Personal identity in the dictator game

Arbeitspapier

This paper aims to analize the role of personal identity in decision making. To this end, it starts by reviewing critically the growing literature on economics and identity. Considering the ambiguities that the concept of social identity poses, our proposal focuses on the concept of personal identity. A formal model to study how personal identity enters in individuals’ utility function when facing a Dictator Game decision is then presented. Finally, thisidentity-based utility function is studied experimentally. The experiment allow us to study the main parameters of the model, suggesting that we should move with caution when attributing identities to individuals.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Jena Economic Research Papers ; No. 2007,007

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Relation of Economics to Social Values ; Noncooperative Games ; Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
• Subject: personal identity ; dictator game ; game theory ; experiments ; Nichtkooperatives Spiel ; Verhandlungstheorie ; Persönlichkeitspsychologie ; Test

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Aguiar, Fernando ; Brañas-Garza, Pablo ; Espinosa, María Paz ; Miller, Luis M.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics
• (where): Jena
• (when): 2007

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/25582
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET