If people are so self-interested, why do they give their money away to charities? One possibility is that people care about the level of the public good their donations provide. But this is not a good explanation: free-riding typically dominates donating even for people who care a great deal about the good in question, and even in groups that are substantially smaller than those in which people...

Strong bequest motives can explain slow asset run-down in retirement. Yet strong precautionary motives provide an equally compelling explanation, and it is hard to tease these two motives apart empirically. We develop a series of “strategic” survey questions that allow for bequest and precautionary motives to be separately identified. Our questions are developed in the context of a model that s...

The current study presents a conceptual framework for the moderation of the relationship between implicit and self-attributed motive congruency and psychological well-being. Consistent with this framework, we found evidence for such moderation effects for predicting life satisfaction in a secondary data analysis of a sample (N = 441) drawn from the Eugene-Springfield Community Sample longitudin...

Carbon leakage provides an efficiency argument for unilateral climate policy to differentiate emission prices in favor of emission-intensive and trade-exposed sectors. At the same time, differential emission pricing can be (mis-)used as a beggar-thy-neighbor policy to exploit terms of trade. Using an optimal tax framework, we propose a method to decompose the leakage motive and the terms-of-tra...

The investigation of teams and teamwork in cooperative (e.g., group brainstorming and team decisionmaking) and mixed-motive (e.g., negotiation) contexts has been carried out through a variety of lenses anddisciplines.One lens that has not beenused to rigorously theorize about andempirically investigate teams is that of ideologies. In this review, we juxtapose the study of a particular status-re...