主讲人：钟松发

时间：2021年11月4日 13:30

地点：腾讯会议ID：327910443

题目：Uncertainty Motivates Morality

主讲人简介：钟松发，新加坡国立大学经济系长聘副教授，人文与社科学院院长讲席。学术研究领域为行为经济学，专注于风险，时间和社会偏好的理解和应用，综合了实验经济学，神经学和基因学的研究方法。论文发表于American Economic Review，Econometrica, Management Science, Journal of European Economic Association, International Economic Review，Review of Economics and Statistics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Neuron等学术期刊。目前担任Management Science的副主编和 Theory and Decision的联合主编。

摘要：Uncertainty motivates a wide range of human behavior, as individuals are disposed to pursue a feeling of certainty. We propose that uncertainty motivates morality, and test the hypothesis by examining moral decisions when individuals face an uncertain situation compared with all degenerate certain situations. We find that uncertainty drives individuals to share more in a dictator game experiment and lie less in a dice game experiment. As standard models of choice under uncertainty cannot accommodate these observations, we propose a theoretical framework whereby individuals perceive a connection between the morality of their behavior and the outcome resulting from uncertainty.