Chlaß, Nadine (Economist)

Güth, Werner (Director Strategic Interaction Group, Max-Planck-Institute of Economics, Jena; Professor of Economics, University of Jena)

Max Planck Institute of Economics (Jena)

Miettinen, Topi

2009-069

experiment

procedural fairness

procedural preferences

Most research in economics studies agents somehow motivated by outcomes. Here, we study agents motivated by procedures instead, where procedures are defined independently of an outcome. To that end, we design procedures which yield the same expected outcomes or carry the same information on others’ intentions while they have different outcome-invariant properties. Agents are experimentally confirmed to exhibit preferences over these which link to psychological attributes of their moral judgment.