63
M14
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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