Guilt aversion in economics and psychology

Charles Bellemare; Alexander Christopher Sebald; Sigrid Suetens

doi:10.1016/j.joep.2019.05.002

Guilt aversion in economics and psychology

Charles Bellemare, Alexander Christopher Sebald, Sigrid Suetens^*

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Abstract

We investigate whether the concept of guilt aversion in economics is related to the psychological characterization of the same phenomenon. For trust games and dictator games we report correlations between the guilt sensitivity measured within a framework of psychological games most common in economics and the guilt sensitivity measured using a questionnaire common in psychology (TOSCA-3). We find that the two measures correlate well and significantly in the two settings.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Economic Psychology
Volume	73
Pages (from-to)	52-59
Number of pages	8
ISSN	0167-4870
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2019.05.002
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2019

Keywords

Guilt aversion
Guilt sensitivity
Laboratory experiment
Psychological game theory
TOSCA

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