Altruistic Economic Behaviors and Implicit Worldviews: A Progress Report

• Lee Sunyoun

  Faculty of International Studies, Meiji Gakuin University

• Kim Byung-yeon

  Department of Economics, Seoul National University

• Ug kwon Hyeog

  College of Economics, Nihon University

• Limd Hyoung-seok

  Korean Institute of Finance

• Ogaki Masao

  Department of Economics, Keio University

• Ohtake Fumio

  Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to study how the individual differences in implicit worldviews regarding categories versus relationships affect altruistic behavior towards parents, children and non-family members, using the survey data of Korea, Japan and the US. We found international differences that are consistent with Nisbett's theory that Easterners tend to use relationships more than categories compared with Westerners. We found statistically significant effects of implicit worldviews on some altruistic behaviors. We also found confidence in spiritual beliefs in explicit worldviews have significant effects on some altruistic behaviors.

Journal

• Journal of Behavioral Economics and Finance

  Journal of Behavioral Economics and Finance 6 (0), 88-92, 2013

  Association of Behavioral Economics and Finance

Keywords

• implicit and explicit worldviews
• categories
• relationships
• altruism

Details

• CRID: 1390282680322165632
• NII Article ID: 130004554951
• DOI: 10.11167/jbef.6.88
• ISSN: 21853568
• Text Lang: en
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