Guilt aversion in economics and psychology

Publication date: Available online 15 May 2019Source: Journal of Economic PsychologyAuthor(s): Charles Bellemare, Alexander Sebald, Sigrid SuetensAbstractWe 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.

Source: Journal of Economic Psychology - May 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research