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 …

We review the vast literature on social preferences by assessing what is known about their
fundamental properties, their distribution in the broader population, and their consequences …

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 …

Predictive algorithmic scores can significantly impact the lives of assessed individuals by
sha** decisions of organizations and institutions that affect them, for example, influencing …

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 …