The broken chain: Evidence against emotionally driven upstream indirect reciprocity

Psychologists claim that being treated kindly puts individuals in a positive emotional state: they then treat an unrelated third party more kindly. Numerous experiments document subjects indeed ‘pay forward’ specific behavior. For example, are less generous after having experienced stinginess. This, however, is not necessarily driven by emotions. Subjects may also imitate what regard as socially adequate Here, I present experiment which imitation possible at the next opportunity to act with stranger: given either fun or annoying job, have decide whether be not. find although who job report negative emotions than those do person unkindly terms of passing on money.