Am I My Peer's Keeper? Social Responsibility in Financial Decision Making

Am I my peer's keeper? Social Responsibility in Financial Decision Making∗

Decision makers often take risky decisions on behalf of others rather than for themselves. Competing theoretical models predict both; higher as well as lower levels of risk aversion when taking risk for others, and the experimental evidence is mixed. In our comprehensive within-subject design, student subjects in the role of money managers have substantial social responsibility by taking invest...

Am I my brother's keeper?

Introduction: 1. This sermon logically and chronologically follows a sermon entitled, " Blood Is Thicker than Blood. " 2. That sermon exalts the precious bonds saints have in the family of God and in their own local churches. 3. This sermon identifies the great blessing and duties of fulfilling our roles in our local congregations. 4. Attending church to sing, hear a sermon, and then go home is...

'The story of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob" or "am I my brother's keeper?".

Presented is a case report of a violent sexual assault where the DNA profile obtained from an item of evidence was compared to a suspect's profile. The profiles did not match, but the sharing of such a large number of alleles raised the suspicion that perhaps the real perpetrator was a blood relative of the suspect. The investigators requested a sample from the suspect's brother, and a match wa...

Am I Afraid of My Peers? Understanding the Antecedents of Information Privacy Concerns in the Online Social Context

Privacy concerns about peer’s disclosure of one’s information (PCAPD) loom as social networking sites (SNSs) getting popular. PCAPD is different from and more complex than privacy concerns in e-commerce contexts. Based on the Communication Privacy Management theory, we propose that decisional control helps reduce a SNS member’ PCAPD, and that this effect is contingent on two factors – the overl...

Fear, Social Projection, and Financial Decision Making