Anyone Up for Helping the Fisherman's Wife? More Solidarity with Accidental Misery than with Man-Made Misery
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Anyone Up for Helping the Fisherman's Wife? More Solidarity with Accidental Misery than with Man-Made Misery
Frank, Björn | Li, Sha | Meisenzahl, Stephan | Minich, Heike | Muraro, Nina | de Pinto, Marco | Roth, Duncan | Saenger, Christoph | Saniter, Nils
Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, Vol. 131 (2011), Iss. 4 : pp. 569–580
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Björn Frank, Universität Kassel, IVWL, Nora-Platiel-Str. 4, 34127 Kassel.
Sha Li, Universität Kassel, IVWL, Nora-Platiel-Str. 4, 34127 Kassel.
Stephan Meisenzahl, Phillips-University Marburg, Mikroökonomie, Universitätsstr. 24, 35037 Marburg.
Heike Minich, Universität Kassel, IVWL, Nora-Platiel-Str. 4, 34127 Kassel.
Nina Muraro, Universität Kassel, IVWL, Nora-Platiel-Str. 4, 34127 Kassel.
Marco de Pinto, Universität Kassel, IVWL, Nora-Platiel-Str. 4, 34127 Kassel.
Duncan Roth, Phillips-University Marburg, ECAR, Am Plan 2, 35037 Marburg.
Christoph Saenger, Georg-August-University Goettingen, Department for Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, 37073 Göttingen.
Nils Saniter, DIW Berlin, Mohrenstr. 58, 10117 Berlin.
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We experimentally examine the willingness to donate depending on whether „misery" has been randomly generated or self-inflicted by too high demands in bilateral negotiations. We find that randomness has a positive influence on the total amount of the donation. In the case of self-inflicted „misery", we observe that the subject who may be perceived to have caused the unfavourable situation receives significantly less than the supposedly innocent subject.