The Dynamics of Dictator Behavior

Prosocial Behavior and the Individual Normative Standard of Fairness within a Dynamic Context: Experimental Evidence

“…Sass and Weimann (2015b) again reported the same during a series of repeated standard public good games. While Sass et al (2015c) examined how social distance influences behavior in repeated dictator experiments across different time spans, and they found that behavioral dynamics shift from less selfishness to greater levels of selfishness. They equally discerned that overall altruistic giving decreases over time and that this decline does not depend on the time span between repetitions.…”

Incentives and intertemporal behavioral spillovers: A two-period experiment on charitable giving

“…Evidence from the laboratory on repeated giving in dictator games also show a tendency to negative behavioral spillovers across periods. In Sass et al (2015) decisions are made repeatedly on a weekly basis over the course of four weeks within the context of a laboratory study. The authors provide evidence that particularly in weeks two and three reductions in giving are noticeable.…”

“…How do previously applied mechanism to attract donors affect the extent to which their behavior spills over to subsequent decisions in a charitable appeal? Although behavioral spillover effects, defined as the extent to which individuals' pro-social behavior in the past affects their current pro-social decisions, have been intensively studied (e.g., Gee and Meer 2019;Scharf et al 2017;Sass et al 2015;Schmitz 2019;Adena and Huck 2019), little is known about how the extent to which pro-social behavior spills over depends on the intervention applied in the initial decision. This strikes us as an important but understudied questions as the extent to which pro-social behavior spills over determines whether the effect of an intervention is persistent.…”