eprintid: 22449 rev_number: 30 eprint_status: archive userid: 1482 importid: 105 dir: disk0/00/02/24/49 datestamp: 2016-10-27 07:55:13 lastmod: 2024-04-05 07:37:01 status_changed: 2024-03-18 15:38:35 type: monograph metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Chen, Daniel L. creators_name: Schonger, Martin creators_id: daniel.chen@iast.fr creators_idrefppn: 241586631 creators_affiliation: Toulouse School of Economics; Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse; Centre national de la recherche scientifique creators_halaffid: 1002422; 506116; 441569 title: Social preferences or sacred values? Theory and evidence of deontological motivations ispublished: pub subjects: subjects_ECO abstract: Recent advances in economic theory, largely motivated by experimental findings, have led to the adoption of models of human behavior where a decision-maker not only takes into consideration her own payoff but also others’ payoffs and any potential consequences of these payoffs. Investigations of deontological motivations, where a decision-maker makes her choice not only based on the consequences of a decision but also the decision per se have been rare. We propose an experimental method that can detect an individual’s deontological motivations by varying the probability of the decision-maker’s decision having consequences. It uses two states of the world, one where the decision has consequences and one where it has none. We show that a purely consequentialist decision-maker whose preferences satisfy first-order stochastic dominance will choose the decision that leads to the best consequences regardless of the probability of the consequential state. A purely deontological decision-maker is also invariant to the probability. However, a mixed consequentialist-deontological decision-maker’s choice changes with the probability. The direction of change gives insight into the location of the optimand for one’s duty. We provide a formal interpretation of major moral philosophies and a revealed preference method to detect deontological motivations and discuss the relevance of the theory and method for economics and law. date: 2016-10 date_type: published publisher: TSE Working Paper official_url: http://tse-fr.eu/pub/31113 faculty: tse divisions: tse keywords: Consequentialism keywords: deontological motivations keywords: normative commitments keywords: social preferences keywords: revealed preference keywords: decision theory keywords: first order stochastic dominance keywords: random lottery incentive method language: en has_fulltext: TRUE subjectsJEL: JEL_D6 subjectsJEL: JEL_K2 view_date_year: 2016 full_text_status: public monograph_type: working_paper series: TSE Working Paper volume: 16-714 pages: 56 institution: Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole department: Toulouse School of Economics book_title: TSE Working Paper oai_identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:31113 harvester_local_overwrite: oai_set harvester_local_overwrite: department harvester_local_overwrite: faculty harvester_local_overwrite: pages harvester_local_overwrite: institution harvester_local_overwrite: creators_idrefppn harvester_local_overwrite: creators_halaffid harvester_local_overwrite: pending harvester_local_overwrite: hal_id harvester_local_overwrite: hal_version harvester_local_overwrite: hal_url harvester_local_overwrite: hal_passwd harvester_local_overwrite: creators_affiliation harvester_local_overwrite: creators_id oai_lastmod: 2024-03-15T14:34:50Z oai_set: tse oai_set: ut1c site: ut1 hal_id: hal-04155837 hal_passwd: 0tt6n5 hal_version: 1 hal_url: https://hal.science/hal-04155837 citation: Chen, Daniel L. and Schonger, Martin (2016) Social preferences or sacred values? Theory and evidence of deontological motivations. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-714 document_url: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/22449/1/Social_Preferences_or_Sacred_Values_ScienceAdvances.pdf