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Social Preferences

Social Preferences is a theoretical construct in behavioral and experimental economics that categorizes individuals' intrinsic motivations to consider the well-being of others, fairness, reciprocity, and equity in their decision-making, distinguishing it from purely self-regarding preferences within models of rational choice.

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2017–2026

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Social Choice and Individual Values.

G. L. S. Shackle, Kenneth J. Arrow · Economica · 1951 · 7.9K citations

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Feeling and thinking: Preferences need no inferences.

Robert B. Zajonc · American Psychologist · 1980 · 7.8K citations · Full text

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Impure Altruism and Donations to Public Goods: A Theory of Warm-Glow Giving

James Andreoni · The Economic Journal · 1990 · 5.8K citations

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Gender Differences in Preferences

Rachel Croson, Uri Gneezy · Journal of Economic Literature · 2009 · 5.8K citations

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Trust, Reciprocity, and Social History

Joyce E. Berg, John Dickhaut, Kevin McCabe · Games and Economic Behavior · 1995 · 5.6K citations

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Authors

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  1. EF
    Ernst Fehr

    University of Zurich, Switzerland

    67 publications · 15.4K citations

    44

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  2. UF
    Urs Fischbacher

    University of Konstanz, Germany

    30 publications · 11.8K citations

    26

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  3. AF
    Armin Falk

    University of Bonn, Germany

    28 publications · 8.1K citations

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  4. GC
    Gary Charness

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    30 publications · 3.8K citations

    24

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  5. BT
    Bertil Tungodden

    Norwegian School of Economics, Norway

    33 publications · 3.5K citations

    24

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Institutions

2.8K

  1. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    73 h-index

    210 publications

    26.9K citations

  2. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    73 h-index

    222 publications

    38.8K citations

  3. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    66 h-index

    175 publications

    28.6K citations

  4. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    65 h-index

    238 publications

    51.6K citations

  5. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    63 h-index

    244 publications

    26.4K citations

  6. Harvard University Press

    Cambridge, United States

    62 h-index

    153 publications

    23.1K citations

  7. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    60 h-index

    189 publications

    24.6K citations

  8. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    58 h-index

    148 publications

    23K citations

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  1. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

    220 publications · 39.9K citations

    87

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  2. American Economic Review

    128 publications · 35.6K citations

    76

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  3. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 551 publications · 24.1K citations

    74

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  4. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

    168 publications · 15.1K citations

    63

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  5. Psychological Science

    90 publications · 14.1K citations

    57

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